Sunnyvale planning commission approves condo map, allows below-market-rate alternative compliance option for El Camino project

On Sept. 8 the Sunnyvale Planning Commission voted 6-0, with Commissioner Fragoni absent, to approve a modification to the site development permit and a new vesting tentative map for a 3.56-acre project at 1104 and 1124 West El Camino Real that will allow the developer to create condominium units in a previously approved mixed-use building and to pursue a below-market-rate alternative compliance plan.

The action authorizes a change to Condition GC-8 of the original approval for file 2018-7798 and finds the project consistent with the El Camino Real Specific Plan environmental review; staff recommended approval and concluded no additional CEQA review is required under CEQA Guidelines section 15183. Julia Klein, principal planner for the city, summarized that the map would give the developer the option to sell condominium units within the mixed-use building and that there is "no change in the units in either the exterior design, the site layout, or the total number of, units, as was approved back in August 2024."

Why it matters: the approval lets the owner convert a 111-unit mixed-use building (plus five detached single-family lots) from a rental configuration to condominium ownership in whole or in phased parts, while leaving in place the previously approved ground-floor commercial space. The alternative compliance path being authorized by the condition change allows the…