City of Emeryville - File #: ID-2025-341

• File #: ID-2025-341
• Version: 1
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Department Head Report
• File created: 10/17/2025
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 11/4/2025
• Title: Community Development Director's Report on Planning Commission Actions at the October 23, 2025 meeting: (a) BESS Berkeley Emergency Storm Shelter (UP25-003) - Consideration of a Conditional Use Permit application for a temporary winter shelter at the former City Recreation Center located at 4300 San Pablo Avenue. The shelter will operate from December 1, 2025, to April 15, 2025. CEQA Status: This project is exempt from environmental review under California State CEQA Guidelines Section 15301, which applies to minor alteration of existing structures involving negligible or no expansion of use, and the “common sense exemption” at State CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) because it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the proposal may have a significant effect on the environment. General Plan Land Use Classification: Mixed Use with Residential, Major Transit Hub, and Neighborhood Retail Overlay; Zoning District: Mixed Use with Residential (MUR), Transit Hub Overl...

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Community Development Director's Report on Planning Commission Actions at the October 23, 2025 meeting:

(a) BESS Berkeley Emergency Storm Shelter (UP25-003) - Consideration of a Conditional Use Permit application for a temporary winter shelter at the former City Recreation Center located at 4300 San Pablo Avenue. The shelter will operate from December 1, 2025, to April 15, 2025. CEQA Status: This project is exempt from environmental review under California State CEQA Guidelines Section 15301, which applies to minor alteration of existing structures involving negligible or no expansion of use, and the “common sense exemption” at State CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) because it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the proposal may have a significant effect on the environment. General Plan Land Use Classification: Mixed Use with Residential, Major Transit Hub, and Neighborhood Retail Overlay; Zoning District: Mixed Use with Residential (MUR), Transit Hub Overlay (TH), Neighborhood Retail Overlay (RR) and Pedestrian Priority Zone (PP). (Applicant: Dorothy Day House - Roshone Atkins) (Owner: City of Emeryville) (APNs: 49-1079-14-1 and -17-1) 

(b) Bicycle Parking (ORD25-001) - Study Session considering a recommendation to the City Council to approve proposed amendments to Title 9 (the Planning Regulations) of the Emeryville Municipal Code to modify bicycle parking requirements in Section 9-4.408 (Bicycle Parking) in Article 4 of Chapter 4. This project is exempt from environmental review under State CEQA Guidelines under the “common sense exemption” at Section 15061(b)(3) because it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the proposal may have a significant effect on the environment.