REPORT TO DEVELOPMENT REVIEW HEARING
SUBJECT
Title
PUBLIC HEARING: Action on the Architectural Review (PLN23-00570) for the Proposed Eight-Story Hotel with 225 Rooms at 1125 Coleman Avenue.
Report
File No.: PLN23-00570
Location: 1125 Coleman Avenue, a 1.76-acre parcel located at the southeast intersection of Coleman Avenue and Chastain Place; APN: 230-60-005; zoned Very High Density Mixed-Use (VDHMU)
Applicant: Todd Trekell
Owner: Tod Brokaw, LLC
Request: Architectural Review of a new 225 room, full-service, eight-story hotel totaling 154,179 square feet. The project includes on-site amenities, site landscaping and 155 parking spaces.
PROJECT DATA
The Project Data and Compliance Table is included as Attachment 2.
POINTS FOR CONSIDERATION
* The project site is in the Santa Clara Station Focus Area adjacent to high volume rail and traffic corridors. This Focus Area is envisioned as a gateway into the City and opportunity to expand the City's economic base with new office, hotel, retail and high density residential development to maximize the use of existing and planned transit facilities and operations, and reduce vehicle miles travelled on the local and regional roadway network.
* The proposed hotel is a part of the 21.4-acre Gateway Crossings Project that was approved in 2019. Gateway Crossings is designed as a transit and pedestrian-oriented mixed-use development consistent with General Plan goals and policies of the Santa Clara Station Focus Area; as it includes high density residential development, neighborhood serving retail, hotel, centrally located park, pedestrian connections to adjacent development and existing and planned transit services, and complete street sections with landscaped park strips and wide sidewalks.
* As a requirement in the Development Agreement for the Gateway Crossing Project, the hotel was conditioned to be built prior the to multi-family development in Phase II of the project.
* Building architecture for the hotel is a modern i...
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