REPORT TO THE ZONING ADMINISTRATOR
SUBJECT
Title
Proposed Project:
SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT to demolish an existing one-story commercial building and construct a new 999 square feet one-story office building and 4,967 square feet two-story office building with podium parking. The project requests a deviation to allow 20-foot front yard setback, where 70 feet minimum is required.
Location: 1689 South Wolfe Road (APN: 309-51-028)
File #: 2022-7340
Zoning: C-1/PD (Neighborhood Business with a Planned Development combining district)
Applicant / Owner: Joseph Bellomo Architects (applicant)/PSR Development Inc. (owners)
Environmental Review: A Class 3 Categorical Exemption relieves this project from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) provisions.
Project Planner: Mary Jeyaprakash, 408-730-7449, mjeyaprakash@sunnyvale.ca.gov
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
The Zoning Administrator considered this item on May 15, 2024.
Owner representative from the neighboring gas station at 1697 South Wolfe Road (to the south of the project site) spoke against this item. There is a drive-aisle, allowing passage through the two properties, connecting South Wolfe Road and Homestead Road. The gas station wants to continue using this drive-aisle. However, the project proposes a concrete wall and fence over the drive-aisle, blocking access through the project site.
A summary of issues raised by the gas station owner representative is listed below, along with the City's responses,
* The proposed project will build over and block the existing drive-aisle, that provides access between South Wolfe Road and Homestead Road. The gas station owner representative characterizes this drive-aisle as a Prescriptive Easement. He states that the applicant is prohibited to build over or locate the proposed office building closer to this easement.
Staff Response: The gas station site has three other ingress and egress access points from South Wolfe Road and Homestead Road. The gas station site ...
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