COYOTE: Planning Commission June 14th for building approvals

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The developer of the property upwind of Coyote Point Park is on calendar for
approval of his project -

Date: June 14th @ 7:00 p.m.

Place: Planning Commission
501 Primrose Road
Burlingame, CA 94010

This may be your last chance to have your say. The Planning Commission has
the power to approve the project on 6/14 if they so choose. A number of
Commissioners have expressed concerns about windsurfing impacts and they
should be hear from us. On 5/24, the Commission asked the developer to
explore new alternatives to reduce the impacts to windsurfing and to the
views and it appears the re-submitted plans will not address those concerns.
Let the commission know that the developer should not be rewarded with the
granting of exceptions to height limits, view blockage limits, etc.

Letters mailed by Saturday to Meg Monroe, City Planner and/or the Planning
Commission at the above address by Saturday will likely reach the City in
time to be included in the materials package which will go out to each
Commissioner in the middle of next week. Any other letters mailed to the City
would not reach the Commissioners until the night of the meeting.

Next Thurday I will have a copy of the Staff Report and will have had a
chance to review the design changes. At that time I will post up more
specific information. Comments on the specifics will have to be made in
person since letters sent after next Thurday will not reach the Commission
until it is too late. Speakers at the Planning Commission are limited to
three minutes each, so it is important to be organized and to hit topics
others ahev not hit on.

The developer has apparantly made very minor changes to the project following
requests by the Planning Commission that he provide alternative plans which
looked at reducing wind impacts by downsizing, rotating buildings, or
relocating buildings. None of the buildings have been rotated or moved. The
overall square footage in the revised plan is apparantly reduced by less than
1% and remains in the 635,000 square foot range. The parking deck has
apparantly been lowered to the Airport Boulevard curb level (down a foot or
two) so that the project technically complies with lot coverage guidelines
which it previously exceeded. The builder still needs an exception on
exceeding building height limits for the 6-7 story buildings planned for the
west side of the property. The Commissioners should be reminded that the
developer failed to provide a real alternative as requested following the
5/24 Palnning Commission meeting.

It sounds like the developer is submitting the "4-4-4-6-7 option" which was
previously presented to the SFBA as the less desirable of two developer
options (the more desirable was the 4-3-4-7-7 option). The buildings nearest
Coyote Point would be 65' measured curb to roof but would be about 85' when
measured from mean sea level to the top of the penthouse/mechanical sheds.

The first three numbers in the option names refer to the heights of the three
buildings closest to Coyote Point. The last two numbers in the option names
refer to the heights of the two buidlings farthest from Coyote Point. The
original plan was a 5-5-7-5-3 configuration with tallest buildings near the
water and the 7 story building near the corner toward the ASD windsurf shop.
While there is some benefit from reduced building heights near the water,
there is also an increase in the impacts from the taller buildings

Peter Thorner
Chairman, Coyote Point Committee
San Francisco Boardsailing Association

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