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Proposed for 940 S. Claremont St. are plans to build a three-story office building in a lot bounded by South Railroad Avenue, 10th Avenue and South Claremont Street.
Plans to build a five-story, mixed-use development offering 44 apartment units and ground-floor office just north of Borel Plaza in San Mateo are expected to boost the city’s housing stock should they gain traction with residents and city officials in the coming months.
At an April 3 neighborhood meeting to be held on the site of the proposed development, residents will get a glimpse of plans to provide a mix of studios as well as one-bedroom and two-bedroom units at a site across the street from the Safeway grocery store at 1655 S. El Camino Real, according to a project page on the city’s website.
Submitted Jan. 18 and revised March 21, building plans show the project will offer nearly 7,000 square feet in ground-floor office space, with residential units planned for the second through fifth floors of the building. Also included in the plans are 81 parking spaces to be provided on surface lots with 33 visitor spaces and an underground parking garage to hold 48 spots for residents.
Situated between a 76 gas station to the south of the site and an office building just north of it, the project site is located within the city’s E2 zone, which allows for professional and administrative offices as well as residential units when parcels are designated with a residential overlay district classification, according to project plans and the city’s code.
Including an insurance company, beauty salon, an art gallery and a grocery store, several small businesses are currently operating on the set of six parcels comprising the project site, where three single-family homes facing Jasmine Street also stand.
Project architect Jack Matthews said housing is allowed on the site with a conditional use permit, and noted the El Camino Real corridor is an appropriate place for the development given the site’s proximity to SamTrans bus stops and the Hayward Park Caltrain station. He hoped the project could be one of many steps taken to give workers in the city a chance to live near their work.
“It’s just another step in providing desperately-needed housing for people in our community,” he said. “Hopefully over time as we build more and more housing, the increasing cost of housing will be somewhat tempered by that.”
Proposed for 940 S. Claremont St. are plans to build a three-story office building in a lot bounded by South Railroad Avenue, 10th Avenue and South Claremont Street.
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Proposed for 940 S. Claremont St., plans to build a three-story office building in a lot bounded by South Railroad Avenue, 10th Avenue and South Claremont Street are under review, according to a city web page for the project.
Expected to join two one-story historic buildings slated for rehabilitation on the nearly 1.4-acre lot, the new building will provide 45,049 square feet of office space in a part of the city where several auto repair shops are clustered. The lot is situated in the city’s M1 zone, which was intended to allow for light manufacturing, warehouses and distribution facilities with limited air emission, noise and hazardous materials, according to the city’s code.
The project will provide 186 parking spaces in a surface lot and one level of underground parking. Though the new building will feature floor-to-ceiling windows on its exterior, the two existing buildings — one of which will provide 13,760 square feet of office space while the other offers 4,791 square feet of office — are slated to have dark, paneled exteriors with bright accents, according to a pre-application submitted Jan. 18.
A neighborhood meeting for the 1600-1620 S. El Camino Real project will be held 7 p.m. April 3 at Tammie Pereira Insurance Services at 1606 S. El Camino Real. The project is slated for review by the Planning Commission May 14.
Note to readers: This story has been changed. It was previously reported that retail was slated for the ground-floor of the five-story project proposed for 1600-1620 S. El Camino Real, but it has since been clarified that office space has been proposed for the ground-floor of the property.
I support the construction of housing, but can't they come up with a more visually pleasing style of architecture? Also, why are there no 3 bedroom units. Where are families with more than one child supposed to live?
The City of San Mateo was never intended to have so many people here. Just like San Francisco cannot accommodate everyone who wants the easy life in SF. Just like Santa Cruz is not meant for every person in the U.S. who has ideas about living there. Some people dislike winters in Nebraska, but that doesn't mean they should be accommodated in Westwood. The crisis is actually single-order economic thinking among grown men and women in the State of California.
The City of San Mateo should have considered that before allowing companies like SolarCity (now owned by Tesla) and SurveyMonkey to set up their headquarters in the town (same goes for the county and state). Now, the intentions need to change. But don't worry, there are many cities across the world that are the size of san mateo, have much more density, and are nice towns. It is possible, we just have to make some changes. Starting with building more housing.
More gentrification in SM, when will this stop. we've already built enough high density housing. Look at Bay Meadows, there's tons of development already being constructed. We can't support more buildings in heavy traffic areas, especially on ECR, Focus on Bay Meadows construction and the traffic.
Everyone complaining that we can't have housing because of traffic needs to sit down and be quiet. We need more housing. That housing should be close to transit corridors like ECR, which has excellent bus service of the same name, and close to the CalTrain so workers can get to San Francisco or San Jose. We need to stop downzoning developments and we need to stop making new parking spots. We live in one of the most walkable cities with the best weather, we should not be optimizing for lazy people that sit alone in giant SUVs complaining about the traffic. You're not IN traffic, you ARE traffic.
The retail that currently exists there is thriving (with very minimal parking) and is useful for the surrounding community; ground-floor office space doesn't make sense there (especially with the addition of parking!) This is two blocks from the Hayward Park Caltrain station; anything built here should be transit-focused.
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I support the construction of housing, but can't they come up with a more visually pleasing style of architecture? Also, why are there no 3 bedroom units. Where are families with more than one child supposed to live?
The City of San Mateo was never intended to have so many people here. Just like San Francisco cannot accommodate everyone who wants the easy life in SF. Just like Santa Cruz is not meant for every person in the U.S. who has ideas about living there. Some people dislike winters in Nebraska, but that doesn't mean they should be accommodated in Westwood. The crisis is actually single-order economic thinking among grown men and women in the State of California.
The City of San Mateo should have considered that before allowing companies like SolarCity (now owned by Tesla) and SurveyMonkey to set up their headquarters in the town (same goes for the county and state). Now, the intentions need to change. But don't worry, there are many cities across the world that are the size of san mateo, have much more density, and are nice towns. It is possible, we just have to make some changes. Starting with building more housing.
940 Claremont...you can barely get through the traffic that is already there. And with the 9th Ave. railway crossing on that block, it will be a mess.
But no worries, Hexagon will probably say there will be less traffic, as they do will every new development.
no apartments. talking about wealth disparity. why allow some millionaire to make more millions off of working gaining no equity!
More gentrification in SM, when will this stop. we've already built enough high density housing. Look at Bay Meadows, there's tons of development already being constructed. We can't support more buildings in heavy traffic areas, especially on ECR, Focus on Bay Meadows construction and the traffic.
Everyone complaining that we can't have housing because of traffic needs to sit down and be quiet. We need more housing. That housing should be close to transit corridors like ECR, which has excellent bus service of the same name, and close to the CalTrain so workers can get to San Francisco or San Jose. We need to stop downzoning developments and we need to stop making new parking spots. We live in one of the most walkable cities with the best weather, we should not be optimizing for lazy people that sit alone in giant SUVs complaining about the traffic. You're not IN traffic, you ARE traffic.
this is a phenomenal comment. +1
The retail that currently exists there is thriving (with very minimal parking) and is useful for the surrounding community; ground-floor office space doesn't make sense there (especially with the addition of parking!) This is two blocks from the Hayward Park Caltrain station; anything built here should be transit-focused.
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