The following message is from the City of Concord:
The City of Concord’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Rezoning Project addresses the need for more housing, implementing Objective 8.6 of the 2023-2031 Housing Element. This requires rezoning at least 20 acres in moderate- and high-resource areas for at least 1,000 new multifamily housing units. The City is exploring a zoning approach which allows residential development in higher intensity areas, like shopping districts, and adds housing while preserving current land use regulations. Since the project’s March 2024 launch, City staff have engaged the community through workshops, interviews, and surveys. This input informed the City Council’s direction to study seven sites for rezoning during its meeting on January 7, 2025. Completion of a Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) is expected to take 6–9 months and will assess potential impacts of the project. Upon release, the Draft EIR will be available for public review and comment. The Draft EIR will analyze air quality, cultural resources, greenhouse gas emissions, noise, public services, transportation, and utilities. Impacts on aesthetics, biological resources, and hydrology are anticipated to be less-than-significant.
The Planning Commission will hold a meeting on February 19 at 6:30 p.m. in the City Council Chamber, 1950 Parkside Drive, to receive public input on the Draft EIR preparation. While the meeting offers an opportunity for the public to share their perspectives, written comments are also a valuable way to contribute to the process.
To ensure your voice is heard, please consider submitting written comments to Assistant City Manager – Justin Ezell at justin.ezell@cityofconcord.org. Your input is important, whether or not you are able to attend the meeting.
Click HERE to see a map of the sites being proposed for rezoning.
Unfortunately I bet all will be rezoned for the high rise high density housing – imho
domo,
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The property owners for these selected properties want their properties to have this additional high-density zoning.
At 20 acres available and 1000 units wanted, thats about 0.02 acre per housing unit. The only way to get that many units in there to be high rise type apartments.
Oh JOY,
Concord should also prepare a CIR (Crime Impact Report).
Monument corridor, 1960s attempt at affordable housing how’s crime in that area?
Or antioch’s Sycamore Drive area, have driven down Sycamore during daylight hours and saw five APD vehicles all on separate calls. Latest attempt to reduce assaults and property crimes in Sycamore area is metal fencing with keyed access.
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“Affordable housing”, especially multi story can rapidly become crime magnets, driving down surrounding property values.
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Citizens of Concord be VERY careful what you allow to happen.
Some on city council are out to make a name for themselves as they fantasize about gaining higher office. Take a look at Todos Santos arches those cute bronze plaques with names of then city council members.
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An realistically will there still be a housing crisis, in four years ? ? ? ?
Is this a state wide “crisis “, or could it remotely be an attempt by democrats to use supply and demand to drive down housing costs. Real estate has usually highest return on investment, if supply goes up prices come down.
Can liberals be trusted ? ? ? ?
The surrounding neighborhoods should be appalled! Nobody wants this creep show to continue.
Kmart and Sears was liquidated for this. Transformco is the land owner who is turning from a retail business to real estate company. They rug pulled Kmart and Sears to build crap communist bloc housing for nimrods who drive EVs. It’s a shame.
Residential zoning & CEQA should be abolished. Let anyone build any kind of housing anywhere in California. Fast track the permits. Let them break ground in 90 days. I’m tired of the NIMBYs undermining future generations.
Rezoning the KMart for housing is an excellent idea and I hope they do it. The Clayton Rd. corridor between Treat and Kirker Pass is an abysmal display structures from the 1960s, many of which are empty. There has been very little investment in or improvements to this area for 10 years or more. It just sits there festering. It seems many people oppose any development at all. This may have been a good plan a long time ago, but now we are suffering economically from not building nearly enough.
Bill Bob the economy does not suffer. It is the people that suffer. Get that through to your misers and minions. Purveyors of scab labor and cheap elitist mindsets.
we got enough people here already its a horrible idea and I hope they don’t do it
Putting high-density, low-income housing into an area described as “an abysmal display structures from the 1960s, many of which are empty” would only serve to plunge that and the surrounding area into a crime-ridden hole! What we need in the area is community revitalization, which is something we don’t get from the city. We need vibrant stores and nice restaurants, not low-income mass housing in an area with no infrastructure to support it! Come on, city council quit working to screw up the entire city! How about trying to think outside the box? We know where that is going to lead us!
Sign from Above,
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The Concord City Council is doing this because it’s being mandated by the State of California. The Concord City Council and the Concord City Manager lack the will to fight the state on this matter, so they’re rolling over and capitulating to the demand of the state.
It’s not the City of Concord’s wish to build multifamily housing.
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It’s mandated by the State. If you’re gonna wield pitchforks, take aim at your Governor Newsom and retards like Senator Scott Wiener (D-SF).
Exit 12A,
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You forgot Concord’s own corrupt, crooked, lying, cheating, preacher, and State Senator Tim Grayson and his YIMBY (Yes In My Back-Yard) backers.
This is the worst idea! Create it in East County, We already have enough issues as is in Concord. This is just going to create more problems.
Has anyone driven down Willow Pass Road in Bay Point? There are multiple empty lots there. It would be perfect for this type of housing. They don’t have to tear down anything.
City of Concord won’t get the sweet sweet state money stolen from taxpayers to build the communist utopia for the low class. It’s only diversity.
That Guy,
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The State of California designated the areas in East Concord and South Concord where high-density zoning changes are required to take place. Those lots in Bay Point don’t meet the criteria set by the State of California. Some of these designated properties are already zoned for housing and commercial development, these zoning changes will be in addition to the existing zoning, not in place of the existing zoning.
No matter what the good people of Concord want, the City Council will obey the dictates of their betters, those who hold the other end of the Council’s leash.
The planning commissions seem to have read a lot of science fiction and think the way of the future is everyone is a bunch of high rises (look at the Vancouver, BC skyline as an example). No monster home for you! If so, you will be asked to house a bunch of people you do not know. How great does that sound?
Captain Bebops,
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This isn’t the idea of the Concord Planning Commission, it’s being mandated by the State of California. The City of Concord and the Concord City Council lack the will to fight the state mandates.
More like they don’t know what to do so they go with the state’s program. Like I keep saying, today’s politicians are opportunists and in the game for themselves (and back pocket). 🙂
Why have they not just put low income housing on the Naval Weapons property?
Killjoy,
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Do you think that those who live near the former CNWS property want low income housing near them anymore than you do? The former CNWS property isn’t ready for development at this time and the State of California told the City of Concord that the former CNWS property can’t be used for this rezoning.
Fell asleep reading that headline.
they should make it an indoor paintball or airsoft field
theunforgiven,
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Who is “They”? You’re free to lease or purchase the building and make your vision a reality.
An indoor cattle range with a steakhouse and leather apparel outlet.
Methane containment will please the climate change enthusiasts.
Excellent; very bay area chic.
Worst idea ever. I’ve seen people mention it here countless times– which by the way, some people were joking. If you turn K-mart into apartment housing, it’s just going to downgrade the area. Of course, anyone running Concord that allowed Dutch Bros to open in such a small space, needs their head examined, so I don’t have much faith in whomever is making decisions for the city. There’s plenty of other spaces for housing and plenty of other shopping centers where there’s hardly any tennants. Clayton Road is highly visible and traveled. What really needs to happen with K-mart is to entice businesses there. How about getting OSH to relocate? You would NEVER know OSH is where it is, due to the poor layout of that center… whereas if they moved to Kmart, they would be highly noticable. What if they knocked Kmart and those two side businesses down and build a bunch of smaller units for retail or food?
That makes too much sense. It will never happen. Not in my backyard!