Title
Public Hearing to Consider Modification of UP-88-36 to Operate an Automobile Tire Service at 1200 Park Street to Revoke UP-88-36 to Terminate the Use Permit within 60 Days of Final Action by the City of Alameda
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To: Honorable President and
Members of the Planning Board
From: Andrew Thomas, Assistant Community Development Director
Date: May 8, 2017
Re: Public Hearing to Consider Modification of UP-88-36 to Operate an Automobile Tire Service at 1200 Park Street to Revoke UP-88-36 to Terminate the Use Permit within 60 Days of Final Action by the City of Alameda
Background
In July 2015, November 2015, and on November 28, 2016, the Planning Board held public hearings to address continued violations of conditions of approval for the use permit for tire repair services at 1200 Park Street. On November 28, 2016, staff cited the history of violations dating back to 2013, and recommended that the Planning Board amend the use permit to terminate in July 2017. After considering the staff recommendation and hearing from the property owner and the Big O Tire company (Big O) representatives, the Planning Board directed staff to continue to monitor the activities at the site and then schedule a new hearing in March or April of this year. Since the November 2016 public hearing, staff has witnessed and documented two violations of the use permit and received documentation from neighbors of additional violations.
Automobile repair and automobile tire services are prohibited by the Alameda Municipal Code (AMC) on properties that face Park Street. The current operation is permitted as a result of a 1979 conditional use permit, provided the use is in compliance with the use permit conditions, as amended over the years.
As documented in Exhibit 1, violations of the use permit conditions began as early as 1988, and have continued through March 2017. On-going violations of the use permit conditions resulted i...
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