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Professional Office (P) Zoning District and Commercial and Professional Development Regulations Zoning Code Updates
Staffreport
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION
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 principal proposed changes include reducing the building height for multi-family and mixed-use residential projects in the Professional Office (P) zoning district from 50 to 30 feet, 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 generally do not modify existing development standards.
BACKGROUND
The Zoning Code is the primary tool of implementation for the General Plan, the comprehensive policy guide for the City, as well as for specific plans such as the Downtown Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Strategy and the Bayfair TOD Specific Plan. The City regularly updates individual sections of the Zoning Code, primarily in response to specific issues, State 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 designation, but public feedback in favor of retaining the P zone caused it to remain.
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