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The Danville Town Council is set to review two appeals raising concerns about a proposed 99-unit senior housing project on El Pintado Road as well as consider a development plan request and vesting tentative map from the applicant.
The 3.17-acre site at 425 El Pintado Road was identified as a housing opportunity site in the town’s current Housing Element and General Plan, under which it has a high density residential zoning designation.
The proposed senior housing project was approved by the Planning Commission at their Nov. 12 meeting, after which the town received two appeals against the decision on Nov. 22 from Tristan and Severine Munday, and Betty and Dan Egbert and Linda Holman.
Both appeals contest a statement in the project’s traffic impact study that concludes that senior housing facilities generate fewer daily trips than other housing projects, noting that this might be the case for an assisted living facility, but not a 55+ community such as the one being proposed in the project at hand, calling for a re-analysis of the project’s potential traffic impacts.
Other concerns raised by the appellants include parking, proposed tree removals – requests for which are also on the table for the council’s consideration this week – and compliance with CEQA and the town’s General Plan.
Town staff are recommending that the council reject the two appeals and approve the tentative vesting map and development plan and tree removal requests from the applicant following a public hearing on the matter this week.
The Danville Town Council is set to meet at 5 p.m. on Tuesday (Dec. 17). The agenda is available here.
In other business
*The council is set to host a presentation recognizing outgoing DPD Chief Allan Shields.
*The council is set to consider an 8% rate increase for solid waste and recycling services.
*The council is set to make a number of commission and advisory body appointments, including the appointment of four regular members and one alternate member to the Planning Commission, and four members of the Heritage Resource Commission.
