Downtown Housing & Economic Opportunity Overlay and EKN Appellation Hotel

Downtown Housing & Economic Opportunity Overlay and EKN Appellation Hotel

The Mitigated Negative Declaration is for a project with an overlay component and a hotel component. The Overlay component of the project proposes a Zoning Text Amendment (ZTA) to allow areas within the proposed Overlay to increase the allowable building height from 45 feet to 75 feet with a Conditional Use Permit (CUP), increase lot coverage from 80% to 100%, allow development of multi-family uses by right within portions whereas currently residential uses only in a mixed-use building are allowed, and establish development and design controls for properties that would be subject to the proposed Overlay. The Overlay component also includes a Zoning Map Amendment (ZMA) to zone applicable parcels to the Downtown Housing & Economic Opportunity Overlay and a General Plan Amendment (GPA) to increase the maximum allowable floor area ratio (FAR) from 2.5 to 6.0. Properties proposed for inclusion in the Overlay are located in areas defined as Subarea A, Subarea B, and Subarea C (see image below). Portions of two of the subareas, Subarea A (three parcels) and Subarea B (one parcel), are located within the Downtown Commercial Historic District boundary, while Subarea C is abutting the Commercial Historic District boundary but does not intrude into the Commercial Historic District. The Hotel component of the project requests approval of Historic Site Plan and Architectural Review (SPAR) and a CUP to construct a 93-room, 6-story hotel inclusive of a below-grade parking garage with parking for up to 58 vehicles, rooftop event space and bar, food service uses on the ground floor, and valet system within the Downtown Commercial Historic District. The proposed Hotel also includes offsite improvements to remove and replace street trees along the project frontage, remove two existing driveways along Petaluma Blvd. South, reconfigure two curb-parking spaces along Petaluma Blvd. South, remove one curb parking space along B Street, and install a new bus stop and shelter along Petaluma Blvd. North adjacent to Central Park, resulting in the loss of three on-street parking spaces. The EKN Appellation Hotel site is listed on a hazardous materials sites compiled pursuant to Government Code Section 65962.5.

Petaluma

Sonoma

Citywide

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 2 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC)

California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC)

Commercial (Sq. Ft. 77445, Acres 10, Employees 80)

General Plan Amendment, Site Plan, Rezone, Use Permit

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