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The Pleasanton Planning Commission is set to approve a conditional use permit during Wednesday’s commission meeting which would allow a local soccer club to run a year-round futsal facility at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.
If the application for the permit — submitted by the Ballistic United Soccer Club (BUSC) — is approved by the commission during its consent calendar portion of the meeting, the soccer club will be allowed to set up three outdoor futsal courts in an area of the fairgrounds just east of the off-track betting building, according to the July 23 staff report.
Consent calendar items are considered routine in nature and are typically approved by a single vote. However, commissioners are allowed to pull items off the consent calendar for further discussion.
“The proposed futsal facility would not only generate local community interaction but also bring regional activities outside the Fair to the city,” Associate Planner Jenny Soo wrote in Wednesday’s staff report. “Staff finds the proposed recreational use is a great addition to the city and its region.”
Part of the application would also require the commission to find the project exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act.
“Staff is supportive of the proposed use and finds, as conditioned, the proposed outdoor futsal courts operated by BUSC are exempt from CEQA and would be consistent with the intent of the General Plan and objectives of the zoning district,” Soo wrote.
According to Soo’s staff report, Ballistic United Soccer Club has signed a five-year lease with the fairgrounds to operate the proposed futsal facility from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., Sunday through Saturday. The only exception is that the facility will temporarily cease operations during the Alameda County Fair over the summer and the Scottish Games on Labor Day Weekend.
The soccer club’s application seeks to lease approximately 52,500 square feet of land from the fairgrounds in order to run the outdoor facility, which would allow for programming such as futsal training, matches and tournaments, Soo stated.
The three proposed futsal courts would each be approximately 70 feet by 110 feet in dimensions and would be equipped with a storage box, a portable generator and benches for players. A roughly 7-foot-tall mesh fence would also be set up around the perimeter of the entire facility as well as inside to divide the three courts.
The Planning Commission meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday (July 23). The full agenda can be accessed here.
In other business:
* During its consent calendar portion of the meeting, the Planning Commission will also be set to approve a design review application for the construction of a 6,455-square-foot Japanese teppanyaki restaurant at 11991 Dublin Canyon Road.
The restaurant — Hana Japan, a local restaurant chain with locations in Berkeley and Dublin — is proposing to open its third location in the Bay Area on top of an existing, “boomerang-shaped lot” located on the southwest corner of Foothill Road and Dublin Canyon Road, across from the Stoneridge Shopping Center.
In addition to the restaurant itself, which would seat roughly 136 customers, the project would also include “an on-site parking lot with 43 spaces, a new bioretention area, and an off-site emergency vehicle turnaround.”Â
According to Soo’s staff report, the commission will also consider adopting an initial study and mitigated negative declaration, which found that the proposed restaurant would have no significant impacts to the surrounding environment.
“With the recommendation from the geotechnical consultant and the required environmental MMRP in place, the proposed project would have minimal impacts on the environment and the surrounding area,” Soo wrote in the staff report. “The new building design would bring a new perspective to the streetscape and is appropriate for the surrounding project area.”
After the consent calendar portion of the meeting, the commission will discuss and possibly approve a resolution which recommends that the City Council approve several text amendments to the city’s municipal code to recategorize innovation-based businesses.
“The subject application proposes to amend various chapters of the PMC regarding ‘Innovation-Based Businesses’ … by defining them as a distinct use category and providing tailored zoning requirements that will facilitate these high-value, relatively low-impact industrial uses in appropriate locations,” the staff report states. “The proposed amendments have been developed to advance Priority 5 of the City’s Economic Development Strategic Plan (EDSP), which directs the City to identify zoning modifications that would help attract the Life Sciences/Biotechnology sector and other target industries to Pleasanton.”
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