San Mateo planning panel approves special-use permit for 200 North Quebec basketball training facility with limits on hours and parking

The San Mateo City Planning Commission on Feb. 25 approved a special-use permit to allow a community-service use — a basketball training facility — at 200 North Quebec Street, a former Boys & Girls Club building, and attached conditions limiting hours and specifying parking arrangements.

The commission voted to adopt staff’s recommendation and add a condition requiring the project to follow the applicant’s operations plan but setting maximum hours of operation at 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends; the motion also removed seasonal-month restrictions originally in the operations plan. The resolution passed by recorded vote.

Staff said the subject property is in the R1C single-family zoning district and is a legal nonconforming building that predates current standards; earlier code enforcement found the property had been used in ways that required a special-use permit. Principal planner Elaine Ling told the commission the application was pared back from an earlier proposal: “Eventually, the childcare and daycare service use were eliminated from this application. Currently, the application only proposed to legalize the basketball training facilities,” and the scope consists of interior, nonstructural restroom alterations only.…