Comments on: Planning Commission Meeting – 1/13/2009

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This statement is inaccurate: “Iroonet America, Inc. has been operating a 16-resident boarding house in Dublin Ranch on Oakhurst Court without the necessary Conditional Use Permit.”. They applied for a permit – they have now received a conditional permit for 6 students + support staff. The house is not current operational.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Great news, thank John!

By: John M. Zukoski

John M. Zukoski — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Anonymous – the Planning Commission denied the CUP request without prejudice last night. I’ll be providing a summary of Boarding House item on Dublin Townhall later tonight.

Thx, John Z.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I wasn’t able to go to the Planning Commission meeting last night. Anyone know of the result of the Boarding House conditional use permit request? I hope the Commission did the right thing for a change and denied it. Otherwise we’d would have set precedent for more of these in a house near you, maybe next door to you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks Tim, you do have a point about any addition vehicle dealers. Dealers do bring in some needed tax revenue to the city as they are big ticket items, well not now with the economy the way it is but in normal time it does. Although I agree with the preference for other uses in the area instead of more dealers, I'd rather see auto dealers instead of maintenance yards, storage facilities, car service shops "mechanical/body", U-haul, equipment rental, RV rentals etc...

Along with auto dealers, these are all CODs (Car Oriented Developments) right next to BART. It would be a shame to allow the area to remain and further develop as a COD instead of a TOD. I see Offices, Residential and small scale retail as best uses for the area to complement/add to the Transit Village being built just east of it. People can actually use BART/Mass Transit to get to their jobs and or homes at the Vilage. Unlike the high density developments built or planned on the Eastern side of Dublin.

I put auto dealers as an alternative only for that there are 3 there already, it would be nice to see the last two dealers downtown move out here to free up valuable redevelopable parcels in Downtown near the West Dublin BART. Also a few dealers clustered together will help the dealers already there with added visibility. Sort of a Dublin Auto Mall West (Scarlett) and a Dublin Auto Mall East (GM and Toyota). This way we'll have dealers concentrated into two areas of the City instead of spread out all over, not to mention the old Toyota parcel as it may become another dealer which I prefer not.