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City of Palo Alto (ID # 3429)
City Council Staff Report
Report Type: Consent Calendar Meeting Date: 1/14/2013
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Summary Title: Second Reading Rezoning of 423-451 Page Mill Road
Title: Second Reading: Adoption of an Ordinance Amending the Zoning Map
to Change the Zoning Designation for 423-451 Page Mill Road from R-1 Single
Family Residential Zone to C-S Service Commercial Zone with Site and Design
(D) Review Combining District (First Reading: 12/10/2012, Passed: 9-0)
From: City Manager
Lead Department: Planning and Community Environment
Recommendation
Adopt the attached ordinance (Attachment A) on second reading.
Background
On December 3, 2012 the City Council approved the rezoning request from Single Family
Residential (R-1) to Service Commercial (CS), the amendment of the Comprehensive Plan Land
Use Designation from Single Family Residential to Service Commercial, and approved the
Negative Declaration. The City Council also added the Site and Design Combining District (D)
overlay to the subject properties to insure that any future commercial development of the site
would be reviewed by the City Council, such that the adjacent Single Family residential
properties would not be adversely impacted by new development. A redlined version of the
revised ordinance is provided in Attachment A. The Negative Declaration has been amended to
include the (D) Combining District.
The City Council also directed staff to investigate the need for any easements on the 423-451
Page Mill Road properties for the extension of the double left turn lane on
Page Mill Road at El Camino Real.
Discussion
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Oregon Expressway/Page Mill Road falls within the County of Santa Clara’s jurisdiction. The
City’s Transportation Division staff has discussed with County staff the potential need for
widening and improvements to the expressway in the vicinity of the site. The County’s current
plans and budgeted improvements plans include extending the shorter left turn lane about 70
feet to the east, which would not affect the need for additional right-of-way adjacent to the
rezoned site.
The County may, however, explore funding in the near future for further extension of the left
turn lanes. It appears that the most impactful scenario if such an improvement were desired
and funded would require removal of the parking on the south side of Page Mill Road and
relocation of the curb up to two feet toward the site.
The existing Public Right-of-Way between the face of curb and the property line is
approximately 12 feet wide. With a five-foot sidewalk and a five-foot planter strip, the two
additional feet needed would already be available to move the curb face back and not impact
the property. A worst-case scenario for the site is that the two foot of right-of-way would be
needed on the subject property.
The County expects to finalize conceptual improvements in the spring of 2013. The owner and
applicant are aware of the potential need for a two-foot wide easement across the frontage of
the subject properties, and will be incorporating that added setback into the conceptual site
and building design. The Planning and Transportation Commission and City Council will have an
opportunity to review and require appropriate setbacks and street frontage design with the Site
and Design review at that time.
Staff therefore believes that no action is appropriate currently regarding right-of-way or
setbacks, but that the project setbacks should be considered upon future Site and Design
review.
Attachments:
: Attachment A: Ordinance Rezoning 423-451 Page Mill to CS(D) (DOC)
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NOT YET APPROVED
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Ordinance No. _______
Ordinance of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Amending
the Zoning Map of the City of Palo Alto to Change the Zone
Designation for Approximately 0.6 Acre at 423-451 Page Mill
Road, from Single-Family Residential (R-1) to Service
Commercial with Site and Design Review Combining District
(CS)(D).
The Council of the City of Palo Alto does ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION 1. The City Council finds as follows:
A. The Planning and Transportation Commission, after duly noticed public hearings
on August 29, 2012 and on October 3, 2012 has recommended that the City Council rezone
approximately 0.60 acre of land at 423-451 Page Mill Road from “R-1 Single-Family
Residential” to “CS Service Commercial”;
B. The Planning and Transportation Commission has reviewed the facts presented at
the public hearing, including public testimony and reports and recommendations from the
director of planning and community environment or other appropriate city staff;
C. The Planning and Transportation Commission finds that rezoning the parcel to
Service Commercial (CS) zoning is in accord with the Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan, in that the
Comprehensive Plan Policy L-31 encourages the Cal Ventura area to be developed as a well-
designed mixed use area; and
D. The Council has held a duly noticed public hearing on the matter on December 3,
2012, and has reviewed the environmental documents prepared for the project and all other
relevant information, including staff reports, and all testimony, written and oral, presented on the
matter. City Council approved the Comprehensive Plan Amendment by Resolution, and added
the D combining district to the CS Zone district rezoning requested by the applicant.
SECTION 2. The Council finds that the public interest, health and welfare
would be furthered by an amendment to the Zoning Map of the City of Palo Alto as set forth in
Section 3.
SECTION 3. The Council hereby amends the Zoning Map of the City of Palo
Alto to place 423-451 Page Mill Road, 0.6 acre of land, within the “CS Service Commercial
Zone District with Site and Design (D) Review Combining District.”
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SECTION 4. The Council hereby finds that this rezoning is subject to
environmental review under provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
An environmental impact assessment and Negative Declaration were prepared and approved for
the project and it has been determined that, no potentially adverse impacts would result from the
rezoning of the property; therefore, the project would have no significant impact on the
environment.
SECTION 5. This ordinance shall be effective upon the thirty-first day after its
passage and adoption.
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ATTEST: APPROVED:
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City Clerk Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM: ____________________________
City Manager
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Sr. Assistant City Attorney ____________________________
Director of Planning and
Community Environment
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