AGENDA

1. ROLL CALL
                                 
2. AGENDA AMENDMENTS  

3. COMMUNITY FORUM (Public Comments)
This agenda category is limited to 15 minutes to be allocated as determined by the Planning Commission Chair.  If you wish to address the hearing body, please complete a speaker's card and give it to the Secretary.  If your subject is not on the agenda, the Planning Commission Chair will recognize you at this time.

4. CONSENT CALENDAR
Consent Calendar items are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion.  There will be no separate discussion on these items unless members of the Commission, staff or public request specific items to be removed for separate action

4A. Minutes of  2/6/07
4B. Minutes of  3/6/07

5. NEW BUSINESS:
 
5A. Review of Ralston Avenue/US 101 Interchange Landscape Plans

6. PUBLIC HEARINGS:

6A. PUBLIC HEARING – 820 Anita Avenue (Continued from February 20, 2007 Commission Meeting)
To consider a Single Family Design Review to construct a new 2,816 square foot single-family residence for the site. (Appl. No.  2006-0026)
APN: 044-152-250; Zoned: R-1C (Single-Family Residential)
CEQA Status: Categorical Exempted per Section 15303
APPLICANT: Juan Fernandez
OWNER: Appleseed, LLC
PROJECT PLANNER: Rob Gill, (650) 598-4204

6B. PUBLIC HEARING – Amendment to Zoning Ordinance
To consider revisions to Section 6.2.3 (M-1 – Limited Manufacturing District – Conditionally Permitted Uses). The amendment will consider adding “Business, professional, or trade school” uses to the list of conditionally permitted uses in the M-1 Limited Manufacturing District. This request is being processed in accordance with Section 9.5.1 of the Belmont Zoning Ordinance, “Addition to the List of Permitted Uses – Or Conditional Uses.” Planning Commission recommendations and the environmental document will be forwarded to the City Council for final action. 
(Appl. No. PA 2007-0002), CEQA Status: Negative Declaration
APPLICANT:  Joel Patterson, AICP, on behalf of Embarcadero Capital Partners, LLC.
PROJECT PLANNER: Jennifer Walker, (650) 595-7453

6C. PUBLIC HEARING – 1000 O’Neill Avenue
To consider a Conceptual Development Plan (CDP) and Rezone to establish a Planned Development (PD) Zoning District, Lot Merger, and certification of a Mitigated Negative Declaration pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for relocation and rehabilitation of the historic Emmett House.  The Emmett House is proposed to relocate from a commercial site at 843 Ralston to a vacant site at 1000 O'Neill Avenue and be rehabilitated into two below-market rate residential units. Site improvements include construction of a two-car detached garage, landscaping and reconfiguration of Sixth Avenue and abandonment of a portion of O’Neill Avenue to provide additional land area on the project site through the abandonment of excess right-of-way. Belmont Creek meanders through the north half of the site. (Appl. No. 2006-0090)
Current Zoning: R-1B (Single-Family Residential); Proposed Zoning: (PD) Planned Development
APN: 045-181-230, 260, & 280; CEQA Status: Mitigated Negative Declaration
APPLICANT/OWNER: City of Belmont
PROJECT PLANNER: Andrea Ouse, (650) 333-3973

7. REPORTS, STUDIES AND UPDATES

A. 2900 Hallmark Drive – 7 Lot Subdivision 
B. Avanti Pizza Commercial Center – 2040 Ralston Avenue
C. U-Haul – 530 El Camino Real
D. Mid-Peninsula Water District Properties – Folger Drive and Ralston Avenue
E. 2700 Monserat Avenue

8. CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2007
     
Liaison: Chair Parsons 
Alternate Liaison: Commissioner Horton
    
9. ADJOURNMENT: 
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:00 pm for a Regular Planning Commission Meeting at Belmont City Hall.

Information on the applications to be considered at this meeting may be obtained from the City of Belmont Planning Division, One Twin Pines Lane, Suite # 110, CA, 94002, 650/595-7417. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact: 650-637-2999.  Notification in advance of the meeting will enable the city to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.