Transit Village Project Taking Shape

A special joint meeting of the San Carlos City Council and Planning Commission will be held on Monday to discuss improvement measures for the San Carlos Transit Village project.

Although no decisions will be made, the meeting responds to the council’s request made in January that the two groups meet to review, discuss and provide guidance on the project’s recommended improvements.

The planning commission developed these improvement measures, such as height, parking and architectural design, at previous public hearings on the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR).

Improvement measures contained in the FEIR include:

1. Design of a driveway into the parking lot and provision for a left turn pocket on El Camino Real at Cherry Street;
2. Improvements at the intersection of El Camino Real and Holly Street;
3. Employing Best Management Practices to reduce construction noise; and
4. Including water conservation methods in construction and landscaping.

Improvement measures developed by the planning commission include:

1. Landscape screening;
2. Planning for the railroad corridor remainder lands;
3. Consideration of Climate Action Plan reduction strategies;
4. Potential disruptions to Old County Road;
5. Bicycle travel ways within the development;
6. Crosswalk improvements at Cherry Street and Arroyo Avenue;
7. Submittal of a Parking Lot Design;
8. Requiring the project’s commercial parking within parking garages,
9. Requiring an expanded parking lot with a shared parking agreement with the City;
10. Contribution to a Residential Permit Parking program, should one be created; 
and,
11. Requiring noise attenuating construction materials on the east facing façade of 
the proposed project.

The Planning Commission and City Council will hold additional public hearings on the project later in the spring and summer.

The meeting will be held March 18 at 7 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 600 Elm Street. 

To view copies of the council report, attachments and documents for this meeting, click here, or click on the individual PDFs below.

• Staff Report - Draft Improvement Measures (PDF, 83 kb)
• Attachment 1 - Improvement Measures & Issues Matrix (PDF, 146 kb)
• Attachment 2 - Spano Report - Transit Village Stakeholder Mediation Process (PDF, 72 kb)
• Attachment 3 - Issues Matrix from Mediation Meetings (PDF, 48 kb)
• Attachment 3a - Caltrain Joint Powers Board (JPB) Letter (PDF, 208 kb)
• Attachment 3b - Samtrans Letter (PDF, 166 kb)
• Attachment 3c - Building Site Map (PDF, 174 kb)

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