...Title
PDC23-104, PD23-016, T23-016, and ER23-176 - Planned Development Zoning District, Vesting Tentative Map, and Planned Development Permit for a Property Located at 639-645 North Fifth Street and 620-642 North Fourth Street.
...Recommendations
(1) Adopt a resolution adopting the Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration for the San José Buddhist Church Betsuin Expansion Project and the associated Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, all in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act.
(2) Approve an ordinance rezoning certain real property of an approximately 1.17-gross-acre site located at 639-645 North Fifth Street and 620-642 North Fourth Street from the PQP Public/Quasi-Public Zoning District and the R-M Multiple Residence District to the PQP(PD) Planned Development Zoning District (APNS 249-41-075, -009, -022 through -025).
(3) Adopt a resolution approving, subject to conditions, a Vesting Tentative Map to combine six existing parcels into one approximately 1.17-gross-acre parcel.
(4) Adopt a resolution approving, subject to conditions, a Planned Development Permit to allow the construction of one new two-story, approximately 10,720-square-foot church education building containing alternating uses of a religious school, preschool, language school, and a privately-operated community center, including outdoor uses approximately 50 feet from a residentially-zoned property, and an approximately 1,950-square-foot auxiliary building through the demolition of an approximately 3,563-square-foot church education building and four single-family houses and one accessory building and the removal of six trees (two ordinance-size and four non-ordinance-size) on an approximately 1.17-gross-acre site.
CEQA: Mitigated Negative Declaration for the San José Buddhist Church Betsuin Expansion Project (ER23-176). Planning Commission recommends approval (9-0-1, Young absent) (Item 5.a on the 7/9/2025 Planning Commission agenda). Council District 3. (Planning, Building and Code Enforcement)