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File #: 25-166    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Public Hearing/General Business Status: Passed
File created: 1/27/2025 In control: Council and Authorities Concurrent Meeting
On agenda: 3/25/2025 Final action: 3/25/2025
Title: Public Hearing: Actions to Allow the Development of 1,792 Residential Units and Associated On- and Off-Site Improvements on Property Located at 2518 Mission College Boulevard, including an Addendum to the Freedom Circle Future Focus Area Plan Environmental Impact Report and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, General Plan Amendment, Rezone, and a Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map
Attachments: 1. Planning Commission Staff Report of February 19, 2025, 2. Public Comments Received, 3. Link to the Addendum to the Freedom Circle Future Focus Area Plan Environmental Impact Report.pdf, 4. Resolution Adopting the Addendum to the Freedom Circle Future Focus Area Plan EIR, 5. Resolution Approving the General Plan Amendment, 6. Resolution Approving the Rezone, 7. Resolution Approving the Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map, 8. Conditions of General Plan Amendment and Rezoning Approval, 9. Conditions of Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map Approval, 10. Project Data Table, 11. Freedom Circle Future Focus Area Plan Conformance, 12. Planned Development Document, 13. Link to Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map, 14. Vicinity Map, 15. POST MEETING MATERIAL, 16. Resolution No. 25-9423 (Addendum to the Freedom Circle Future Focus Area Plan (EIR)), 17. Resolution No. 25-9424 (General Plan Amendment), 18. Resolution No. 25-9425 (Rezone), 19. Resolution No. 25-9426 (Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map)
REPORT TO COUNCIL

SUBJECT
Title
Public Hearing: Actions to Allow the Development of 1,792 Residential Units and Associated On- and Off-Site Improvements on Property Located at 2518 Mission College Boulevard, including an Addendum to the Freedom Circle Future Focus Area Plan Environmental Impact Report and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, General Plan Amendment, Rezone, and a Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map

Report
COUNCIL PILLAR
Promote and Enhance Economic, Housing and Transportation Development

BACKGROUND
On April 22, 2024, Irvine Company (applicant) filed an application (File Nos. PLN24-00160 and PLN24-00213) for the subject proposal to redevelop the 25.74-acre parcel (APN:104-40-019) as a residential apartment community "project", with 1,792 residential units in five, five-story buildings, approximately 3,500 square feet of retail and 4.225 acres of public park land and associated on- and off-site improvements.

The project site is located south of Mission College Boulevard, encircled by Freedom Circle on the east, west and south boundaries, and has nearby access from Bowers Avenue and Great America Parkway exit on US Route 101. It is near Great America Theme Park, Santa Clara Convention Center and Levi's Stadium to the north and Santa Clara Square, an Irvine horizontal mixed-use development to the south. The site is currently developed with a business park containing 12 two-story partially vacant commercial buildings with surface parking and landscaping. The project site currently has a General Plan land use designation of Very High Density Residential (VHDR) within the Freedom Circle Future Focus Area and is zoned HO-RD (High-Intensity Office/Research and Development (R&D)). See Attachment 14 for a vicinity map.

The Freedom Circle Future Focus Area comprises 108 acres and is bounded by San Tomas Aquino Creek to the east, Great America Parkway to the west, Great America Theme Park to the north, and US Route 101 to the south ("Area"). On...

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