Point Tiburon housing proposal is deemed incomplete for third time

Tiburon officials have again rejected a Berkeley developer’s application to build nine townhomes on the Point Tiburon Plaza parking lot, deeming it incomplete for a third time, though they have now sided with the developer on two contested points.

Senior planner Kristin Teiche sent the determination June 17 to Black Oak Ventures, which has applied to build the townhomes at 1801 Tiburon Blvd.

Black Oak can appeal the ruling to the Planning Commission but must file by June 27, within 10 calendar days of the letter, using a town form and paying a fee. It could also revise and resubmit, which would restart the 30-day window to deem an application complete and the 60-day clock to approve or deny the project.

Teiche’s letter confirmed two points in the developer’s favor. Black Oak had shown that the project’s 38-foot height would reduce construction costs, she wrote, and the town cannot enforce parking requirements set in a 1983 precise development plan for Point Tiburon. But she wrote that the developer’s May 19 application still lacked a parking-lot site plan, complete property lines and information on fencing, screening, access points, lighting, accessibility, grading, drainage and landscaping.

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