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The Danville Planning Commission is set Tuesday to debate a development plan and tree removal request which, if approved, would both allow for a new four-story multi-family residential apartment complex to be constructed at the Village Shopping Center.
According to the staff report, the proposed 200-unit residential building would cover just over 348,000 square feet at the shopping center and would retain about 27,700 square feet of an existing two-story commercial building across the 3.89-acre site.
“This application requests to construct a 200-unit apartment building on the site,” town staff stated in the Feb. 24 commission report. “The construction would require the demolition of the three existing commercial buildings along Town & Country Drive, while a fourth existing commercial building abutting the southern property line would be retained and remodeled.”
In addition to all that, the project also seeks to remove five “town-protected trees”, four of which are large heritage coast redwood trees along Town & County Drive.
“While the Town and the applicant have strived to save the large redwood trees along Town & Country Drive, some trees were found to be too close to the proposed new building to be saved,” according to the staff report. “A total of 12 large redwood trees along Town & Country Drive would be preserved to help provide screening for the new building.”
According to staff, the new housing project represents the latest effort to meet the state’s requirement to plan for 2,241 housing units for Danville, as mandated by the State Department of Housing and Community Development during the town’s latest Housing Element cycle.
The site, dubbed Opportunity Site S, was one of over 70 other parcels that the town identified and redesignated for multifamily housing with a density of 30 to 35 units per acre and a maximum of three stories. Blake Griggs Properties, a real estate agency based in Danville and the applicant behind the project, filed a waiver to add a fourth story to the building.
According to the staff report, the applicant is also requesting a density bonus that stipulates a total of 21 units would be “required to be rented to very low-income households”.
In addition to the new units, the apartment building would include two levels of basement parking and an interior courtyard area. According to staff, the town prepared a traffic impact study that “did not identify any potentially significant traffic impacts but recommended several measures to optimize vehicle and pedestrian circulation”.
“These measures, which include traffic signal timing adjustments, parking restrictions on Town & Country Drive related to site visibility at project driveways, and striping and directional signage, are included in Resolution No. 2026-05 as recommended conditions of approval,” according to the staff report.
However, because the project is statutorily exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act, the traffic study is mostly for informational purposes and cannot be used as a basis for denying the project.
The Planning Commission meeting is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. Tuesday (Feb. 24). The full agenda can be accessed here.
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