Medical facilities at Bishop Ranch on tap for San Ramon commission

The San Ramon Planning Commission is set to consider an application from Sunset Development that would reduce parking in a portion of Bishop Ranch and allow for the operation of medical facilities at its next regular meeting.

Sunset Development officials have filed an application to establish medical service facilities at Bishop Ranch 15 at 12647 through 12677 Alcosta Boulevard, as well as reducing parking at the site by 34%, to 2,234 parking spaces out of a required 3,611.

Bishop Ranch 15 currently falls under the designation of Downtown Mixed Use within the city’s General Plan, situated next to the Park Central residential development, Iron Horse Middle School, the Iron Horse Trail and other Bishop Ranch offices, and across Alcosta Boulevard from San Ramon Regional Medical Center. 

The four-building office space is currently approved for 2,262 parking spaces on-site as well as 725 land-bank spaces.

“Sunset Development Company’s transportation system management program has reduced the need for onsite parking, resulting in the ability to land bank spaces within a future parking structure,” Assistant Planner Analisa Garcia wrote in a staff report. “The 1987 conditions of approval indicate that the future parking structure is to be constructed only if Sunset and the City determine the need to meet demonstrated demand.”

The parking reduction and minor use permit applications on the table for the commission’s upcoming meeting come on the heels of a use permit application that was submitted by Sunset Development on Dec. 12, 2023 and deemed complete by the city on March 19.

Sunset Development is seeking to use two of the four existing buildings at Bishop Ranch 15 for existing medical service tenants as well as making the site available to new medical tenants.

To support the proposed reduction in required parking spaces under the current city guidelines, Sunset Development submitted a survey prepared by consultants in September 2023 that suggest increasing medical services in the area would see a peak parking demand of 1,979 spaces, well under the 2,234 existing spaces. 

A subsequent study from the city’s traffic engineering department supported the findings and suggests that redesignating the area for medical services would “not have an adverse impact on the local roadway network.”

If the applications on the table for commissioners this week are approved, Sunset Development would be required to pursue additional building permits from the city.

The San Ramon Planning Commission is set to meet at 6 p.m. on Tuesday (April 16). The agenda is available here.