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PLN15-0198 - 1926 Park Street - Applicant: Bridgett Shank on behalf of Park Esquina, LLC. Public Hearing to consider approval of a landscape plan for a previously approved development project. The Planning Board approved a Design Review and Conditional Use Permit for a two-building mixed use development with a condition of approval that required final landscape plan approval by the Planning Board. This project is categorically exempt from further environmental review pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines, Section 15304 - Minor Alterations to Land.
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To: Honorable President and
Members of the Planning Board
From: David Sablan
Planner II
BACKGROUND
On July 25, 2016, the Planning Board approved a Design Review and Conditional Use Permit for a mixed use development at 1926 Park Street. The approved project consists of two individual buildings on a narrow infill lot, with small pockets of landscaping located throughout the lot. The Planning Board required that the applicant review the possibility of including street trees along the Park Street and Blanding Avenue frontages of the project, and conditioned the project to receive final approval of a landscape plan by the Planning Board.
DISCUSSION
Staff and the applicant reviewed the City's Master Street Tree Plan, adopted by the City Council in 2010, and determined that planting new street trees along Blanding Avenue and Park Street would not be possible due to separation requirements and existing subsurface utilities. The Master Street Tree Plan's Volume 2, Appendix 2 provides a list of structures and utilities within the public right-of-way that have a required separation from street trees (Exhibit1). The applicant provided a project site plan that identifies the required buffer areas, which essentially rules out the possibility of adding street trees in the public right-of-way (Exhibit2, Sheet 1).
The applicant is requesting approval of the on-site la...
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