Supervisors approve 4‑lot subdivision in Fairview over staff recommendation

Alameda County supervisors voted to uphold an applicant appeal and approve a four‑lot subdivision of a 33,100‑square‑foot property in the Fairview area, reversing a planning‑director denial and staff’s recommendation to reduce the project to three lots.

Planning staff presented the item as a de‑novo appeal of the planning director’s denial of vesting tentative parcel map PM 11222 (PLN‑202100110). Damien Curry, the staff planner, said the proposal would create four residential parcels served by a new private driveway from Maderos Avenue, include on‑site stormwater retention, and comply with minimum zoning parcel sizes but fall below what staff calculated as the prevailing lot size in the surrounding neighborhood. Staff reported a revised prevailing‑lot‑size calculation of roughly 6,400 square feet and recommended approval of a three‑lot subdivision to avoid creating lots “substantially smaller than the prevailing lots.” (Staff: Albert Lopez; Planner on the record: Damien Curry.)

The applicant’s attorney, Brian Winter of Miller Starr Regalia, argued the project is entitled to protections under the Housing Accountability Act and related state housing laws and that the prevailing‑lot‑size standard is…