Times: Meeting in Hercules to discuss scope of environmental report
— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 1 December 2008 — Comments Off
Hilltown and Sycamore Crossing will be discussed Wednesday evening (7pm at City Hall)…
Meeting in Hercules to discuss scope of environmental report
By Tom LochnerHercules will host a scoping meeting for the public and local agencies Dec. 3 to determine the content and scope of an environmental impact report related to two projects, Sycamore Crossing and Hilltown.
The two projects are the subject of a proposed 2009 update to the Hercules Redevelopment Plan.
Sycamore Crossing would be a residential and retail project along Sycamore Avenue wedged between San Pablo and Sycamore avenues west of Interstate 80. Hilltown, so named to evoke centuries-old Italian hill towns, is a commercial and residential project bounded by San Pablo Avenue and I-80 north of John Muir Parkway.
Incorporating the two projects would mean adding about 58 acres to the Redevelopment Plan. The project areas would need General Plan amendments and to be rezoned as Planned Commercial Residential Mixed Use districts. Hilltown, the site of oil storage tanks, currently is zoned industrial; Sycamore Crossing, commercial.
The project also calls for adding “hotel” as a conditional use in the new zoning.
The scoping meeting will be at 7 p.m. in the Hercules City Council chamber, 111 Civic Drive. For more information, call project manager Liz Warmerdam at 510-799-8231.