B A Y V I E W
E M E R Y V I L L E L L C
February 3, 2022
Charles S. Bryant, Director of Planning and Building
City of Emeryville
1333 Park Avenue
Emeryville, California 94608
Re: Request for Limited Saturday Construction
Bayview Emeryville Apartments
6701 Shellmound Street
Mr. Bryant:
Bayview Emeryville LLC and JS Builders LLC are respectfully requesting permission to allow JS Builders and their subcontractors, Diablo Range for framing and Triad for fire sprinklers, to work on-site on the following four Saturdays: March 19 and 26 and April 2 and 9, 2022 from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each of those days.
The work that will take place on these Saturdays are rough framing of floors 5 and 6 and sprinkler work on those floors. The work does not involve the use of heavy equipment (other than the crane, which is silent). The workers will be using air compressors, hammers and power saws. The noise generated from this construction work will not be great.
We understand that the City is reluctant to allow work on Saturdays as the noise typically disrupts nearby residents. However, we submit that our project site is unique in this City.
There are no residents near our site—the nearest residential project is 600 feet away. Our site is surrounded by Shellmound Avenue and the train tracks to the east (with industrial uses beyond), the I-80 Freeway and Ashby Avenue off-ramp to the north and west, and Expressions College immediately to the south (with Public Storage and the currently unused office/life sciences building, The Atrium, just beyond). Even the homeless encampments that were along Shellmound and on the Caltrans right-of-way adjacent to our site are now gone.
We are requesting this Saturday time in order to make up time that has been lost due to Covid. With various of our subcontractors having experienced Covid outbreaks and then needing to take quarantine precautions, progress on the project has been slowed. Further, many of the workmen on the project, all hourly employees, have seen their take-home Exhibit A