Oakland City Planning Commission                           AGENDA

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Colland Jang, Chair Anne Mudge, Vice Chair Mark McClure Nicole Franklin Doug Boxer Suzie W. Lee Michael Lighty

March 15, 2006 Regular Meeting

 

MEAL GATHERING      5:00 P.M.

Off Broadway Café & Catering, 416 15^th Street, Oakland. Open to the public at no charge. (Members of the public must pay for their own meals if desired.  Purchase of meal is not required to attend.)

 

BUSINESS MEETING   6:30 P.M.

                                                  

Hearing Room 1, City Hall, One Frank H. Ogawa Plaza

Persons wishing to address the Commission on any item on the agenda, including Open Forum and Director’s Report, should fill out a speaker card and give it to the Secretary “Agenda items will be called at the discretion of the Chair not necessarily in the order they are listed on the Agenda”.

Speakers are generally limited to two minutes at the discretion of the Chair. Applicants and appellants are generally limited to five minutes.

The order of items will be determined under "Agenda Discussion" at the beginning of the meeting. With the exception of Open Forum, a new item will not be called after 10:15 p.m., and the meeting will adjourn no later than 10:30 p.m. unless the meeting is extended by the Chair with the consent of a majority of Commissioners present.

Please check with the Planning Department prior to the meeting regarding items that may be continued.  Any agenda item may be continued, without the hearing on the matter being opened or public testimony taken, at the discretion of the Chair.  Persons wishing to address the continued item may do so under Open Forum.

Staff reports for items listed on this agenda will be ava­il­able by 3:00 p.m. the Wednesday, one week be­fore the mee­t­ing, to any in­ter­est­ed par­ty, at the Community and Economic Development Agency, Planning and Zoning Division, 250 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, California 94612.  Reports are available at the Strategic Planning Division on the 3^rd floor (Suite 3330), which closes at 5:00 p.m.

 

                                                                    Staff reports are also available on-line, generally one week prior to each meeting, at www.oaklandnet.com by searching “Frequently Visited Pages” located on the City of Oakland Homepage.  Clicking on “Planning Commission Meetings” will open a menu of Planning Commission and Committee Agendas.  Staff reports are available on the selected agenda by clicking on the highlighted case file number. For further information, please call 510-238-3941.  While attending Planning Commission meetings parking in the Clay Street Garage is Free. Attendees should write Planning Commission on the back of the parking ticket.

If you cha­l­len­ge a Com­mis­sion de­ci­sion in court, you may be lim­ited to is­sues raised at the hea­ring or in cor­re­spo­n­den­ce de­liv­ered to the Zon­ing Di­vi­sio­n, Com­mu­nity and Eco­nom­ic De­vel­op­ment Age­ncy, at, or pri­or to, the hea­r­ing.  Any party seeking to challenge in court those decisions that are final and not administratively appealable to the City Council must do so within ninety (90) days of the date of the announcement of the final decision.

 

 

ROLL CALL

WELCOME BY THE CHAIR

 

 

COMMISSION BUSINESS    

 

      Agenda Discussion

      Director's Report:               

      Committee Reports             

Commission Matters           

                                              

      City Attorney's Report

 

   OPEN FORUM                      

At this time mem­bers of the pub­lic may speak on any item of in­ter­est wit­hin the Com­mis­sio­n's jurisdiction. Speakers are generally limited to two minutes or less if there are six or less speakers on an item, and one minute or less if there are more than six speakers.

 

CONSENT CALENDAR

The Commission will take a single roll call vote on all of the items listed below in this section.  The vote will be on approval of the staff report in each case.  Members of the Commission may request that any item on the Consent Calendar be singled out for separate discussion and vote.

 

 

 

PUBLIC HEARINGS:         

 

The hearing provides opportunity for all concerned persons to speak; the hearing will normally be closed after all testimony has been heard.  The Commission will then vote on the matter based on the staff report and recommendation. If you wish to be notified on the decision of an agenda item, please indicate the case number and submit a self-addressed stamped envelope, for each case.  Planning Commission decisions that involve “major” cases (i.e., major variances, major conditional use permits) are usually appealable to the City Council.  Such appeals must be filed within ten (10) days of the date of the announcement of the Planning Commission decision.  If you challenge a Commission decision in court, you may be limited to issues raised at the public hearing or in correspondence delivered to the Zoning Division, Community and Economic Development Agency, at, or prior to, to the public hearing.

 

Interested parties are encouraged to submit written material on agenda items in advance of the meeting and prior to the close of the public hearing on the item. To allow for distribution to the Commission, staff, and the public, 25 copies of all material should be submitted.  Material submitted at least ten days prior to the meeting may be included as part of the agenda packet; material submitted later will be distributed at or prior to the meeting. To ensure that material is distributed to Commissioners, it should be received by the Commission.

 

 

1.                                 Location:	MacArthur BART Station (also includes properties on Telegraph from Apgar to 40th Street, excluding the corner parcel at 40th and Telegraph)
Proposal:	MacArthur Transit Village -- Scoping Session to receive comments for a Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) regarding the proposal to construct a transit village on the 6.84 acre site, including 800-units of housing and 30,000 square feet of commercial space.
Applicant:	Deborah Castles, MacArthur Transit Community Partners, LLC.  / (510) 273-2002
Owner:	San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit
Case File Number:	ER060004
General Plan:	Neighborhood Center Mixed Use
Zoning:	R-70 (High Density Residential); C-28 (Commercial Shopping District); S-18 (Mediated Residential Design Review Combined Zone)
Environmental Determination:	Staff has determined that an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) must be prepared for this project. A Notice of Preparation to prepare the EIR was published on February 15, 2006. The comment period for the NOP ends on March 16, 2006.
Service Delivery District:	2 – North Oakland
City Council District:	1
Staff  Recommendation:	Receive public and Commission comments about what information and analysis should be included in the EIR.
For further information:	Contact case planner Natalie Fay at (510) 238-2129 or by e-mail at nfay@oaklandnet.com

 

 

 

 

 

Attachments and Exhibits for Oak to Ninth Staff Report

 

APPEALS

The Commission will take testimony on each appeal.  Following testimony, the Commission will vote on the report prepared by staff. Unless otherwise noted, the decisions in the following matters are final and not administratively appeasable. Any party seeking to challenge these decisions in court must do so within ninety (90) days of the date of the announcement of the final decision. If you challenge an appeal

 in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues raised at the appeal hearing, or in written correspondence received by the Zoning Division, Community and Economic Development Agency at, or prior to, the appeal hearing.

 

COMMISSION BUSINESS    

Approval of Minutes: January 4, 2006, February 1, 2006, February 15, 2006                                                  

      Correspondence                   

      City Council Actions

OPEN FORUM                         

At this time mem­bers of the pub­lic may speak on any item of in­ter­est wit­hin the Com­mis­sio­n's jurisdiction. Speakers are generally limited to two minutes or less if there are six or less speakers on an item, and one minute or less if there are more than six speakers.

 

ADJOURNMENT  By 10:30 P.M. un­less a lat­er time is agreed upon by a ma­jor­ity of Com­mis­si­on­ers pre­s­ent.

 

 

 

 

GARY V. PATTON

Deputy Director of

Planning and Zoning

 

 

NEXT REGULAR  MEETING:    March 22, 2006