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PlanningBoard | 2007-07-09 | 4 | 012 and UP06-0013; - Applicant: Safeway, Inc. 2234 Otis Drive (adjacent Alameda Towne Centre) (DG). The applicant requests approval of Planned Development Amendment, Major Design Review and Use Permits allowing the demolition of an existing bank building and redevelopment of the property with a gas station. The project includes three covered pump islands, each containing three pumps, for a total of eighteen pumping stations. Fuel will be stored in three 20,0000 gallon underground storage tanks. In addition to the approximately 7,500 square-foot canopy covering the gasoline pumping facilities, the project includes an approximately 625 square-foot building, housing the cashier's desk, restrooms and retail sales of convenience items. The applicant is proposing twenty-four hour operations and the sale of beer and wine. An Initial Study / Mitigated Negative Declaration has been prepared for this project. Mitigation measures have been identified that will reduce potentially significant impacts to a less than significant level. The site is located within a, Central Business District with Planned Development overlay Zoning District (C-2-PD). (Continued from the meeting of June 25, 2007.) Mr. Garrison presented the staff report and recommended approval of this item. The public hearing was opened. Dan Goldwin, project architect, noted that on June 23, 2007, the Board requested that the number of pumps be reduced. He noted that they accomplished their goal of keeping the driveway openings to less than 70 feet, and that they were now 62 feet. In response to an inquiry by Board member Mariani regarding peak hours, Mr. Thomas replied that Condition 14 stated that they would be 7:00-9:00 a.m. and 4:00-6:00 p.m. on weekdays. On weekends, peak hours would be 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. No fuel trucks would be allowed to make deliveries between those hours. Dorothy Reid spoke in opposition to this project, and noted that from the beginning of the project, she believed this would be the worst possible location for this gas station. She noted that it backed up into a very narrow roadway, and that traffic jams were already occurring with the center being 50% leased. She believed the gas station would be better located in the corner of the center. She inquired how much room for error there was in the truck turning space, and noted that she was very concerned about the two second left turns. She inquired how the tanker truck could leave the center without if couldn't turn into the gas station to get onto Otis Drive. She was also concerned about where the Safeway.com trucks would be parked. She expressed concern about Mitigation 6 on page 8, which stated that the traffic light would be installed in 10 years. She realized that the stoplight was included in the CIP, and that the 10-year period would give the City some leeway, but she did not understand why a mitigation would take 10 years to install. She requested clarification of Mitigation #7, which stated that the applicant will have Otis Drive go right in and out if a traffic signal is installed. She understood that a traffic signal must be installed, and inquired when that would occur. She believed that the five-year monitoring period in Mitigation #8 was too short a period of time, and believed the Page 4 of 11 | PlanningBoard/2007-07-09.pdf |