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PLN14-0305 - 2350 Harbor Bay Parkway - Applicant: Mina Patel. Public hearing for a Final Development Plan and Design Review to allow the construction of a 100-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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BACKGROUND
On February 23, 2015, the Planning Board held a public hearing to review the site plan and architectural design of a new five-story hotel proposed for a vacant parcel located at 2350 Harbor Bay Parkway, in the Harbor Bay Business Park. 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 proposal required a number of changes to both the site plan design and the architectural design.
On April 13, 2015, the Planning Board held a second public hearing to review a revised site plan and architectural design. At that meeting, the Planning Board indicated that the applicant and staff had satisfactorily addressed all of the site plan design and parking issues, but that the architectural design still required additional work.
Since the April 13, 2015 meeting, the project applicant, Ms. Mina Patel, hired a new architectural firm to improve the architectural design of the building. The current proposal incorporates the April 13, 2015 site plan and a new design for the architecture of the building.
ANALYSIS
The following analysis addresses the adequacy of both the proposed architectural design and the proposed site plan.
Architecture:
Since the April 13th meeting, the applicant and her architectural team have significantly revised the architectural design of the building. The revised design is shown in Exhibit 1 and is described by the architectural team as fo...
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