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Rezoning from C-4 to O-M
Item # 2b
Study Calendar
Address: 350 Beach Road Meeting Date: 9/23/02
Request: Application to Rezone an 18,000 SF parcel located at 350 Beach Road from the C-4 zone
district to the O-M Zone District (C.S. 25.16).
Applicant and Property Owner: Dan Levin, Glenbarough Partners
Lot Area: 18,000 SF/0.41 Acre
General P1anBurlingame Bayfront Specific Area Plan: Office Uses
Adjacent Development: Office and Office/Warehouse Use
APN: 026-350-070 & -090
Zoning: C-4
CEQA Status: Falls within the scope of Environmental Impact Report No. 98-2P (SCH #98041109
certified by the City Council on August 7, 2000 consisting of:
Draft Environmental Impact Report, September 14, 1998
Recirculated Draft Environmental Impact Report, January 21; 1999
Response to Comments Document, April 15, 1999
Addendum/Supplement to the Response to Comments Document/November 12, 1999
Addendum to Final Environmental Impact Report, March 16, 2000
Addendum to Final Environmental Impact Report, June 21, 2000
Summary: The applicant, Glenborough Partners, applied to the Public Works Department for a lot line
adjustment which will result in the creation of two reconfigured parcels: a separate 18,000 SF parcel at
350 Beach Road, and a larger parcel (15.82 Acres) at 301 Airport Boulevard. The applicant is requesting
that the new 18,000 SF parcel at 350 Beach Road be rezoned from C-4 to O-M.
In August of 2000, the City Council approved an office project on the whole site. As a part of that
proposal, the portion of the site fronting on Beach Road was proposed to be developed as a day care center.
The conditions of approval for that project required that a separate parcel be created for the day care
center site, and that the new parcel be rezoned from C-4 to O-M to match the zoning of the surrounding
parcels on Beach Road. Although approval for the office project expired in August, 2002, the applicant
has chosen to follow through on creating the separate parcel on Beach Road. The Planning Department
required that the applicant request rezoning of the smaller parcel at the same time as the lot line adjustment
application is processed.
General Plan and Specific Area Plan: Both the Burlingame General Plan and the Bayfront Specific
Area Plan designate this property and the surrounding properties on Beach Road for off ce uses. The C-4
and the O-M zone districts are both consistent with this plan designation. The C-4, Waterfront
Commercial zone district was created to apply to land uses and site development which will benefit from
their proximity to the open water areas of the San Francisco Bay and will be beneficial to the public use of
this irreplaceable natural resource. The 0-M, Office/Manufacturing district, was created as an office/light
industrial park area which will serve as a transition between the C-4 Waterfront Commercial and the M-1
Light Industrial District. In its uses, the O-M District is consistent with the intent of the General Plan to
provide professional and administrative offices, distribution, service, light industrial and other uses
supported by access to San Francisco International Airport and the adjacent hotel, restaurant and other
bayfront commercial activities.
Rezoning from C-4 to O-M
350 Beach Road
Since the new parcel will not be directly adjacent to the bay, it is more appropriately placed in the O-M
zone district. In addition, it will be subject to the same use requirements and property development
standards (setbacks, height, lot coverage) as the O-M zoned properties which surround it on Beach Road.
If the new parcel were to remain zoned C-4, development under the C-4 regulations would be inconsistent
with the pattern of the existing O-M zoned properties in the area, since it would be the only parcel on the
block zoned C-4. It should also be noted that the creation of the new parcel on Beach Road would
preclude the 15.82 acre parcel from gaining access from Beach Road. This will help minimize the future
traffic impacts from development of the larger site to the businesses on Beach Road.
Staff Comments: The Chief Building Inspector, the Fire Marshal and the City Engineer had no comments
on this project.
Maureen Brooks
Senior Planner
c: Dan Levin, Glenborough Partners, applicant
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