REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on Early Consideration of a General Plan Amendment from Right of Way to Medium Density Residential for the 2.47 Acre Property Located at 2330 Monroe Street (Affordable Housing Project)
Report
BACKGROUND
On February 21, 2019, HKIT Architects and Freebird Development Company, LLC (Freebird) filed a project development plan application to amend the General Plan designation for the 2.47 acre parcel located at 2330 Monroe Street. The existing General Plan designation for the site is Right of Way and the site is zoned Single Family Residential (R1-6L). The subject site is a vacant City-owned property located at the southeast corner of Monroe Street and San Tomas Expressway (2330 Monroe Street). The proposed amendment would change the land use designation for the site to Medium Density Residential to allow construction of a multi-family affordable housing project.
Following an extensive community outreach process in 2018, the City issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the development of an affordable housing project on the subject property. At the September 11, 2018 meeting, the City Council approved the staff recommendation for selection of Freebird as the developer for the project and subsequently approved the Exclusive Negotiation Agreement (ENA) to allow the project to proceed on December 12, 2018.
Pursuant to the City's Early Consideration Policy for General Plan Amendments, the applicant has conducted community meetings.
DISCUSSION
The project site is a vacant City-owned parcel adjacent to single-family houses to the south, two-story multifamily residential across Monroe Street to the east, and by San Tomas Expressway to the west and to the north. The land appears as a right-of-way on the General Plan map and has no official General Plan designation. The City was designated to assume all housing assets (including land) after the redevelopment agencies (RDA) were dissolved on February 1, 2012, with the intent to prov...
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