Development

This project at the corner of San Bruno Avenue and Glenview Drive (across from Lunardi’s) was updated in May 2024 to include 58 townhome-style condominium units. Of these, 6 homes will have ADA floor plans, 49 homes will be offered at market rate, 3 homes for low-income families, and 6 for moderate income families. This project will also include installing a new four-way stop sign at the intersection of San Bruno Avenue and Glenview Drive.

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The sale of the high school property is pending from San Mateo Union High School District to Summerhill Homes, and is expected to close in January 2025. This project will include 156 Single Family detached 2-story homes and includes the dedication of land for playing fields for our community.

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This site was agreed to be sold by San Bruno Park School District to Pulte Homes in 2018. The project envisions. 118 single family homes and common open spaces across the 21-acre site. The sale in still in escrow and the plans are under review.

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This project next to Jack’s Restaurant near 380 will be the permanent home for the Hyundai/Genesis auto dealership currently in temporary space at the former Sears at Tanforan. The sale was finalized in July 2024 and construction is expected to commence later this year.

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We finalized and adopted the Bayhill Specific Plan to allow for YouTube’s planned expansion of their global headquarters. This development will bring $54 million in community benefits to San Bruno.

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When we learned that the Tanforan Mall was going to be put up for sale, we took immediate action to compile a fact sheet entitled Reimagining Tanforan and distributed it nationally…letting potential developers know what we as a community were looking for on that site. This led to the purchase of the property by Alexandria (who built Mission Bay in San Francisco along with many other developments in the Bay Area and across the U.S.) who plans on developing a mixed-use community combining commercial, retail (including a new Target and refreshed Century Theaters) and over 1,000 units of needed housing that is almost perfectly aligned with our initial vision. This is a prime example of us making our own destiny.

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Another key development is not actually located in San Bruno but will impact us: the Southline development in South San Francisco east of the San Bruno BART station. The plan will extend Sneath Lane directly to the project and the original proposal had the developer paying for the new intersection and that’s it. We recognized immediately that this project would result in South City getting all of the tax revenue while San Bruno would get all of the traffic, so we successfully negotiated $10 million in community benefits to be used for infrastructure and other improvements in the area.

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This project on the Former Melody Toyota site will have 134 units, all of them affordable, with 25 parking spaces. This project is being built under new state laws that allow projects like this to be built without approval from the local Planning Commission nor City Council; if the project meets objective building standards it goes up. While I applaud the addition of needed housing I am worried about what impact having limited parking will have on the surrounding neighborhood and will be watching closely as the project is completed.

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Like the project at 732-740 El Camino, this project on the site of the former AT&T building on San Bruno Avenue west of El Camino is being built under new state laws that make projects with 100% affordable housing exempt from approval from our Planning Commission and City Council. This development will include 341 affordable units with 109 parking spaces.

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The Mills Park project which was approved by the City Council in 2020 remains entitled and ready for permits; the developer asked for and was granted an extension of the development agreement in 2022.

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We cannot ignore that we desperately need housing here in the Bay Area, and every city including San Bruno must do its part to add units and address the problem. I do believe that it is possible to encourage development that adds units while minimizing the impact on our existing neighborhoods. While on the Planning Commission, I advocated for a reduction in scope for the Mills Park development to address congestion issues for the surrounding neighborhood, and our Commission sent a unanimous resolution to City Council to ask them to work with the developer to achieve this. Unfortunately this proposal was rejected, and this contributed to the (temporary) death of the entire project. The project came back in June 2020 with a reduction in scope…specifically the removal of the Whole Foods store which reduced traffic impact on the surrounding neighborhood by 70%, and with over $5 million in additional guaranteed benefits to the City compared to the original plan that failed. This plan was approved unanimously by City Council.

I feel for our neighbors in Mills Park who live near this project and who will need to live through the construction and its aftermath, and if elected I will join my council colleagues in insisting that the developer take every reasonable step possible to reduce disruption in the neighborhood as construction proceeds.

It’s important to understand that I support smart development, and that I’m not a “build it, just not next to me” person. To illustrate, the Crestmoor High School site will be up for discussion soon with a proposal to build hundreds of homes. Because I live nearby, I will be recused from voting on anything related to that project in my current position as Planning Commissioner or if I’m lucky enough to be elected to council. My family and my neighbors will see a substantial increase in traffic when those homes go in. But I will still speak out, as a resident, in support of responsible development at the Crestmoor site, because we need housing. My only caveat will be to insist that the new property owner save the sports fields for our kids.