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A TT ACHMENT D City of San Leandro Community Development Department Planning Services Division Staff Report DATE: February 22,2007 TO: Planning Commission FROM: Debbie Pollart, Planning Manager -W SUBJECT: Matter of consideration of amendments to Article 3 - Definitions, Article 5 - Residential, Article 13 - Special Review Overlay District, and Article 17 - Off- street Parking & Loading Regulations of the Zoning Code; and consideration of amendments to the Zoning Map. Zoning Code amendments will include deleting definitions for 'Clubs & Lodges' and 'Religious Assembly' and replacing them with 'Assembly Uses', and making changes to Article 5 for consistency with the new definitions; creating a new Assembly Uses Overlay District; and modifying the parking standards for consistency with 'Assembly Uses'. The Zoning Map will be modified to include 197 properties with an Assembly Use (-AU) Overlay District, which would allow assembly uses to be conditionally permitted on these properties. SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION In response to an application by a church to re-Iocate to a non-residential district, staff analyzed the possibility of allowing assembly uses on appropriate non-residential sites, and expanding the land use options for assembly uses. Staff recommends that the Planning Commission review the proposed Zoning Code text and map amendments, the findings for the proposed rezone, and the associated environmental documentation, and forward a recommendation of approval for the amendments and adoption of the Negative Declaration, and findings for approval of the rezone, to the City Council. The City Council meeting is tentatively scheduled for March 19. BACKGROUND Faith Fellowship Church (FFC) recently purchased the property at 14600 Catalina (formerly occupied by MDL). On May 18, 2006, staff received an application from FFC requesting a Zoning Code amendment to conditionally permit Assembly uses in Industrial Limited (IL) zones, and to rezone their property from Industrial Professional (IP) to IL (thus setting up the possibility for review of a use permit for an assembly use at the 14600 Catalina site).