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Planning commission backs scheme C for City Place Santa Clara with extra review for data centers
Summary
The Planning Commission voted to recommend City Council adopt an addendum to the City Place Santa Clara EIR and approve zoning and development‑agreement amendments to add a ‘scheme C’ that allows light industrial uses on Parcels 1 and 2, but commissioners modified staff’s draft to require additional Planning Commission review for data centers.
The Santa Clara Planning Commission on June 11 recommended City Council approve a set of changes to the long‑planned City Place Santa Clara project, including an addendum to the project EIR and an amendment to the master community plan to add a new “scheme C” land‑use scenario. The change would allow light industrial and advanced manufacturing uses on Parcels 1 and 2 of the 240‑acre site while concentrating the project’s office and mixed‑use development in the city‑center parcels.
City staff said the total permitted gross square footage for the master community remains unchanged at 9,160,000 square feet; the draft scheme shifts up to 1,600,000 square feet of light industrial uses to Parcels 1 and 2 and increases intensity in the city‑center parcels to keep the overall total constant. Nimisha Agrawal, senior planner, described design guidelines in scheme C intended to buffer industrial parcels from adjacent residential…
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