The Planning Commission met to consider the Precise Plan and Design Review for Phases 2D, 3D, and 4D of the Oyster Point Redevelopment Project. The proposed development includes 1,707,000 square feet of Office/R&D space, 48,000 square feet of amenity space, two parking garages accommodating 4,445 spaces, and improvements to the waterfront trail and open spaces. Staff presented the project as consistent with the 2011 Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and recommended approval based on a 2020 Environmental Checklist finding no new significant impacts.
Chair Wong and fellow commissioners. My name is Billy Gross with the planning division. I'll be presenting this evening. So I'm going to start off giving you a little bit of background of when this project was originally approved, kind of how we got to this point. So this first aerial shows the Oyster Point Peninsula basically as it existed when the project was originally approved back in twenty eleven. Portions of the city owned sites were under separate leases that were controlled by a third party. And so at that time, the city entered into an agreement with at that point, it was S. K. Schornstein. But we also created a lot of plans for public improvements on the site. So in 2011, March of 2011, the city council approved a general plan amendment, a zoning amendment, use permits, transportation demand management plan, phase one precise plan, a disposition and development agreement, development agreement, and other entitlements to allow the construction of approximately 2.25 million square feet of a lab campus across an approximately 45-acre developer-owned site. And that's what you see as the office RD phase one, two, three, and four on this drawing. In addition, two phases of infrastructure and open space improvements were approved throughout the site and across the adjacent 40-acre site owned by the city. So breaks up into phases 1C, 2C, and then 1D through 4D. Note that a C after a phrase after a phase refers to activities involving the city and/or former redevelopment agency lands, and a D refers to the developer. So first we'll start with the phase one C improvements, which includes infrastructure improvements. So new streets and utilities, clay cap repairs over the existing landfill, reconfigured parking areas, and open space improvements. If you look at Oyster Point Boulevard as it currently goes, and then look at this drawing, there is a reconfiguration of Oyster Point where it goes further out towards the water and then T's to go north-south and east west. So that's one of the big portions, and it's part of that, all new utilities within that new right-of-way. But also phase one C includes a lot of open space improvements, new recreation areas, beach park areas, improved bay trail, and a palm promenade. Construction work began on this phase in November of 2017. It is anticipated that we would switch over to the new Oyster Point Road in the first quarter of 2021. And all work, including all the open space improvements, would be complete by early 2022. And this is showing the the one C in a little bit more detail. And this is a uh artist rendering of what that could look like when it was complete. I will also note uh that the original approvals included a future hotel site, which anticipated a hotel of up to 350 rooms on the highlighted parcel. The city has entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement, exclusive negotiating rights agreement with uh a company or developer called Ensemble and staff anticipates bringing entitlements forward to the planning commission and city council for that hotel project later in uh 2020. Now we'll start getting into the the developer project. Phase 1D is currently under construction and it includes uh 508,000, a minimum of 508,000 square feet of office RD buildings. Uh this is anticipated to be complete by late 2021. Uh and this is a uh earlier uh aerial renderer or graphic representation of what that would look like with the three separate buildings over a podium parking. So tonight the developer Kilroy is before the planning commission to review their proposed precise plans for the remaining developer parcels, which are phases 2D, 3D, and 4D. This shows the separate phases in a little bit more detail. So phase 2D is shown in blue, just to the north of the reconfigured Oyster Point Boulevard and phase 1D. Phase 3D is shown in purple, and phase 40 is shown in orange. So this is a uh graphic over the overall site plan, and we'll go into more specifics for each, starting with phase two D. This will comprise the largest sub-development within the entire project with three buildings totaling approximately 775,000 square feet of a lab campus and a 10-level parking structure. Um the parking area is the building that's at the uh bottom left of the four, and the other three are the uh the interior of the 2D site will create the primary open space area and will also include approximately 48,000 square feet of amenity space. So where you says F that's a food embedded, and then says gym that's also uh space one rendering. I'm gonna allow the uh applicant and the architectural team to go through all that. They have a lot of these types of images, but I wanted to have at least one that shows a little bit more graphically what um the intent of of the aesthetic is and and how this uh improvement will will look over the full portion. Um this is a rendering looking across from phase 1D into the interior of phase 2D. The building at the forefront is representational of the architectural scale and detailing proposed throughout the campus, while the parking structure and first of the amenity buildings are shown uh to the left. But again, the applicant team will go into more detail on those portions. And then same, there are some uh these are some representational open space renderings. This is more of the interior spaces between the buildings uh to give an idea uh and more to come with the applicants' presentation. Moving a little bit north, we move into phase 3D, which consists of two six-story buildings with about 428,000 square feet of on the west side of Oyster Point Boulevard. To the east of the reconfigured Oyster Point Boulevard is a nine-level parking structure. This would serve both phases 3D and 4D. And then further north is phase 4D, which would consist of two buildings totaling approximately 464,000 square feet.