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By Stuart Flashman

Planning Commission Approves Creekside Project After Changes by Stuart Flashman, Chair, RCPC Land Use Committee Despite opposition from the Rockridge Community Planning Council and STAND (Standing Together for Accountable Neighborhood Development), the Oaklan...

The Planning Commission said the right to maintain existing views was not applicable with this permit. Verizon Wireless argued that home- owners are not entitled to their views, and the Planning Commission said the right to maintain existing views was not applica...

Planning Commission – will be ruling on as the proposal comes under review. Ranelletti encouraged audience and com- munity members to add their comments to the process, so the Planning Commission has as full a community response as possible. Send comments to ...

Oakland’s Planning Commission is composed of seven members — each appointed by the Mayor and approved by the City Council to serve a four-year term. As Chairman of that Commission, one of Doug Jones’ tasks is to make sure that Commission meetings run smoothly. “I don’t...

By Ronnie Spitzer

The Planning Commission’s approval of the project itself was not deemed eligible for appeal, so the council did not consider project design changes. The neighbors have filed a lawsuit. ■ Zoning Update Committee – Lower Temescal Corridor The Zoning Counter The Zon...

The City has continued the Planning Commission’s hearing on changes to the off-street parking requirements for new projects. Originally scheduled for June 1, it’s now been moved to the June 22 Planning Commission meeting. The Oakland Chap­ ter of SPUR (SF Area Planning and Urban Resear...

Planning Commission were there an appeal, can deny a waiver is if it has a specific, adverse impact upon health or safety that is “quantifiable, direct, and unavoidable…, based on objective, identified written public health or safety standards, policies, or c...

Planning Commission Approves Jewish Community Center By Mark Aaronson, RCPC Board Member residents of Chabot Road between College and Claremont, the neighbor- hood block most affected by JCCEB’s plans. The proposed new uses for the nearly 3-acre site include ...

Planning Commission Unanimously Approves Safeway’s Rockridge Shopping Center Project In addition to attractive and interesting kitchens, homes on the Rockridge Kitchen Tour can offer visual bonuses to tour-goers, such as the vintage camper trailers displayed ...

Planning Commission member, has almost 40 years’ experience in architecture and residential design. Since 1969, Davidson has developed many commercial, educational, medical, religious and recreational facilities in the Bay Area and beyond, and has served as a...

The Planning Commission will hold a second hearing on the application July 11, 1990. The Planning Commission decision is appealable to the City Coun- cil for 10 days after the July 11 hearing. For further information, call 273-3911 and refer to CM 90-229,

PLANNING COMMISSION RESPONSE

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Planning Commission on June 28, 1989, must be retained:

Planning Commission Certifies Dreyer’s EIR

Planning Commission RCPC General Meeting

Planning Commission RCPC General Meeting

Planning Commission Acts On College Avenue Applications; Others Pending

Planning Commission Seeks, Finds Citizen Feedback

Planning Commission Update: Edible Complex

Planning Commission Update: The Lobby

Planning Commission Limits Data Focus Use Permit

Planning Commission Approves FITLAB Permit

Planning Commission Room 115 City Hall: Public Hearing on

Planning Commission Room 115 City Hall: Public Hearing on Yoshi’s Parking Use Permit.

Planning Commission Sets Restaurant Conditions

Planning Commission Evening Meeting about Telegraph Avenue. Bananas — 6501 Telegraph.

Planning Commission Rejects Shell Oil Mini—Market!

Planning Commission Votes Support Rockridge Positions

Planning Commission Public Hearings of these Ap- plications will be held Wednesday, September 17, at 1:30 pm, Room 115, Oakland City Hall. College Avenue Fish Co. is number 8 on the agenda, case number CMD86—384; Cybelle’s Pizza is number 9 on the agenda, cas...

Planning Commission reviews Yoshi's conditions.

Planning Commission Action

...ot zoned for a building of that type or use, you file a request for a zoning variance with the Commission staff. The Zoning Ordinance specifies whether a proposed use requires a Major or a Minor Variance. Minor Variances are handled by the Planning Commission staff, but Major Variance applica- tions are heard by the Commission in public hearings in the Commission chambers at City Hall. Mr. Jones says that if the Commission knows that the hearing might be controversial or length, special meeting...

... (CEQA) compliance, a process likely to take at least four months from the acceptance date. This project is subject to a regular design review, which in this instance results in a decision by the Planning Director, subject to appeal to the Planning Commission. The Planning Director must post public notice of the proposed decision at least 17 days before it becomes final. What is legally most at issue is not how high or how bulky a building is but whether the project falls within the permissible...

Reactions from the seven Planning Commissioners were quite varied: two commissioners were openly hostile to several speakers who opposed the project, two commissioners posed excellent ques- tions and made constructive comments, and three commissioners had little or nothing to say. At...

Members of the Planning Commission listened to four hours of testimony about past decisions and to suggestions for im- provements in the City Planning process. Passionate speeches were frequently in- terrupted by applause from the audience, as the Commission frequently came...

RCPC Land Use Committee Planning Commission Votes to Advance CCA Project T Get Involved and Stay in Touch with Oakland’s General Plan Process he Oakland Planning Commis- sion voted last month to advance the California College of the Arts (CCA) Project to the City Council including t...

By Kathy Walsh

and despite the CEQA-stipulated 45-day | on October 11 and be prepared to speak review period, City Planning staff seta on both the DEIR and the Conditional Planning Commission Hearing on both _Use/Design Review applications. Those the DEIR and the Major Conditional Use/ _ not planning to speak but who are op- Design Review applicationsfor Wednesday, posed to or are concerned about specific September 20, just 1 1...

The City Planning Commission has set a 45-day public review period on the Dreyer’s EIR, which expires May 8, 1989. Comments may be submitted in writing to the Commission at any time during the review period. Also, the Commission will hold a special public hearing on t...

- “The Planning Commission has had a vacancy for a year or so, yet Commissioner Arce was summarily replaced. Why is a situng Commissioner replaced while a vacancy on this im- portant City panel lingers?

By John Wagers

The Planning Commission discussed RCPC’s letter at its February 4 meeting. José Arce, Chairman, said he felt there was a problem and a public hearing might reveal the best way to solve it. Commissioner Bruce Black suggested that development applications which fal...

The Planning Commission approved the Design Review application to add a second dome at the rear of the building. The Major Conditional use permit for a pizza restaurant was also approved. Fifteen conditions recommended by planning department staff and RCPC were a...

At the Planning Commission meeting on June 28, 1989, RCPC submitted 37 conditions to be attached to approval of the Dreyer's Corporation Project. Of the 37 conditions, only two were adopted by the Commission (see be- low, #4a and #5 ) at the time it approved the pro...

The Planning Commission approved a use permit for beer and wine sales (10/5). The Commission adopted RCPC’s recom- mended condition of approval, limiting beer and wine sales to packaged gift bas- kets. * Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream,

Ata May hearing before the Planning Commission, Datafocus, RCPC and the College Avenue Merchants Association were encouraged by the Commission to find agreement concerning Datafocus’ occupancy of ground floor retail space with a non-

College Avenue Fish Co. restaurant proponents came to a last minute agreement with RCPC concerning odor control and limiting take-out sales to 50% of gross receipts during a Planning Commission hearing held January 6. The Commission then adopted RCPC recommendations for use permit conditions.

... The next meeting with the developers will be in mid-May. For comments to be effective and timely, they should be submitted in writing for the record earlier in the staff review process. Only issues raised in writing can be appealed to the Planning Commission. There is no appeal to the City Council, and any further remedy would involve litigation. If the project meets the units test,

After the long-delayed Planning Commission Hearing, the RCPC Land Use Committee reviewed the scoping comments for the EIR on the Califor­ nia College of Art Oakland Campus redevelopment project. Lower priority projects to be con­ sidered, pending funding availability and residents’...

By David Kessler

The Oakland Planning Commission will consider the Historic Resource Evaluation findings and is expected to release and review a Draft Environmental Impact Report

...me being, the parties have agreed not to reveal details of the disagreements. Most community concerns addressed by Safeway’s approval of last-minute deal with neighborhood groups After a two-hour public hearing on September 25, the Oakland Planning Commission unanimously approved Safeway’s plans for rebuilding the Rockridge Shopping Center, located at the corner of Broadway and Pleasant Valley Avenue.

Telegraph Bus Lane Plans to be Heard by Planning Commission, Public, Council

RCPC drops formal opposition after Planning Commission responds to community concerns

The Planning Commission hearing,

Luckily, the Planning Commission recently has shown remarkable spunk and intelligence in the face of such well- financed efforts by similar developers, and RCPC continually has come to the aid of its neighbors. Please keep up the good work.

By Kathy Walsh

| The City received Dreyer’s DraftEn- _ nately, the City Planning Commission, General Membership vironmental Report (DEIR) about 2:00 through a “straw” vote at Its September p.m. on September 6and wasted notime _6 regularly-scheduled meeting (the for-

CITY PLANNING COMMISSION/ZT95- 67 (AMENDMENTS TO ZONING REGU- LATION SECTION 9300)

CITY PLANNING COMMISSION/C ASE No. ZT95-67 (AMENDMENTS TO ZONING REGULATION SECTION 9300)

This raises my third question to the Planning Commission and City Coun- cil: “What is the actual economic gain (or loss) to the city of the proposed Dreyer’s expansion?”

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The City Planning Commission ap- proved the application for “Perogies Please!”, a 30-seat delicatessen/cafe. Conditions were made regarding parking, hours of operation, signage, and litter control.

The Planning Commission decision

Wednesday Sept20 1:30 em Planning Commission 7:30 PM RCPC General Meeting

At the Planning Commission meet- ing of September 6, 1989, the applica- tion for the Major Variance was with- drawn. The City will now re-notice the project under Design Review proce- dures.

The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on this application on September 20, 1989, 1:30 pm, City Hall, Room 115.

The Planning Commission will hear the matter at its meeting on September 20, 1989 at 1:30 pm. For additional in- formation, call Henry Johnson at 655-4464.

With the recent Planning Commission approval of the Dreyer’s corporate headquar- ters expansion, the Rockridge neighborhood faces a threat which unfortunately is familiar to many neighborhoods in Oakland: the gradual destruction of residential areas by inappropriate commerci...

To The Oakland Planning Commission:

In late March, the City Planning Commission released a draft Environ- mental Impact Report (EIR) for the Dreyer’s office building project. The document was prepared by EIP Associ- ates, a Bay Area environmental consult- ing firm, under the City’s direction. Many Neighbors requested ...

The Planning Commission tentatively has scheduled a special meeting at City Hall, Room 115, on Wednesday evening, May 24, 1989, at 7:30 pm to hear public comment regarding the proposed Dreyer’s office/retail project on College Avenue.

If the Planning Commission accepts the EIR and approves the project, it must adopt a finding, supported by substantial evidence, that each significant effect iden- tified in the EIR has been avoided or substantially lessened. This may be achieved by:

Oakland City Planning Commission One City Hall Plaza

City Council Meeting RCPC General Meeting Cancelled Planning Commission

City Council Meeting Planning Commission RCPC General Meeting

The Planning Commission approved a use permit for a full service restaurant (9/ 14). The conditions of approval recom- mended by RCPC were adopted in gen- eral. ¢ Gift Express, 5406 College

The Planning Commission voted against the RCPC recommendation for denial and approved (10/5) a use permit to

The Planning Commission denied the requested variance to legalize conversion of a residence to office use (10/5). The applicant is expected to appeal the deci- sion to the City Council.

The Piedmont Planning Commission heard a request for design review by Mr. Frederick Morse concerning a house he has expanded with additional bedrooms. Nearby neighbors of the project spoke of their concern about the effect of potential additional traffic and noise the pro...

The Planning Commission will vote on the application at its September 21st meeting.

The Planning Commission has approved the applicauon by the Edible Complex Cafe to place tables and chairs for outside dining on the College and Ocean View Avenues sidewalks. City staff originally had recommended approval only for the Ocean

Monitors applications before the Planning Commission and works with potential developers to ensure that the spirit as well as the letter of our C-31 Zoning is respected. Recent activities include working with Broadway area neighbors opposing conver- sion of residential to commercial use at M...