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Study Session - 2390 Mariner Square Drive Co-Living, Co-Working zoning Amendment. Applicant: Todd Jersey Architecture and Open Door Development. A Planning Board study session to consider a proposed Zoning Amendment to allow residential use on a 1.4 acre site currently zoned M-2 General Industrial and designated in the General Plan for Mixed Use. The site is located at the corner of Mariner Square Drive and Marina Village Parkway. No final action or decision is being considered. The proposed Zoning Amendment is subject to the California Environmental Quality Act.
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To: Honorable President and
Members of the Planning Board
From: Andrew Thomas, Assistant Community Development Director
Date: September 25, 2016
BACKGROUND
In July, Todd Jersey Architecture and Open Door Development ("the applicants") approached the City of Alameda to inquire whether the City of Alameda Planning Board and City Council would be willing to consider a Zoning Amendment for a unique co-working/co-living proposal on a 1.4 acre parcel located at the corner of Mariner Square Drive and Marina Village Parkway. Their co-working/co-living proposal for the Mariner Square Drive property is described and illustrated in Exhibits 1 and 2 to this report.
Based on initial staff review, the proposal would require a Zoning Amendment and environmental review. Amendments to the City's zoning laws and map are legislative actions. Projects that require legislative actions are not subject to the Permit Streamlining Act, which sets timelines for City decisions on development applications that are consistent with the site zoning and General Plan designation. Because this request may have an effect staff's ability to handle other anticipated requests or other Council priorities, staff is seeking direction from the Planning Board on the priority of this application.
Based upon the Planning Board's initial reaction to the proposal (Exhibit 1 and 2), the applicants will make t...
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