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ZCA26-001; Consideration of a Resolution Recommending the City Council Amend the Zoning Code to Modify Parking Regulations and Establish Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Regulations.
Staffreport
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
In San Leandro's adopted 2023-2031 Housing Element, the City committed to addressing parking-related constraints to housing production by hiring a transportation consultant to analyze the Zoning Code and recommend modifications to parking regulations. The City subsequently contracted with two transportation consulting firms, W-Trans and Nelson Nygaard, to prepare a Parking and Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Study (Attachment 3) in response to that commitment. Proposed Zoning Code Amendments have been prepared based on the recommendations in the Parking and TDM Study that would refine the City's parking regulations and establish TDM requirements.
Staff recommends that the Planning Commission adopt a Resolution recommending the City Council 1) repeal and replace Zoning Code Chapter 4.08 Off-Street Parking and Loading Regulations (Attachment 1, Exhibit A); and 2) adopt Zoning Code Chapter 4.10 Transportation Demand Management (Attachment 1, Exhibit B).
BACKGROUND
In the adopted 2023-2031 Housing Element, the City identified the current vehicle parking ratios in the Zoning Code as a "constraint to housing production in San Leandro" (Housing Element, page 3-25). The Housing Element noted that several housing development projects had requested and received parking exceptions or planned developments to build less parking, in order to make housing projects financially feasible. These processes "add time and uncertainty, which can impede housing development".
In Housing Element Program 14, Action 14.1, the City committed to removing these constraints to make housing production more financially feasible by retaining the services of a third-party consultant to identify the appropriate Zoning Code modifications. Action 14.1 a...
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