Development

[dale2...@yahoo.com]

Thanks Robert,

I read about the developer's plan for other sites in the area; this one was presented as a possibility. I definitely will attend. I use Eastern Supply and this will lead to greater gentrification, because high income folks hire workers and don't do it themselves.

dale

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[Robert Lauriston]

Nancy Skinner's SB 330, in exchange for a small percentage of moderately affordable units, or a larger percentage of even less affordable units, automatically grants the developers all discretionary elements of the local zoning code.

The only non-discretionary bit of the C-SA development standards is a floor-area ratio of 4.0, which means the building's square footage can be at most four times that of the lot. So there's no height limit. And with the 50% density bonus the FAR is 6.0. If the lot is 13,500 square feet, they can build an 81,000-square-foot building.

[Zelda Bronstein]

Robert, I think the relevant state law is CA's Density Bonus Law, not SB 330, which, in my reading, doesn't address affordable unit bonuses. Zelda

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[Robert Lauriston]

Nancy Skinner's SB 330 is what eliminated the city's discretion over building height, footprint, setbacks, etc. along Adeline and Shattuck in South Berkeley (i.e., in the C-SA district).

The earlier AB 2345 created the 50% density bonus that increases the floor-area ratio from 4.0 to 6.0, requiring the ZAB to rubber-stamp nine- and ten-story buildings in C-SA.