800/808-814 San
Antonio Road
Planned Home Zoning Rezoning
May 6, 2024 www.cityofpaloalto.org
2 PHZ Application
• Council authorized in 2020
• Essentially a Planned Community application
• Intended to promote housing and inform future zoning regulations • Pre-established public benefit:
• Net new housing units
• 20% of the units are income restricted to average 80% AMI • For mixed-use projects, more net housing produced than needed to support commercial development
• Applicant allowed to seek modification to base-district design standards
1 PHZ/PC Process
• Prescreening – August 2022
• Formal application – January 2023
• Initial PTC hearing – June 2023
• ARB hearing(s) – August 2023, March 2024
• ARB recommendation – Rec. Approval w/Ad Hoc
• PTC hearing – April 2024
• PTC recommendation – Rec. Approval
• Council hearing – May 2024
Public comments are accepted at all public
hearings, and at any time throughout this process
BACKGROUND / PROCESS
4 ARB and PTC Review
ARB 3/7/24
• Unanimously approved recommendation, with recommendations to ad hoc committee
PTC 4/10/24
• Unanimously approved recommendation, with condition to change a two bedroom BMR unit to a three bedroom BMR unit (completed) 5 PROJECT LOCATION
Location
• San Antonio Road near Leghorn
Street
• In the Housing Incentive Program
(HIP) area
Other nearby projects
• 788 San Antonio (approved HIP)
• 824 San Antonio (under review HIP)
• 3997 Fabian (SB 330 pre-app)
• 762 San Antonio (Builder’s Remedy)
6 PROJECT OVERVIEW
A Planned Home Zoning (PHZ)/Planned Community rezoning to include:
• A new five-story building (60 feet) with 75 for-sale units, 20% (15) BMR units.
• The building includes two levels of below grade parking garage (148 total spaces)
• The project will require a Condominium Subdivision Map
7 PROJECT OVERVIEW
Requested Exceptions to CS Zoning Standards
• 3.0 FAR where 0.4-1.0 is allowed (2.0 for HIP)
• 65% Lot Coverage where 50% is allowed
• 60’8” height where 50 feet in height is allowed
• 1,078 sf of commercial use is proposed, where 1,500 sf is required • Below grade garage projects into Special Setback
• Parkland Dedication in lieu fees, where land dedication is required
8 BELOW MARKET RATE ALLOCATION
Proposed Public Benefits
• 20% actual, 26.4% weighed
affordable units
• Majority 2 and 3 bedroom
family, ownership units
• Future potential for bike lane
improvements
9 BELOW MARKET RATE ALLOCATION
Proposed BMR
• 20% actual, 26.4% weighted
affordable units
• Two 1-bedroom (29%),
ten 2-bedroom (19%),
three 3-bedroom (19%)
• Evenly allocated between the
floors
10 PROJECT RENDERINGS
11 PROJECT RENDERINGS
12 PROJECT RENDERINGS
13 STREETSCAPE
14 HEIGHT
Height Summary
• 60’8” to top of parapet
• 64’ to top of mechanical
enclosure, roof deck
amenity
Current Code Height
• 50 feet in CS Zone
• 12 ft allowance for roof
deck in HIP
• 15 ft allowance for
mechanical/elevator/etc.
• No Daylight Plane
15 POTENTIAL EASEMENT – AT PLACES MEMO
• In the PTC and ARB hearings, use of the Special Setback for future multi- modal improvements was discussed and supported
• Future need reflected on project plans
• Staff recommends adding a Condition of Approval to dedicate a Public Access Easement for this purpose, as drafted in the Supplemental Report
16 TREE REPLACEMENT
• There are 10 trees proposed for removal
• 7 trees proposed to be planted
• Equivalent of 24 trees will be paid in-lieu
• Urban Forestry’s in-lieu rate is $650/per tree, $15,600 for this project 17 PARKLAND DEDICATION FEES
• The Municipal Code requires parkland dedication for ownership projects with more than 50 units.
• For 75 units, 27,450 sf, or 0.63 acres would be required. • The project site is 38,194 or 0.88 acres
• No suitable land could be identified
• In Lieu fee estimated at over $4.08 million
18 • The previously certified 788 San Antonio Road and Housing Incentive Program Expansion EIR analyzed high-density housing development at this site and on other nearby parcels along San Antonio Road. • An Addendum has been prepared declaring that no new or more significant impacts would occur as a result of the project. • Project shall comply with all adopted mitigation measures.
CEQA REVIEW
19 RECOMMENDED MOTION
Staff recommends that Council take the following actions:
1. Consider the Addendum to the previously adopted
Environmental Impact Report
2. Adopt an Ordinance rezoning the subject site from Service Commercial to Planned Community/Planned Home Zoning as
recommended by the Planning & Transportation Commission
3. Adopt the Record of Land Use Action approving the Architectural Review, based on findings and subject to conditions of approval as recommended by the Architectural Review Board
EMILY KALLAS, AICP
Planner
[email protected]
650-617-3125
ARB AD HOC REVIEW 4/4/24
Changes Approved and Shown in Plans
• Increased FAR by 300 sf to improve hallway circulation • Total open space provided meets 150 sf per unit requirement • One private outdoor patio area no longer meets minimum dimensions, to maintain Special Setback
• Shared courtyard and roof deck design and circulation clarified • Slim vertical obscured glazing windows added in the bicycle storage area Still Under Review
• Alternatives to improve refuse circulation within the building • Ensuring design of below grade parking allows for landscape planting above
PROPOSED SITE PLAN
7 TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN AND ROOF PLAN
PARKING PLANS
ELEVATIONS
Rear
Front
ELEVATIONS
Left
Right
15 COURTYARD