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PLN14-0305 - 2350 Harbor Bay Parkway - Applicant: Mina Patel. Study Session for a Final Development Plan and Design Review to allow the construction of a 99-room hotel on the Harbor Bay Business Park shoreline. This project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15332 - Infill Development Projects.
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CITY OF ALAMEDA
Memorandum
To: Honorable President and
Members of the Planning Board
From: Andrew Thomas
City Planner
Date: April 13, 2015
Re: PLN14-0305 - 2350 Harbor Bay Parkway - Applicant: Mina Patel. Study Session for a Final Development Plan and Design Review to allow the construction of a 99-room hotel on the Harbor Bay Business Park shoreline. This project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15332 - Infill Development Projects.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
On February 23, 2015, the Planning Board held a public hearing to review the site plan and architectural design of a new hotel proposed for a vacant parcel located at 2350 Harbor Bay Parkway. At the hearing, the Planning Board raised a number of concerns about the proposed site plan, landscape plan, and parking. The Planning Board also provided extensive comments regarding the architectural design of the building, and concluded that the design required major changes.
Since the February 23, 2015 meeting, the applicant has been working to resolve the issues raised by the Planning Board. Staff believes that the applicant has sufficiently resolved all of the issues related to the site plan, landscape plan and parking plan. Each of these issues is discussed in the following sections of this report.
At the April 13, 2015 meeting, staff will ask the Planning Board if it concurs that the site plan, landscape and parking issues have been adequately resolved. However, staff is not prepared to recomme...
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