Kramer Commons tentative map. Image from the Nov. 20 Hollister Planning Commission agenda packet.
Kramer Commons tentative map. Image from the Nov. 20 Hollister Planning Commission agenda packet.

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Hollister planning commissioners on Nov. 20 unanimously approved a reduction of four residential lots from the North Chappell Road project known as Kramer Commons. 

Commissioner Steven Belong was absent from the meeting.

Originally approved in 2023, the project will now consist of 86 residential units, including 70 single family homes and 16 lots planned for duet units. It’s located on 421 North Chappell Road adjacent to Hwy 25, east of the San Felipe Road intersection. 

City Planning Manager Eva Kelly said the changes were made because the applicant moved the duets to the southern end of the parcel to better comply with noise regulations. She said duets have a “slightly different noise [mitigation] requirements” than the detached single family units. 

She added that the developer was required to address noise without building sound walls, which the council opted to move away from along that corridor when the Chappell Road master plan was being analyzed in 2015. She said the property was annexed into the city in 2019.

The approved changes also include increasing the dedicated park square footage from 1.58 acres to 3.03 acres adjacent to Hwy 25.

According to the staff report, the lots designated for single-family homes would be at least 4,400 square feet and lots for duets would be at least 3,360 square feet. The project is on 18.24 acres currently under agricultural use.

The project is part of the city’s North Chappell Master Plan which includes the Everglen subdivision, a project under construction for 82-single family units and a commercial area near the corner of San Felipe Road and Hwy 25.

According to the report, the city adopted the environmental impact report in June 2018 for the site of the Kramer Commons project under the assumption that it would be developed within five years and that it would “yield up to 147 single family units.”

Area of the Chappell Road master plan. Image from the Everglen Park plan. Kramer Commons is located north of the Everglen Project (marked with red dashes).

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