REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Consider a Below Market Rate Alternative Compliance Plan and Amended Conditions of Approval for Residential Development at 777 Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road: 77Seven Housing Partners LLC, Planning File 2024-0621
Report
SUMMARY OF COMMISSION ACTION
The Housing and Human Services Commission (HHSC) considered this item on May 28, 2025 (see Attachment 1 for Report to the Housing and Human Services Commission).
The HHSC voted to recommend that the City Council approve Alternative 1 to approve the Applicant's Below Market Rate (BMR) Alternative Compliance Plan for the project located at 777 Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road. (Attachment 2 for Affordable Housing Compliance Plan Request and Letter). The vote was 6-1 with Vice Chair Weiss dissenting.
DISCUSSION
If the City Council approves the BMR Alternative Compliance Plan, the Conditions of Approval (COAs) approved during the initial entitlement of the project must be amended to reflect the modification to the project. Amended COAs are provided as Attachment 4 to this report and reflect the land dedication requirements and specific conditions applicable to the projects separately instead of a single (joint) project that the Planning Commission previously approved. The modification to the COAs was not presented to the HHSC, as this commission does not have land use authority.
The site is zoned ECR MU-54, which has minimum requirements for both residential and commercial uses. In October 2024, the City Council adopted a Program for Modified Commercial Requirements in Mixed-Use Development in the El Camino Real Specific Plan (RTC 24-0953). Sites with no frontage on El Camino Real and that include more than 66% of the units as affordable to lower-income households (with at least 25% of the affordable units affordable to households at or below 50% of the area median income) have no minimum requirement for commercial uses. Approval of Alternative Compliance for this site would relieve the developer of ...
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