Downtown Housing and Economic Opportunity Overlay and EKN Appellation Hotel Project

2 Documents in Project

Summary

SCH Number
2024040565
Lead Agency
City of Petaluma
Document Title
Downtown Housing and Economic Opportunity Overlay and EKN Appellation Hotel Project
Document Type
EIR - Draft EIR
Received
Present Land Use
Overlay General Plan land use designations: Mixed Use (MU) and Public/Semi-Public (PSP). Overlay Zoning designations: Mixed Use 2 (MU2) and Civic Facilities (CF) Hotel General Plan land use designation: MU Hotel Zoning land use designation: MU2
Document Description
DOWNTOWN HOUSING & ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OVERLAY: Implementation of the Overlay would require a General Plan Amendment (GPA) to increase the maximum allowable floor area ratio (FAR) from 2.5 to 6.0, a Zoning Text Amendment (ZTA) 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% with a Conditional Use Permit (CUP), allow ground floor residential uses, and establish development and design controls for properties within the Overlay. A Zoning Map Amendment (ZMA) is also required to establish the Downtown Housing & Economic Opportunity Overlay on applicable parcels. EKN APPELLATION HOTEL: This component of the project proposes construction of a 6-story hotel over a below-grade parking garage, comprising 93 hotel rooms, an event space, and food service uses at 2 Petaluma Blvd. South. The below-grade parking garage would provide valet parking for up to 58 vehicles using mechanical parking lifts (no self-parking is proposed). A restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating for up to 150 guests is proposed on the ground floor. Floors 2 through 5 would comprise 93 hotel rooms and a fitness room for hotel guests. Floor 6 would include a 1,444 square foot event space, and a 5,514 square foot exterior bar/event space with seating for 60 guests. The project proposes modifications to the public right-of-way including removal and replacement of three street trees, removal of two existing driveways along the Petaluma Boulevard South frontage, removal of the midblock crosswalk along B Street, removal of one curb-parking space along B Street and reconfiguration of two curb-parking spaces along Petaluma Boulevard South. The project would also include installation of a bus stop and shelter along Petaluma Blvd. North adjacent to Center Park, which would result in the loss of three on-street parking spaces.

Contact Information

Name
Olivia Ervin
Agency Name
City of Petaluma
Job Title
Principal Environmental Planner
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency

Location

Cities
Petaluma
Counties
Sonoma
Regions
Citywide
Cross Streets
Overlay: Downtown Petaluma; Hotel: Southeast corner of Petaluma Boulevard South and B Street
Zip
94954
Total Acres
12.18
Jobs
80
Parcel #
Hotel: 008-063-008, 008-063-009, and 008-063-011
State Highways
116, 101
Railways
SMART
Airports
Petaluma Municipal Airport
Schools
Mary Collins, Grant, McDowell, McKinley, McNear, Valley Vista...
Waterways
Petalum River, McNear Channel
Township
5N
Range
7E
Section
33
Other Information
Overlay General Plan land use designation: Mixed Use (MU) and Public/Semi-Public (PSP). Overlay Zoning designation: Mixed Use 2 (MU2) and Civic Facilities (CF) Hotel General Plan land use designation: MU Hotel Zoning designation: MU2

Notice of Completion

State Review Period Start
State Review Period End
State Reviewing Agencies
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 Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), 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 Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), 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 Drinking Water, District 18, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality
Development Types
Commercial (Sq. Ft. 77000, Acres 1.77, Employees 80)
Local Actions
General Plan Update, Site Plan, Use Permit
Project Issues
Aesthetics, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Energy, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mandatory Findings of Significance, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Wildfire
Public Review Period Start
Public Review Period End

Attachments

Notice of Completion [NOC] Transmittal form

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