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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 Jan. 23, 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.
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Public Hearing items
Use Permit and Variance/John and Amy McGaraghan/103 Dunsmuir Way:
Request for a use permit to demolish an existing one-story, single-family residence and construct a new two-story residence with a basement on a substandard lot with regard to minimum lot area and width in the R-1-U (Single Family Urban Residential) zoning district. The project includes a variance to increase the height of the daylight plane to approximately 23 feet, 7 inches, where the daylight plane is measured from 19 feet, 6 inches.
Use Permit/Rorie and Jackeeline Overby/932 Peggy Lane:
Request for a use permit to partially demolish, remodel, and construct first and second story additions to an existing nonconforming, one-story single-family residence on a substandard lot with regard to minimum lot width and area in the R-1-U (Single Family Urban Residential) zoning district. The project would exceed 50% of the existing floor area and is considered equivalent to a new structure. The value of the proposed project would also exceed 50% of the existing replacement value in a 12-month period and requires approval of a use permit by the Planning Commission.
Use Permit/Andrew Young/225 Lexington Drive:
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 depth and area in the R-1-U (Single Family Urban Residential) zoning district. The proposal includes an attached accessory dwelling unit (ADU) which is not subject to discretionary review.
Study Session item
Study Session/Nick Menchel/333 Ravenswood Ave. (Parkline):
Study session for the Parkline Master Plan project to comprehensively redevelop an approximately 63.2-acre site located at 301 and 333 Ravenswood Avenue and 555 and 565 Middlefield Road. 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 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% 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. The EIR will study two potential project variants, one that includes an approximately 2 million gallon buried concrete water reservoir and associated facilities, and one that includes an additional 50 residential units for up to 600 dwelling units, inclusive of the standalone affordable housing building. The Planning Commission previously held a public hearing on the scope and content of the EIR as part of the 30-day NOP (Notice of Preparation) comment period that ended Jan. 9, 2023. The project site is zoned “C-1(X)” (Administrative and Professional District, Restrictive) and governed by a Conditional Development Permit (CDP) approved in 1975, and subsequently amended in 1978, 1997, and 2004. The proposed project is anticipated to include the following entitlements: General Plan Amendment (Text and Map), 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. Continued from the meeting of Dec. 12, 2022.