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The Planning Commission will hold a public meeting on these items in a hybrid format via Zoom and at the City Council Chambers located at 751 Laurel St., on January 9, 2023, beginning at 7 p.m. or as near as possible thereafter, at which time and place interested persons may appear and be heard thereon. The Zoom link will be available with publication of the Planning Commission agenda, on the city website at menlopark.gov/agendas, not less than 72 hours in advance of the meeting. If you challenge this item in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City of Menlo Park at, or before, the public hearing. Written correspondence is typically considered a public record and may be attached to staff reports, which are posted on the city website.
Visit the city website for Planning Commission agenda, public hearing and staff report information at menlopark.gov/PlanningCommissionAgenda.
Public Hearing items
Use Permit and Variances/Thomas James Homes/69 Cornell Avenue:
Request for a use permit to demolish an existing one-story, single-family residence and construct a new two story residence on a substandard lot with regard to minimum lot width in the R-1-U (Single Family Urban Residential) zoning district. The request includes a variance to reduce the number of required off-street parking spaces from two compliant spaces to one compliant space. The project includes an attached ADU which is a permitted use.
Use Permit/Sharmila Subramaniam/598 Hamilton Avenue:
Request for a use permit to construct a new accessory dwelling unit (ADU) with a reduced front setback of approximately six feet, where 20 feet is required, and a rear setback of three feet, where four feet is required in the R-1-U (Single Family Urban Residential) zoning district. (Continued from the meeting of December 5, 2022)
Minor Subdivision/Menlo Maywood Property, LLC/8 and 10 Maywood Lane:
Request for a minor subdivision to reconfigure property lines and create three parcels from two existing parcels in the R-1-S (Single Family Suburban Residential) zoning district. Two of the resulting lots would be standard and the third new lot would be a substandard lot with regard to lot width.
Public Utility Easement Abandonment/Lisa Hmelar/1701 and 1715 Bay Laurel Drive:
Consideration of the abandonment of public utility easements along the rear of the properties to determine whether the proposed abandonment is consistent with the City’s General Plan. The request is associated with the development of a single-family residence.
Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Ordinance Amendments:
Senate Bill 9 (California Housing Opportunity and More Efficiency Act): Consider amendments to Title 16 (Zoning) to add Chapter 16.77 (Two-Unit Housing Developments) and amend Chapter 16.79 (Accessory Dwelling Units), and amendments to Title 15 (Subdivisions) to add Chapter 15.31 (Urban Lot Splits), in order to make City regulations consistent with applicable California law regarding urban lot splits and two-unit developments on properties in single-family residential zoning districts.