4076-4080 Lafayette Place — Project Review Committee Comments

Planning identifies the application as incomplete and states that, after a complete resubmittal, staff would prepare a report and schedule a Planning Commission public hearing within 60 to 90 days with a 21-day public-comment period.

The source says an SB 330 preliminary application was submitted February 18, 2026 and describes the vesting and resubmittal consequences associated with that filing.

The proposed project would demolish existing improvements on two adjacent parcels and construct a six-story, 70,678-square-foot, 40-unit residential building with 44 parking spaces. The unit program includes three Very Low-Income and three Moderate-Income units.

Mobility & Traffic Engineering records an estimate of 204 net new daily trips and says further VMT impact analysis is not required under the City's stated threshold because the project is below 250 daily trips. The division nevertheless requires baseline volume and speed data on Lafayette Place and Braddock Drive and analysis of current and anticipated traffic volumes and speeds.

Public Works conditions include a four-foot alley dedication, alley repaving, reconstruction of the alley approach, replacement of sidewalk along Braddock Drive and Lafayette Place, two new street trees on Lafayette Place, undergrounding of new utility lines, and a Construction Traffic Management Plan.

The Mobility & Traffic Engineering conditions require four short-term bicycle parking racks in the public right-of-way and a sight-visibility triangle at the alley/Braddock Drive corner.

The Planning conditions require replacement-unit compliance and an affordable-housing agreement if a density bonus is approved, with restricted affordable units subject to long-term affordability requirements stated in the source.

Cultural Affairs states that the project triggers the City's Art in Public Places Program, subject to the valuation and exemption calculations described in the document.