File #: 2023-3282   
Type: Regular Agenda Item
Body: Planning Board
On agenda: 7/24/2023
Title: PLN23-0210 - 1715 Lincoln Avenue - Rezoning for General Plan Conformance - Applicant: Nick Portolese for Portman Enterprises, LLC. Public hearing to consider a recommendation to the City Council to amend the Zoning Map for the approximately 2,280 square foot property at 1715 Lincoln Avenue (APN 72-299-11) from C-1, Neighborhood Business District, to R-5, Residential District, in conformance with the property's General Plan Land Use Designation of Medium-Density Residential. CEQA Determination: Use of Alameda General Plan 2040 Final Environmental Impact Report, State Clearinghouse #2021030563. No further environmental review is required.
Attachments: 1. Exhibit 1 Draft Resolution, 2. Exhibit 2 Rezoning Map, 3. Exhibit 3 Excerpt from Alameda 2040 General Plan Land Use Diagram
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PLN23-0210 - 1715 Lincoln Avenue - Rezoning for General Plan Conformance - Applicant: Nick Portolese for Portman Enterprises, LLC. Public hearing to consider a recommendation to the City Council to amend the Zoning Map for the approximately 2,280 square foot property at 1715 Lincoln Avenue (APN 72-299-11) from C-1, Neighborhood Business District, to R-5, Residential District, in conformance with the property's General Plan Land Use Designation of Medium-Density Residential. CEQA Determination: Use of Alameda General Plan 2040 Final Environmental Impact Report, State Clearinghouse #2021030563. No further environmental review is required.

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To: Honorable President and Members of the Planning Board

From: Allen Tai, Acting Director of Planning, Building and Transportation

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Applicant has requested a Zoning Map amendment for an approximately 2,280 square foot property located at 1715 Lincoln Avenue. The current zoning is C-1, Neighborhood Business District. The Alameda 2040 General Plan land use designation for the site is Medium-Density Residential. Applicant is requesting to change the zoning to R-5, Residential District, in conformance with the General Plan designation.

Staff requests that the Planning Board adopt a resolution (Exhibit 1) recommending the City Council amend the Zoning Map to rezone the property from C-1, Neighborhood Business District to R-5, Residential District (Exhibit 2).

BACKGROUND
The property at 1715 Lincoln Avenue sits at the edge of the Grand Station Neighborhood Business District that developed around the then nearby streetcar stop. Based on a review of historical documents, the property was part of a larger parcel at the northwest corner of Lincoln Avenue and Minturn Street that was subdivided and developed with several single-family homes around 1940. Between the original construction of the home in 1940 and adoption of the Alameda Zoning Map in 1958, an addition was added to the front of the home to cre...

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