Planning Commission Staff Report
Report Prepared by: Julie Nelson, Senior Planner, Development Services Department
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SUBJECT: General Plan Amendment #22-03, initiated by Eric Pluim on behalf of Gateway Park Development Partners, LLC, property owners. This application involves a request to change the General Plan roadway classification from Divided Arterial to Collector for a portion of Mission Avenue from Coffee Street to the east side of Pluim Drive (extended).**PUBLIC HEARING**
ACTION: PLANNING COMMISSION:
Recommendation to City Council
1) Environmental Review #22-25 (Addendum to General Plan EIR)
2) General Plan Amendment #22-03
CITY COUNCIL:
Approve/Disapprove/Modify
1) Environmental Review #22-25 (Addendum to General Plan EIR)
2) General Plan Amendment #22-03
SUMMARY
This is a request to amend the General Plan Circulation Element by changing the roadway classification from Divided Arterial to Collector for a portion of Mission Avenue from Coffee Street to the east side of Pluim Drive (extended). This change is requested to improve the circulation for future development in the area. Staff is recommending approval.
RECOMMENDATION
Planning staff recommends that the Planning Commission recommend approval to the City Council of Environmental Review #22-25 (Addendum to the General Plan EIR) and General Plan Amendment #22-03 (including the adoption of the Draft Resolution at Attachment A) subject to the conditions in Exhibit A and the findings/considerations in Exhibit B of the Draft Resolution.
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DISCUSSION
Gateway Park Development Partners is requesting the road classification for a portion of Mission Avenue be changed from Divided Arterial to Collector. The section proposed to be changed would be from Coffee Street, east to the east side of Pluim Drive (extended) (refer to the map at Attachment B). This section is adjacent to the Merced Gateway Marketplace southern boundary.
Project Description
Section 4.3.2 of Merced Vision 2030 Genera...
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