Aire

aka "199 ROP" -- NE corner of River Oaks @ Zanker

Status: Under Construction, will complete Winter 2013

Permit: PRE07-226 and PDC07-102 and PD08-036

Events: Community Meeting on 199 ROP -- June 26, 2012

Developer: Baywest

Acres: 2.75 acres

Units: 293 units

Leasing Website: AireLiving.com

Details:

  • 1/15/2014: Slides shown.
  • Units reduced to 293, PDA08-036-01.
  • Community Meeting Notes from 6/26/2012:
    • HERE are the slides presented at the meeting (30MB pdf).
    • Bay West acquired tohe property in May 2012. They are a smaller development company focused on the Bay Area. See article here.
    • Construction will start this month (June 2012). Construction will take 2 years, so end June 2014. Leasing will start January 2014.
    • 293 apartment units and 2000 sqft of retail on a 3.69 acre site.
    • Total height is 5 stories, although they have flat roofs so a little lower than Crescent Village overall. 1 story underground parking, and the 1st story is parking-wrapped-by-units. The corner closest to the park is only 2 stories tall: that's where they'll have the leasing center and retail, and above that is the resident's pool. The placement of this lowered section is deliberate, it's to make the building less "massive" when looked at from the park.
    • There will be a "heavily landscaped" Emergency Vehicle Access Road (EVA) along the border of 199 ROP and Agnews. It will also be a public paseo.
    • There will be a new public road along the east side of the property, Iron Point Drive. It will be 2-lanes of traffic plus parallel parking on both sides. The street will give the option of a future connection to the Agnews site, but until Agnews builds-out it will simply dead-end.
    • "Luxury" apartments. A mix of "junior 1 bedroom", 1 bedroom, and 2 bedroom aparments, ranging from 570 sqft to 1050 sqft. Average is 870 sqft. Slight emphasis on outdoor space (balconies and podium open-space) rather than indoor.
    • Modern/contemporary/tech-forward aesthetics. Will be a combination of stucco and metal cladding. "Warm tones" in the white/grey/black with accents in red.
    • Setback of the building from ROP is: 15 feet of sidewalk PLUS 15 feet of landscaping and residential stoops. They are planning on putting in some benches along ROP to enhance the streetscape.
    • On the skinny corner of the triangle closest to Zanker, they will be keeping the 15 trees that are still standing, and relandscaping that area into a mini-open-space. (It's too small to build anything on.)
    • Iron Point Drive will have 2 garage accesses. It is where the loading/unloading zones will be. They have 446 stalls, so about 1.5 per unit. They will be promoting ZipCar, Smart Car, Electric Vehichles, etc. They will have full bike lockers and bike racks to promote bicycling. Visitor parking is limited: public access to parallel on Iron Point Drive, or a resident can buzz you into the gated garage. The parallel parking will have a 72 hour limit.
    • They will be putting in a new bus stop on ROP in front of their building. It will not be a full pullout, so it will block the bike lane. ROP should be wide enough you can squeeze around the bus.
    • A total of $4 million combined in school and park fees.
    • The new Iron Point Drive will have full access to ROP. That means they have to tear out a strip of median. But they will fill in another section (since they are removing the old industrial building's driveway to ROP). The only traffic control will be a stop sign on Iron Point Drive, ROP will go thru unimpeded. There are still some concerns about this access, they didn't seem to have provisioned for a left-hand-turn lane from ROP into Iron Point Drive, and as we all know those are useful.
    • The 2000 sqft of retail is tiny. It will likely be a very small quick-serve food vendor or something like a UPS Annex.
    • Long term these will remain apartments, managed by their partern Woodmont Real Estate.
    • They will need 90% occupancy for profitability.
    • The redwoods that we all loved are being replaced with "Chinese Pistache" trees. More information.
    • Construction will use Iron Point Drive and the EVA road for staging. ROP will continue to have temporary sidewalks and crosswalks. They will NOT have to dig up ROP for the sewer connection, they already have one. Construction traffic will go to Zanker.
  • Update 12/27/2010: This project has been cancelled by the developer.
  • Update 12/11/2008: Maps and elevation in this document. Also, some questions RONA asked of BRE and their answers:
    • Q: What traffic-controls are going to be in place in the new intersection? Is the median removed at the new intersection?
    • A: Please see the attached median exhibit - there will not any new controls (stoplight, stop sign) at our new project entrance other than the median re-work.
    • Q: What is the setback from ROP and the height of the buildings?
    • A: We have an average setback of 20' from the back of curb at River Oaks Parkway and the average building height is 55'.
    • Q: What landscaping/trees are along ROP?
    • A: We are currently planning to plant Chinese Pistache street trees along River Oaks Parkway (in the landscaping ROW) per the City's street tree guidelines. In addition we will also have shrubs, groundcover, and Japanese Blueberry trees along the private property fronting the Parkway.
  • Update 8/5/2008: Some notes from a July 14, 2008 Land Use Meeting: here.
  • Update 7/2/2008 (apparently there is a meeting scheduled for 7/14 but flyers did not reach all residents):
    • # Homes & Housing Type : 299 units- high density attached rental units
    • Proposed Density (net): 91 du/ac
    • Proposed Heights : 60 feet
    • Site Size: 3.69 acres
    • Mixed Use? Square Footage?: Residential only
    • Proposed # Parking Spaces/Parking Ratio: 520 stalls - 1.74 parking ratio
    • Current Uses on Site: Light industrial & office
    • Surrounding Uses: North - Agnews Developmental Center / South - Sony/Irvine Apartment Communities Site / West - Orchard / East - Vacant office
    • Affordability: Market rate rents and complying with SJ affordable housing ordinance
    • Current GP Designation & Zoning: IP - Industrial
    • Proximity to Transit-list bus routes or rail lines: 1/3 mile to River Oaks VTA Light Rail Stop; River Oaks Light Rail Shuttle - VTA #203 in front of property
    • Proximity to Services-retail, schools, parks, etc: Moitozo Park - ½ mile Retail & Restaurant - 0.6 mile
    • Compatibility w/Surrounding Uses: Approved 1900 rental units across the street; Existing attached residential projects 0.4 miles away along River Oaks; North Park apartment project across Zanker
    • Onsite Amenities: Recreation room, outdoor pool and spa, fitness center, yoga room, business center and conference room, outdoor courtyard and cabanas
    • Relevant Hearing Dates: Planning Commission PD Rezone 6/11/08
    • Community Concerns: Community meeting held on 3/24/08 - major concerns addressed
    • Other Information: Will contain green building features
  • Property layout diagram
  • Unit mix:
  • Current plans provide 500 normal + 14 tandem parking spaces, for a total of 514.