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Staff Report for a City of San Leandro City Council Ordinance to Amend the Professional Office (P) Zoning District and Commercial and Professional Development Regulations of the City of San Leandro Zoning Code
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Following direction from the City Council in February 2018, staff began work on clarifying and consolidating development regulations for the City's Commercial and Professional Zoning districts, found in Article 6, Division 2 of the San Leandro Zoning Code. The recommended changes include establishing a consistent 30 foot height limit for all projects in the Professional Office (P) zoning district, revising floor area ratios and residential density to be consistent with the General Plan, and updating the Site Plan Review amenities criteria for mixed-use and multi-family residential development. The remaining proposed changes are primarily organizational and for clarification/consistency and generally do not modify existing development standards.
BACKGROUND
The Zoning Code is the primary implementation tool of the General Plan, which serves as the comprehensive policy guide for the City, as well as for specific plans such as the Downtown Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Strategy and the Bay Fair TOD Specific Plan. The City regularly updates individual sections of the Zoning Code in response to specific local issues, legislative mandates, or to bring the Zoning Code into conformance with General Plan or specific plan updates.
The last major update to the Zoning Code was approved in September 2016 in conjunction with the 2035 General Plan update. The changes were necessary to bring the Zoning Code into conformance with both the Downtown Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Strategy and the 2035 General Plan Update. During the 2016 Zoning Code amendment process, staff initially recommended eliminating the Professional Office (P) zoning district because of the removal of the General Plan's "Office" land use des...
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