375 Technology Drive - Hotel Project

375 Technology Drive - Hotel Project

The project site is a vacant, approximately 1.1-acre parcel located at 375 Technology Drive (APN: 015-101-67) near Westgate Drive and Highway 1 in the western portion of the City. The project includes construction of a 72,348-square foot, five-story, 70-foot-tall Holiday Inn Express hotel containing 95 rooms. The project includes surface parking for 50 spaces at the rear (south side) of the site and 50 parking spaces located underneath the building, both of which will utilize mechanical stacking devices. The ground floor of the building includes an elevator, lobby, fitness room, laundry area, and indoor swimming pool. The first level of the building contains two meeting spaces, a lifestyle lounge, a breakfast area, a business center, a check-in area, and 14 guest suites. Levels 2 through 4 contain 27 rooms each (71 total units), for a total of 95 rooms for the building. The project includes landscaping along the Technology Drive frontage area, with the driveway entrance located in the northwestern corner of the site, and a frontage sidewalk along Technology Drive to connect existing sidewalks to the east and west of the site. The project also includes a request to amend the Watsonville Municipal Code Section 14-16.505(c) - “Other Requirements” to include a 75-foot maximum height limit for hotel uses. A variance is also being requested for the front yard setbacks.

Watsonville

Santa Cruz

Citywide

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, District 5 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Coast Region 3 (RWQCB), California State Coastal Conservancy (SCC), Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water

Other (Hotel, 95 rooms)

Site Plan, Use Permit

Aesthetics, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Drainage/Absorption, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire