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Council advances Oakley City Center site plan to development-agreement drafting
Summary
After a detailed presentation, councilors approved the Oakley City Center site plan (site-plan approval only) and directed staff and the developer to move forward with a development agreement that will return for required public hearings and planning-commission review.
The council advanced the Oakley City Center master site plan and directed staff to begin drafting a development agreement after a presentation by the developer’s representative (Speaker 10).
The plan showed a mixed-use village center with an enlarged marketplace footprint to accommodate a larger post office and delivery lockers, an expanded Ken’s Cash Market, retail pads for small local businesses, a pavilion and green space designed to host community events, parking configured to meet mixed-use code requirements, a proposed privacy wall (architectural treatments requested by neighbors) and trail connections. The presenter emphasized walkability, local-business tenancy and that the scheme was sized to be economically feasible for the developer. He said the full build-out would require further architectural and civil engineering design and an 18–36 month construction timeline after agreement finalization.
Councilors asked about parking counts, trail integration, historic-creamery restoration constraints and pedestrian circulation. The developer said the post office footprint was increased to roughly 3,000–3,200 square feet and that the overall mixed-use building footprint is approximately 18,000–20,000 square feet, with the Ken’s component near 12,000 square feet plus supporting retail.
On a motion to accept the site plan and move forward — noting that site-plan approval does not vest the developer and that final approvals are subject to a development agreement and subsequent hearings — the council voted to approve the site plan and authorized staff to proceed with drafting the development agreement and related documents.
The next steps are development-agreement drafting, further architectural design, engineering (sewer, water, stormwater) and public hearings by the planning commission and council before construction permits can be issued.
