REPORT TO PLANNING COMMISSION
SUBJECT
Title
File #: 2017-7430
Location: 1225 Vienna Drive, Space 251 (APN: 110-31-001)
Zoning: Residential Mobile Home (RMH)
Proposed Project: USE PERMIT for a Large Family Child Care home (LFCCH) in a mobile home.
Applicant / Owner: Happy Hearts Childcare (applicant) / Plaza Del Rey Owner LLC (owner)
Environmental Review: A statutory exemption relieves this project from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines, Section 15274 (large family day care homes).
Project Planner: Aastha Vashist, (408) 730-7458, avashist@sunnyvale.ca.gov
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
General Plan: Mobile Home Park
Existing Site Conditions: Mobile Home
Surrounding Land Uses
North: Mobile Home
South: Mobile Home
East: Mobile Home
West: Mobile Home
Issues: Compatibility of use with neighborhood, parking and noise
Staff Recommendation: Approve with the recommended Conditions of Approval in Attachment 4.
BACKGROUND
Description of Proposed Project
The proposed project is an application for a Use Permit to operate a large family child care home (LFCC) in a mobile home community (Plaza Del Rey). The proposed LFCC is located more than 300 feet from any other permitted large family child care home including the one approved by the Planning Commission within the same Mobile Home Park (Unit 546) on July 10, 2017 (2017-7321). Per SMC 19.58.020, Large family child care home means a family child care home for 9 to 14 children, including children under the age of 10 years who reside at the home, as defined by Health & Safety Code Section 1596.78(b), as amended from time to time.
City of Sunnyvale Municipal Code Section 19.58.060 requires that a Use Permit be approved by the Planning Commission for operation of a large family child care home in a permitted single-family dwelling in any nonresidential zoning district or in a two-family dwelling, multi-family dwelling or mobile home.
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