Title
First Reading of an Ordinance Amending the Zoning Code to Modify Off-Street Parking Regulations and Establish Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Regulations Related Primarily to New Development
Staffreport
COUNCIL PRIORITY
* Housing and Homelessness
* Economic Development
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
In San Leandro's adopted 2023-2031 Housing Element, Program 14, Action 14.1, the City committed to addressing parking-related constraints to housing production, specifically by hiring transportation consultants to analyze and make recommendations for parking reform. In response, the City contracted with two transportation consulting firms, W-Trans and Nelson Nygaard, to prepare a Parking and Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Study (Attachment C). The Study makes recommendations on all of the City's minimum parking requirements, both residential and non-residential, so that the resulting amendments would be comprehensive and internally consistent. Proposed Zoning Code Amendments have been prepared based on the recommendations in the Parking and TDM Study.
Staff recommend the City Council adopt an Ordinance amending the Zoning Code to 1) repeal and replace Zoning Code Chapter 4.08 (Off-Street Parking and Loading Regulations) (Attachment A, Exhibit A); and 2) adopt Zoning Code Chapter 4.10 (Transportation Demand Management) (Attachment A, Exhibit B).
BACKGROUND
In the adopted 2023-2031 Housing Element (HE), the City identified current parking minimums as a "constraint to housing production" (Housing Element, page 3-25), citing that several housing developments utilized parking exceptions or planned development entitlements to incur fewer parking-related construction costs and thereby make their projects financially feasible.
The Housing Element concluded that parking minimums "add time and uncertainty, which can impede housing development" and committed the City, through HE Action 14.1, to analyzing and removing these constraints to make housing...
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