REPORT TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION
SUBJECT
Title
Peery Park Specific Plan - Draft Project Description, Draft Vision, Guiding Principles, Goals and Policies and Conceptual Policy Framework Diagrams and Maps
Staff Contact: Amber El-Hajj, (408) 730-2723, ael-hajj@sunnyvale.ca.gov
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
The goal of the Peery Park Specific Plan (PPSP) is to physically reshape Peery Park over time through a program of public improvements and private investments in redevelopment to create a thriving workplace district that also provides benefits for the surrounding area.
The next step in the process is to obtain direction from the City Council on the project description and conceptual policy framework so that a draft Specific Plan and draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) can be developed for further public review.
Staff is recommending that the City Council direct staff to move forward with the draft Specific Plan and draft EIR based on the draft project description (Attachment 2), draft vision, guiding principles, goals and policies (Attachment 3) and conceptual policy framework diagrams and maps (Attachment 4). Once Council gives staff direction, the draft Specific Plan and draft EIR will be developed. It is expected that these items would be available for public review in summer 2015 and would return to the Council in fall 2015.
The City Council is scheduled to consider this item on April 28, 2015.
BACKGROUND
Preparation of the PPSP has been a longstanding uncompleted study issue; the attached study issue paper (Attachment 1) discusses the original rationale for the specific plan. The study issue was highly ranked by the City Council in 2009, but was deferred in subsequent years when the budgeted funds were transferred to update the Land Use and Transportation Element (LUTE) and to prepare the Climate Action Plan (CAP).
With the economic downturn in 2008 and the lack of significant development activity in Peery Park, it was not u...
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