REPORT TO PLANNING COMMISSION
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Proposed Project: Related applications on a 40.5 acre site:
MAJOR MOFFETT PARK SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT: Two new five-story R&D office buildings of 1,041,890 square feet resulting in 60 percent Floor Area Ratio (FAR). The existing 710,381 square feet of office & manufacturing buildings will be demolished.
TENTATIVE MAP: Merge ten existing parcels and create two new parcels.
Location: 360 W. Caribbean Drive (APNs: 110-26-020, 021, 022, 023, 025, 027, 028, 029, 030, 031)
File #: 2017-8042
Zoning: Moffett Park Industrial (MP-I) & Moffett Park Transit Oriented Development (MP-TOD)
Applicant / Owner: Google LLC (applicant) / Google Inc. (owner)
Environmental Review: Transportation Environmental Impact Report and Statement of Overriding Considerations and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting program
Project Planners: Michelle King, (408) 730-7463, mking@sunnyvale.ca.gov and Shaunn Mendrin, (408) 730-7431, smendrin@sunnyvale.ca.gov
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
General Plan: Moffett Park Specific Plan
Existing Site Conditions: The project area is occupied by 13 office and industrial buildings, surface parking and site landscaping. The area spans from Borregas Avenue to Mathilda Avenue with the primary frontage spanning W. Caribbean Drive. The project area is bisected (north/south) by the Santa Clara Valley Water District drainage channel (West Channel), which outlets to the San Francisco Bay.
Surrounding Land Uses
North: Former landfill, City Water Pollution Control Plant, SMaRT station and San Francisco Bay.
South: Office and industrial uses.
East: Office and industrial uses.
West: Yahoo campus and Lockheed Martin.
Issues: Transportation EIR impacts and mitigations, traffic impacts and improvements, changes to the West Channel, setbacks, parking, tree preservation.
Staff Recommendation: Planning Commission recommend the City Council: adopt a resolution certifying the Transportation EIR, adopting the Statements of Overridin...
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