"The community meeting to talk about the plans for the Silver Spur property takes place at the restaurant, 2650 Soquel Dr., on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m. The public is invited. . . .
[Silver Spur’s owner, Daniel] Govea said that the project will feature 189 units of housing on a site that includes the Spur and some neighboring businesses and properties."
In 2023 SCMTD began, with the help of several local artists, to transform a number of Santa Cruz public transit buses into rolling works of art. By the end of 2024, SCMTD expects to have 30 buses repainted with images from famed nature photographer Franz Lanting and others. And next year the buses will have a new transit center to park in.
Another week, another informational meeting on another Workbench mixed-use development project. Those people are busy! The images above are a finished-project rendering from the developer on the left and a current site view on the right, seen from approximately the same direction on Mission Street. Below is info from the city, including about a community meeting this coming Monday, Sep. 30.
"Project Description
SB330 Only Preapplication to combine three lots and construct a six-story mixed use development with a partial rooftop deck consisting of ground floor commercial space and 68 residential units on a property located within the C-C (Community Commercial) zone district and within the Mission Street Urban Design Plan Area.
A community meeting is required pursuant to the City's Community Outreach Policy for Planning Projects, and the feedback provided may contribute to alterations in the project design and additional project entitlements.
September 30, 2024 Virtual Community Meeting:
On September 30, 2024 a virtual community meeting will be held for 1811, 1815, 1819 Mission Street, CP24-0122. Below you will find the link to the community meeting. For those who cannot attend, the community meeting will be recorded, posted, and available on this webpage after the meeting.
Join the Virtual Public Community Meeting for 1811, 1815, 1819 Mission Street on September 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM.
You are invited to attend a Public Community Meeting, to be held on Monday, September 30, 2024 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM, for the project application related to 1811, 1815, 1819 Mission Street, Project Number: CP24-0122.
Community members can click the link below to join the community meeting:
Associate Planner, Rina Zhou
(831) 420-5104; rzhou@santacruzca.gov"
"Community members can click the link below to join the community meeting:When: September 16, 2024 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)Topic: Virtual Community Meeting for Project 1024 Soquel Avenue (CP24-0100)Webinar Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81098434200Webinar ID: 810 9843 4200Call: 669 444 9171"
And at Soquel Drive at Thurber Lane:
Those who have been around Santa Cruz for more than a few years will remember this site as the long-vacant corner of Thurber Lane where a big Christmas tree lot used to set up every year, on Soquel Drive just east of Dominican Hospital. The Anton/Devco development firm is now proposing a five-building project on the corner site, with 188 apartments. The rendering below is a by the developer, looking from Soquel Drive, with Thurber Lane on the left. More information, and a complete plan set, are available from the Anton Solana website.
Completed:
During the past three years, this blog has reported on a lot of development projects involving large new buildings. It's August, a time of year when projects that are going to break ground this year have already done so. So which ones are completed, which are under construction, and which have not started? Here are the first 50 - remainder to come next week.
Completed:
The development proposal, by the local firm called Workbench, began the approval process sooner than 850 Almar, but will probably take longer, because it's larger, mixed-use, and the apartments will not be 100% affordable. The rendering below looks at the development from Almar Avenue, with a bit of the rail trail seen at far left. We'll compare and contrast these two proposals later, as they move through the approvals process. Note that, because of recent state legislation, the process will be much quicker than in the past.
And below is some of the city planning dept. info about the project and the upcoming August 7 Planning Commission public hearing:
Restoration has been a long time coming to Capitola's Rispin Mansion, and it has often seemed like it would never come at all. The now-unusable 7,000+ square-foot mansion was last occupied in 1959, and the City of Capitola bought the property in 1985, but just this year construction finally began to turn the landscaped and extensively hardscaped grounds into a city park named "The Park at Rispin Mansion". In 2011, the city "entombed" the building by restoring its roof and floor, and closing up all openings to the outside. No further restoration of the building is planned. Situated across Wharf Road from the new Capitola library (see Changes post #), the new park will be another nice public amenity in that neighborhood.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published the photo above on June 20. The caption reads:
"A drone photo taken Thursday morning shows the grading that has taken place in the East Meadow at UC Santa Cruz as construction has begun near the intersection of Coolidge and Hagar drives for a project UCSC is calling Student Housing West. According to the university, the project will provide housing for about 3,000 students at two sites, which will be constructed in two phases. The first phase, known as the Hagar Development, will take up about 120,000 assignable square feet on 17 acres in the East Meadow. The development, which is intended for students with families, will include 140 two-bedroom apartment units in 35 two-story, four-plex buildings, a childcare facility, community building, a maintenance building and a wastewater treatment plant. The second phase of the project, known as the Heller Development, includes approximately 950 housing units in six, five to seven-story buildings spanning 780,000 assignable square feet that are a mix of apartment and communal style units and a new wastewater treatment plant. University staff and faculty were joined by a coalition of community members who fought unsuccessfully to stop the project, saying that the East Meadow should be preserved as a natural landscape. They also challenged the university’s promise to offer affordable rents. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)"
As noted in the caption, this is a two-phase project on two widely-separated sites on the UCSC campus. The Hagar Development, located at one of the most open and prominent street corners on the campus, will replace the view below:
