On April 14, 2020, the City Council approved the Hill Town project, including a Final Planned Development Plan #19-01, Vesting Tentative Map #9533, Conditional use Permit #19-91, and Design Review Permit #19-02, subject to certain conditions, for a mixed-use commercial and residential development consisting of up to 598 attached multi-family residential units and 4,200 square feet of neighborhood commercial uses, to be developed in four construction phases, on a 44.2-acre site adjacent to and west of Interstate 80, adjacent to and east of San Pablo Avenue, and adjacent to and north of John Muir Parkway. 

Project Plans

• Hilltown - Architecture - Overview (22 MB PDF)
• Hilltown - Architecture I (22 MB PDF)
• Hilltown - Architecture II (23 MB PDF)
• Hilltown - Architecture III (3.7 MB PDF)
• Hilltown - Architecture IV (6 MB PDF)
• Hilltown - Landscape (15 MB PDF)
• Hilltown - Civil (29 MB PDF)
• Hilltown - Civil - Supplemental I (16 MB PDF)
• Hilltown - Civil - Supplemental II (19 MB PDF)

CEQA Documents

• Hilltown CEQA Addendum to the Environmental Impact Report for the 2009 Updated Redevelopment Plan
  • Hilltown Traffic Impact Analysis (with Appendices)

Site History & Background

The Hill Town site has dramatic differences in elevation, rising from an elevation of approximately 50 feet near John Muir Parkway to elevations in excess of 200 feet at the top. The site is highly visible from several vantage points in Hercules, and presents a signature view of Hercules to thousands of cars traveling daily on eastbound Interstate 80.

The site was developed by PG&E in the late 1970s as an oil storage, heating, and pumping station in connection with a PG&E pipeline from Richmond to eastern Contra Costa County. PG&E used these facilities to supply heavy fuel oil to power generating facilities in Pittsburg. A change in environmental regulations that imposed more stringent limitations on the sulfur content in heavy fuel oil rendered the facility essentially obsolete by the early 1980s, and PG&E maintained the facility in standby status until SCVHG purchased the property from PG&E in 2005 in a transaction that involved Shell Oil Company taking possession of the Richmond-to-Pittsburg pipeline and SCVHG taking the Hercules tank farm site.

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