DATE: September 28, 2021
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Assistant City Manager/Development Services Director
SUBJECT
Mission Crossings Development: Adopt a Resolution Approving a Request to Modify Conditions of Approval Related to Fees, Project Phasing, and Inclusionary Housing and to Add Conditions of Approval Related to Interim Site Improvements, Located at 25501 Mission Boulevard and Berry Avenue, Meritage Homes of California, Inc. (Applicant)/Meritage Homes of California, Inc. and Manchester Hotel Group (Owners)
RECOMMENDATION
That the Council approves the request from Meritage Homes of California, Inc., to modify the conditions of approval, Conditions #4 (Fees), #164 (Inclusionary Housing), and #166 (Project Phasing) and to add conditions of approval, Conditions #167 and #168 (Interim Site Improvements) by adopting the attached resolution (Attachment II and Exhibit A).
SUMMARY
The Mission Crossings site originally housed an automobile dealership and generated tax revenue to the City for a number of years. With the increased demands by auto dealers to have more visibility from freeways, many of the auto dealership sites in Hayward were abandoned. That said, there has always been a strong desire by the City to maintain commercial uses along the Mission Boulevard frontage, which is demonstrated in the adopted zoning and the identification of this project site as a catalyst retail site in the Economic Development Strategic Plan (EDSP).
The original Mission Crossings project proposed by developer, Meritage Homes of California, Inc. (Meritage), included plans for 140 townhome-style condos and a 93-room hotel along with additional retail space. As part of the original project, Meritage requested a reduction in the acreage of the commercial overlay zone to increase the number of housing units. As part of the final approved conditions of approval for the Mission Crossing project, the Council imposed a phasing condition, requiring the ...
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