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The Pleasanton Planning Commission will be voting on two different applications related to the housing project at the Neal property, located along Vineyard Avenue between Thiessen Street and Manoir Lane.
The project aims to transform the roughly 10 acres, which the city identified as a site in its sixth cycle Housing Element, into housing and a three acre park. The land was previously owned by the school district and had been considered in the past as a location for another elementary school, however, that plan did not move forward.
Several years ago the Pleasanton Unified School District wanted to look at its surplus property and identify sites to place on the city’s latest Housing Element. Eventually, the city worked out the specifics with the district and PUSD ultimately sold the property to San Ramon-based Trumark Homes, LLC — after a different developer backed out.
If kept the same as the previous developer, the plans for the 10.64-acre site is to build up to 27 homes along with three acres of some type of greenbelt park space that goes through the development.
During Wednesday’s meeting, the commission will be reviewing a General Plan Amendment application from Trumark Homes which will allow for the “required 3-acre park/open space to be split into more than one park/open space area within the 10.64-acre site”
“Staff finds the amendments will be compatible with and will not detrimentally affect the existing or future on-site and adjacent/nearby uses or residences, and that the safety and general welfare of the surrounding area, and the city in general, is maintained,” according to the Jan. 22 staff report.
Staff will also bring forward the Vesting Tentative Map to the Planning Commission in late February.
The other application the commission will be reviewing in regards to the project is one that was initiated by the city in order to amend the Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan (VACSP) in order to allow the property to be used for housing.
The specific plan covers the area where the proposed housing project will be located, which is why it needs to be amended in order to permit the use of the project.
“State law requires the City’s various land use regulatory documents to be consistent with one another, and as such the Housing Element includes Program 1.1, to amend the Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan for consistency with the Housing Element,” according to the staff report.
“The city of Pleasanton has initiated an application to amend the VACSP to align with Housing Element permitted uses for the property and other conforming changes,” the report further states.
The Planning Commission meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday (Jan. 22). The full agenda can be accessed here.
