SCH Number 2024040565

Project Info

Title

Downtown Housing and Economic Opportunity Overlay and EKN Appellation Hotel Project

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.

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