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The San Ramon Planning Commission is set to provide feedback on two proposed new housing projects at its meeting as the city seeks to comply with the requirement to accommodate more than 5,000 new units in the current housing element cycle.
Trumark Homes is the latest developer to pursue a new housing project at Bishop Ranch as redevelopment plans unfold for the 585-acre site, with a concept review for a proposed 199-unit residential project at Camino Ramon and Norris Canyon Road on the agenda for the planning commission meeting.
The 11-acre site currently houses three office buildings occupied largely by medical offices. If approved, the proposed project would see these buildings eliminated and replaced with 138 three-story attached townhouses plus 61 three-story detached, single family units. Under the current proposal, the townhouse units would be either three or four bedrooms, with the detached units all being four bedrooms. Each unit would also include two covered parking spaces.
The upcoming discussion is set to be informational only, with commissioners offering feedback and opinions to Trumark as part of the concept review prior to the formal application process.
“Should the Applicant decide to proceed, additional details, studies, and project plans will be required to be submitted for review by staff prior to Planning Commission consideration,” Senior Planner Cindy Yee wrote in a staff report for the upcoming meeting.
The San Ramon Planning Commission is set to meet at 6 p.m. on Tuesday (July 16). The agenda is available here.
In other business
*The commission is set to review a Preliminary Housing Development application for the proposed Woodside Canyon housing project on a 2.91-acre site at 18 Crow Canyon Ct.
If approved, the project would replace an existing 51,000 square foot office building on the site with 54 for-sale townhouse units within seven three-story buildings. As proposed, three units would be made available to very low-income residents, one unit to low income, and four units for moderate incomes for a total of eight units below market rate.
*Commissioners are set to vote on the body’s new chair and vice chair for the current yearlong cycle, as well as recognizing outgoing chair Eric Wallis.
Where does the Bishop Ranch housing madness stop?
It’s one thing to replace mostly vacant office space in Bishop Ranch…but we personally have 2 doctors in this complex being displaced…and one is now moving to Walnut Creek!
There are hundreds of doctors in this complex on the corner of Camino Ramon and Norris Canyon. Not to mention there are two Lab Corp. offices in this complex that are used by hundreds of local residents each week.
It has been said numerous times on various Nextdoor posts that in this community are generally in favor of controlled and responsible growth, but this does not seem to fit into that category.
It would be nice as part of the coverage and disclosure related to this new project if the developers would let us know what the plan is for where all of these displaced medical services are going to go? Meaning if there is a plan in place that moves all of these doctors and medical facilities to another Bishop branch building that has been recently renovated for their use, then that would be a win-win for the community. But what I heard from one of our doctors is that what she was being offered, was far from a win-win as her rent would be going up significantly. Thus she is taking this opportunity to relocate her practice out of San Ramon into a medical community within Walnut Creek.