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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 Dec. 12, 2022, 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.
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Public Hearing items
Use permit and Variance/Vineet Mehta/715 Laurel 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, Architectural Control, Major Subdivision, and Environmental Review/The Sobrato Organization/119-127 Independence Drive, 1205 Chrysler Drive, and 130 Constitution Drive (123 Independence Drive Project):
Request for a use permit, architectural control, major subdivision, and environmental review for a mixed use development in the R-MU (Residential Mixed Use) District. The project would consist of a major subdivision for 67 town homes, construction of a 316-unit apartment building, and an 88,750 square foot office building. The applicant is requesting a use permit for bonus-level development in return for community amenities. The proposed floor area ratio (FAR) is 141.65 percent where a maximum of 225 percent is allowed with community amenities. The project would consist of 15 percent below market rate housing units, including five percent offered to very low income, five percent to low income, and five percent to moderate income families. Environmental review is required to assess the potential environmental impacts of the project. The project is considered a housing project pursuant to Senate Bill 330.
General Plan Amendment, Zoning Ordinance Amendment, Rezoning, Conditional Development Permit, Development Agreement, Architectural Control (for potential future Design Review) Heritage Tree Removal Permits, Vesting Tentative Map, Below Market Rate (BMR) Housing Agreement and Environmental Review/Nick Menchel/333 Ravenswood Avenue (Parkline):
The proposed project would redevelop SRI International’s research campus by creating a new office/research and development, transit-oriented campus with no net increase in commercial square footage, up to 550 new rental housing units (with a minimum of 15% of the units available for below market rate households), new bicycle and pedestrian connections, and approximately 25 acres of publicly accessible open space. The Proposed Project would demolish all existing buildings, excluding Buildings P, S, and T, which would remain on-site and operational by SRI and its tenants. The Proposed Project would organize land uses generally into two land use districts within the Project site, including 1) an approximately 10-acre Residential District in the southwestern portion of the Project site; and 2) an approximately 53-acre Office/R&D (research and development) District that would comprise the remainder of the Project site. In total, the Proposed Project would result in a total of approximately 1,898,931 square feet, including approximately 1,380,332 square feet of office/R&D and approximately 518,599 square feet of residential uses (including up to 450 rental residential units). In addition, the Proposed Project would establish a separate parcel of land that is proposed to be leased to an affordable housing developer for the future construction of a 100 percent affordable housing or special needs project which would be separately rezoned as part of the Proposed Project for up to 100 residential units (in addition to the residential units proposed within the Residential District), and which is not included in residential square footage calculations as the square footage has not been determined.