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Conditional Use�Permit for Retail Use
Address: 218 California Drive
Item # 2.
5tudy Calendar
Meeting Date: 8/14/00
Request: Conditional Use Permit for retail use in an existing building at 218 California Drive, zoned C-2, Subarea
D - Auto Row (C.S. 25.38.031 (2)).
Applicant: A1 Heriz APN: 029-213-030
Property Owner: Isaac & Evelyn Baumelgruen
Lot Area: 19,563 SF
General Plan: Commercial, Service and Special Sales Zoning: C-2, subarea D
Adjacent Development: Commercial and retail uses
CEQA Status: Article 19. Categorically Exempt per Section: 15301 - Existing Facilities, Class 1(a), Interior
or exterior alterations involving such things as interior partitions, plumbing, and electrical conveyances.
Previous Use: Furniture Sales - California Futon
Proposed Use: Retail Sales - Oriental Rugs
Allowable Use: Retail use other than those related to automobile sales and services with a Conditional Use
permit.
Summary: The applicant, A1 Heriz, is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a retail use for operation of a
retail rug store in an existing building at 21 S California Drive. Any retail use which is not related to automobile
sales and service requires a Conditional Use Pernut in the C-2, Subarea D zoning district. The previous use of
this tenant space was California Futons, a furniture store. �
The store will be open seven days a week, 10:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. The store intends to have 2 full-time
employee and one part-time employee seven days a week. The number of employees is expected to stay the same
over a five year period. The maximum number of customers expected to come to the site per day is 3 on
weekdays and 5 on weekends. The maximum number of people on site at any one time is expected to be four.
The building has no on-site parking and is existing nonconforming in parking because it was built prior to the code
requirements for parking. Since this use is a replacement of an existing retail use a parking variance is not
required. The building owner leases unimproved land adjacent to the Caltrain railroad tracks behind the building
across East Lane, which is available for customer parking. The leased area is not paved or striped so the exact
number of spaces available is unclear. The leased area is 15' x 200'. The lease is a one-year lease which is
automatically renewed each year, and can be terminated by Caltrain on 15 days written notice. The lease has been
in effect since 1981. Public parking is available on the street and in Lot V, across Burlingame Avenue from the
site, and in Lot M, across California Avenue from the site.
There are four other tenant spaces in this building, Computer Spectrum, an internet publisher, Rock & Roll, auto
stereo and alarms, Bark Station, a dog grooming business, and a vacant tenant space. The five tenants share a
restroom facility located towards the rear of the building.
Conditional Use Permit jor Retail Sales
Use:
Parking:
Proposed
*Retail, Rug Store
0
*Conditional Use permit required for retail use.
This project meets all other zoning code requirements.
Conditional Use permit
for non-auto retail use
0 Site is existing
nonconforming in
parking - req. pkg.
ratio is 1:400 GSF
Staff Comments: The Chief Building Inspector, the City Engineer and the Fire Marshal had no comments on this
project.
Maureen Brooks
Planner
2l8 California Drive
Previous
Allowed/Req' d
Retail, Furniture Store
c: A1 Heriz, applicant