REPORT TO PLANNING COMMISSION
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Recommended Action on a Phase 1 Development Area Plan for the Related Santa Clara Project
Report
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Related Companies has filed an application for a Development Area Plan (DAP) for the Related Santa Clara Project (Project). The overall Project of which this first DAP is a part was previously referred to as the "City Place Project" and this name appears throughout various City documents.
The Project includes the proposed development of up to 9.16 million gross square feet of office buildings, retail and entertainment facilities, residential units, hotel rooms, surface and structured parking facilities, new open space and roads, landscaping and tree replacement, and new/upgraded/expanded infrastructure and utilities. The City previously (on June 28, 2016) certified an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Project and approved a Planned Development - Master Community (PD-MC) Zoning.
Approval of a DAP is the next step in the land use entitlement process for the Project pursuant to the project site's PD-MC Zoning and the procedural review framework set forth in the Master Community Plan zoning document (MCP). The Applicant submitted the DAP 1 application and accompanying application materials as required under Appendix C of the Master Community Plan.
The proposed DAP 1 represents the first phase of the Project and would allow for the combined development of up to 1,047,000 square feet of gross building floor area consisting of new office, retail, hotel and residential serviced apartments built over a two-level underground parking garage, all generally on Parcel 5 as identified in the MCP. The Phase 1 plan would develop three blocks within the Parcel 5 area identified in the approved MCP as Block 5A, Block 5B and Block 5C. A copy of the Related Santa Clara Phase Plan Map from the MCP is attached showing the location of Phase 1.
The DAP 1 area is an approximately 14.3 acre area along the nort...
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