Sunnyvale is getting ready to trade lab coats for front porches.
The Sunnyvale Planning Commission on Monday signed off on a plan to tear down two aging office and research campuses on De Guigne Drive and replace them with 370 homes, voting 6-0 to move the proposal forward. The project would bring 329 primary for-sale units plus 41 accessory dwelling units, reshaping the eastern edge of Sunnyvale and, according to planners and neighbors, cranking up pressure on local services and traffic mitigation.
The proposal calls for demolishing the office buildings at 510 and 920 De Guigne Drive and building a mix of townhomes and smaller multi-family buildings in their place, according to The Mercury News. The application, led by an affiliate of Tidewater Capital, lays out the 329 for-sale units and 41 accessory units and includes new streetscape features and open space meant to stitch the project into the surrounding neighborhood rather than wall it off…