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Staff Report for the Ordinance Amending Sections 4-1904, 4-1908 and 4-1910 in Article 19 of the City of San Leandro Zoning Code Related to Landscaping Requirements
Staffreport
RECOMMENDATIONS
Planning Division staff, in collaboration with the Public Works Department, recommend that the City Council take public testimony on the proposed amendments, consider the Planning Commission’s comments and recommendations on the proposed amendments, and adopt the proposed Zoning Code Amendments.
BACKGROUND
In 2006, the State legislature passed AB 1881, known as the Water Conservation in Landscaping Act, which mandated that the State Department of Water Resources update the model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (WELO) and required that all local jurisdictions within California adopt WELO by 2009. Additionally, the City Council adopted Resolution 2006-013 in February 2006 that encourages the use of StopWaste.Org’s Bay Friendly Landscaping protocols and establishes these as City-approved reference documents.
In January 2010, the City of San Leandro amended the landscape regulations in Zoning Code Article 19 to conform to the State’s model WELO and included a series of Bay Friendly Landscape protocols as both recommended and required practices. At that time, the threshold of applicable projects was established in conformance with the State model WELO policies.
In October 2011, StopWaste.Org issued a mandate to its member jurisdictions to implement Bay Friendly Basics as a requirement for private landscape projects in order to continue to receive Waste Import Mitigation Funding. The City of San Leandro received approximately $105,000 in Fiscal Year 11/12 for its recycling programs from this funding source via StopWaste.Org.
Analysis
Zoning Code Article 19, Landscape Requirements, applies to all new or rehabilitated commercial, industrial and developer-installed residential landscape projects over 2,500 square feet and other (non-developer-installed) residenti...
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