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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. (Continued from Planning Board Meeting of 9/25/17, report and exhibits have been revised)
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To: Honorable President and
Members of the Planning Board
From: Andrew Thomas, Assistant Community Development Director
Re: 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.
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 en...
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