Planning Commission: Undergrounding of Utilities near 408 Linda Avenue Removed from Agenda and Project Reviews for Annual City Design Awards
The developers of the 408 Linda Avenue condominium project have asked that their request to eliminate utility undergrounding of overhead utilities serving the properties across Linda Avenue not be considered at the Monday, February 8, 2016, the Planning Commission meeting. The condominiums are under construction on the site of the former PG&E building site next to the Oakland Avenue bridge. In the past, the issue has proven to be controversial.
The agenda had listed the item as:
MINOR AMENDMENT TO A VESTING TENTATIVE MAP
408 Linda Avenue
“An application for Minor Amendments to an Approved Tentative Map has been submitted by Piedmont Station LLC, project developers of the Piedmont Station Townhouse development proposed at 408 Linda Avenue (the site of a former PG&E Substation). The Application seeks to modify the utility plan of the approved Vesting Tentative Map so that overhead utilities serving the properties across Linda Avenue remain in place on the project’s Linda Avenue street frontage, and to modify Condition SUB-5 placed on the approval of Vesting Tentative Map (Application #11-0062).”
The Planning Commission meeting is an open public meeting and broadcast live on Cable Channel 27 and live streamed on the City website.
The Planning Commission annually presents design awards to selected projects constructed during the prior year.
The Regular Session of the Commission will start at 5 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers and will be suspended for a “Special Session,” open to the public, in the City Hall Conference Room at approximately 6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. during the time when the Commission takes their dinner break. During their break, the Commission will review projects completed in 2015 for the City’s annual Design Awards program, and will select winners for the March 14th Design Awards Presentation and Reception.
The “Special Session” will not be recorded or broadcast. The Regular Session will resume immediately after the Special Session dinner break.
