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Public Hearing to consider Design Review and Development Plan Amendment to allow an approximately 113,000-square-foot five-story hotel with 172 guest rooms, and an approximately 7,000-square-foot restaurant with coffee shop, located approximately 400-feet northwest of the corner of Harbor Bay Parkway and Bay Edge Road. The property is located within the C-M-PD, Commercial Manufacturing - Planned Development zoning district. The Harbor Bay Isle Environmental Impact Report was prepared for the development of the Harbor Bay Business Park Planned Development.
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To: Honorable President and
Members of the Planning Board
From: Henry Dong, Planner III
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Staff requests that the Planning Board hold a public hearing to consider a Design Review and Development Plan amendment application to construct a five-story hotel and two-story restaurant with a caf? at 2900 Harbor Bay Parkway. The project includes approximately 172 rooms, dining room with a lounge, meeting room, swimming pool, outdoor patio areas, and approximately 100 parking spaces for daily use by the Harbor Bay Ferry commuters. Staff is recommending conditional approval of the proposal.
BACKGROUND
The proposed project is located on the vacant 5.5 acre portion of the Esplanade development site within the Harbor Bay Business Park. The site is approximately 400 feet west of the corner of Harbor Bay Parkway and Bay Edge Road and immediately east of the Harbor Bay Ferry Terminal. A lagoon and residential neighborhood border the site to the north, and the property fronts onto Shoreline Park and the San Francisco Bay to the south. The property is zoned Commercial Manufacturing (CM) with a Planned Development (PD) overlay, and designated as Business Park by the General Plan.
On February 25, 2008, the Planning Board approved the original Esplanade Development Plan (PLN07-0061) to allow the construction of ten office buildings totaling 109,000 square feet on the 9.22 acre Esplanade ...
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