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PLN22-0127 - 2015 Grand Street - Vesting Tentative Map, Design Review, Development Plan, & Density Bonus - Applicant: Garrett Hinds on behalf Trumark Homes. Public hearing to consider an application for Vesting Tentative Tract Map No. 8654, Planned Development, Design Review, and Density Bonus to develop 90 townhomes units with 5 accessory dwelling units on a 4.14 acre parcel. The project will extend both Clement Avenue and the Cross Alameda Trail west of Grand Street to Hibbard Street. This project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to the CEQA Guidelines Sections 15332, In-Fill Development and 15183, projects consistent with a General Plan
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To: Honorable President and
Members of the Planning Board
From: Andrew Thomas, Planning, Building and Transportation Director
BACKGROUND
The project site is a 4.14 acre vacant parcel directly west of the Clement Avenue and Grand Street intersection. Clement Avenue currently terminates at this intersection and restarts on west side of the project site at Hibbard Street. The site is bounded by Fortmann Way to the north, Grand Street to the east, Hibbard Street to the west, and Ellen Craig Avenue, which is a private road, to the south. There are single family homes to the south and north of the project site. The City's Corp Yard and Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter are directly west of the site while Alameda Municipal Power's administrative building and corp yard and several small light industrial buildings are directly east of the project site.
The property was originally developed in 1952 as a petroleum mixing and packaging facility, and then as a distribution facility until closing in 2020. That same year all buildings and improvements were demolished and removed from the property. In November 2020 remedial action was taken to remove any potentially contaminated soil to the satisfaction of the Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB). ...
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