Item 19 - Resolution Repealing Resolution No. 2019-107 Regarding 2525 N Main St.

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Resolution No. 2025-xx Page 2 of 5 hundred and fifty-seven (157) in opposition. After hearing all relevant testimony from staff, the public and the City’s consultant team, the City Council voted that the applications go back to the Planning Commission for reconsideration after further consultation with the community; and WHEREAS, in June 2019, the applicant submitted a revised plan consisting of development 347 multi-family units (59 dwelling units per acre), with 642 parking spaces (1.85 parking spaces per unit) and parking capacity at 2.0 spaces per unit, within a 4 - story residential building wrapped around a five-level parking structure with an amenity deck on the sixth-level, private open space, and redesigned the intersection of Main Street and Walkie Way/Santiago Park Drive to provide access to the project on a 5.93 - acre site (the “June Revised Plan”); and WHEREAS, on August 12, 2019, the Planning Commission conducted a duly noticed public hearing to consider the June Revised Plan. At the meeting, seventy- seven (77) members of the expressed opposition; nine (9) supported the project, and one speaker was neutral. In addition, one-hundred (100) written comments were received with six (6) in support and ninety-four (94) in opposition. After hearing all relevant testimony from staff, the public and the City’s consultant team, the Planning Commission vote resulted in an impasse; and WHEREAS, in October 2019, in response to comments received the applicant submitted a further revised plan including redevelopment of the 5.93-acre site with 444,534 square feet of total development, including 277,281 square feet of residential buildings that would provide 256 for-rent multi-family residential units and a 167,253 square foot central parking structure and a 284 space surface level parking lot which also reduced the Project’s height, increased the Project’s setbacks, and modified the Project entrance (“October Modified Project”); and WHEREAS, the City prepared “Clarifications to the Final EIR” to determine if the October Modified Project would result in new or substantially increased environmental effects than those analyzed in the EIR such that the EIR would require recirculation prior to its certification; and WHEREAS, the Clarifications to the Final EIR include detailed analysis, based upon substantial evidence, that demonstrate that the Modified Project would not result in any new or substantially greater impacts than are disclosed in the EIR, no new mitigation measures beyond those identified in the EIR are required, and no additional feasible alternatives or mitigation measures considerably different from others previously analyzed would clearly lessen the significant environmental impacts of the project; and WHEREAS, on October 28, 2019, the Planning Commission conducted a duly noticed public hearing to consider the EIR, Development Agreement No. 2018 -01, General Plan Amendment No. 2018-06, and Amendment Application No. 2018-10 and solicited comments on the EIR. At the meeting, sixty-two (62) expressed opposition and two (2) in expressed support the project. In addition, ninety-eight (98) individuals submitted comments with ninety-four (94) in opposition and four (4) in support; and