» Pleasanton approves 500 apartments south of BART station
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 10:50AM Contra Costa Times by Denis Cuff
The City Council has approved plans for 500 apartments in the Hacienda Business Park that will help the city meet court-approved requirements to provide more affordable housing in town.
The unanimous approval on Wednesday night OKs plans by BRE Properties, a national builder of affordable housing, to construct a mixed-use housing project with about 500 apartments plus retail space.
Fifteen percent of the apartments are to be set aside for low-income renters.
The development plan calls for 18 three- and four-story buildings on two sites south of the Dublin-Pleasanton BART station. About 8.4 acres are at the corner of Owens Drive and Willow Road, and the other site covers 8.1 acres at the northern corner of Hacienda and Gibraltar drives.
The project helps the city meet terms of a lawsuit settlement with the state and Urban Habitat, which argued that Pleasanton wasn't meeting its responsibility to provide sufficient housing at below-market sales prices and rents.
In the August 2010 settlement, the city agreed to plan for more homes and drop a voter-approved growth limit cap of 29,000 housing units in town.
"The approval of the projects with a set of conditions that are acceptable to the applicant means that we were successful in fulfilling our obligations under the settlement agreement," Brian Dolan, the city's community development director, said in an email.
Many representatives for construction unions appeared before the council Tuesday night to express their unhappiness that BRE plans to use nonunion labor in constructing the development.
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Reader Comments (2)
Wow! Nice! I'm sure a lot of family who are looking for apartment sales or rentals would be eager to have these apartments that are going to be build. These apartments in the Hacienda Business Park are already an opportunity for those people who wanted to stay there yet they don't have a place to live. Furthermore, if people are also interested living or having a vacation in other places like New York City, Manhattan, South Dakota and many more, I could say that they could also stay to apartment like this or could be a penthouse apartment just like mine. I'm sure, they would pretty sure enjoy the place.
As we know that residence issues are now being one of the horrible headache for the rising population, therefore most of the real estate and construction companies are liable to construct many apartments and housing schemes from which the common man gets the proper benefits and their housing projects.
Jacob,
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