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Palo Alto ARB forwards 183-unit El Camino Real project to council with design conditions
Summary
The ARB voted 3-0 to recommend that City Council approve a seven-story, 183-unit housing project at 3781 El Camino Real (23 units at the below-market rate 13% minimum). The board provided a list of preferred conditions — add an elevator, clarify bike-room circulation and move-in loading, soften garage screening and explore upper-story step-backs — and requested detailed courtyard sections and refined façade detailing.
The Palo Alto Architectural Review Board on Jan. 15 recommended that the City Council approve a seven-story, 183-unit housing project at 3781 El Camino Real, voting 3-0 to forward the application with a set of board-requested conditions and design refinements.
Developer Marissa Riley said the project includes 183 units and meets the city’s affordability target for builder’s-remedy projects: “183 units including 23 affordable units,” Riley told the board during the presentation.
Project scope and status: staff described the site as a consolidation of multiple parcels at the Curtner/El Camino intersection, with proposed demolition of roughly 10,100 square feet of commercial uses and 14 existing residential units to make way for the new building. Staff and the applicant said…
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