DATE: June 14, 2016
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Development Services Director
SUBJECT
Title
Recommended approval and necessary actions of proposed project at 645 Olympic Avenue for twenty-three detached single-family homes on a 2.5 acre site; Fortbay Woods, LLC (Applicant); including a Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program.
Recommendation
RECOMMENDATION
That the City Council adopts the attached resolution (Attachment I ), adopting the Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND), Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP), and approving the Vesting Tentative Tract Map Application (PL2015-04833) with Conditions of Approval (Attachment Ia) ; and introduces the attached ordinance (Attachment II) approving the Zone Change Application (No. PL2015-04833) to build twenty-three detached single-family homes.
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SUMMARY
The proposed development would rezone the subject site from RS B4 Single Family Residential Special Lot Combining District, minimum lot size of 4,000 square feet, to a Planned Development District in order to construct a twenty-three unit, small lot, single-family detached residential neighborhood on approximately 2.5 acres. The proposed development is an infill project that replaces a nonconforming industrial use with a residential use that continues the existing pattern of development found within the surrounding single-family neighborhood. The proposed project is consistent with the density of the General Plan Land Use Designation of Limited Medium Density Residential and will add much needed inventory to the housing stock of the City of Hayward.
BACKGROUND
The proposed project consists of four parcels totaling approximately 2.5 acres. The site is bordered by Holyoke, Olympic, and Huntwood Avenues on the east, south, and west, respectively; and is bordered by multi-family residential to the north. The residential neighborhood to the east and so...
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