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Draft Excerpt of February 22, 2007 Planning Commission Meeting Page 3 of6 . The Park Street "Island," located between San Leandro Boulevard and Park Street, next to Siempre Verde Park and near a new industrial building. . An area north of Marina and west of San Leandro Boulevard . The area around where Washington A venue and San Leandro Boulevard intersect . Down W ashington Avenue, in an area that begins near the Ghirardelli factory and proceeds south past the Floresta-Halcyon comer. . In the area around Hesperian Boulevard and Springlake Drive . A commercial area in the Manor . An area south of Lewelling Boulevard . The Windsor Square Shopping Center The result of that effort is a proposal that includes text amendments to the Zoning Code and corresponding changes to the Zoning Map. Secretary Pollart explained that most of the changes are designed to establish the term "Assembly Use," essentially consolidating "Clubs and Lodges" and "Religious Assembly" into a single definition, and reflect that term wherever "Clubs and Lodges" and "Religious Assembly" appear currently. This would amend Article 3 (Definitions), Article 5 (Residential) and Article 17 (Off-Street Parking). Additionally, a new section in Article 13 (Special Review Overlay District) would create an overlay district for Assembly Use, outline the purpose of this overlay, and provide additional performance standards to be considered under future conditional use applications for an assembly use. Specifically, a Use Permit would be required for new assembly use or substantial expansion or alteration of an existing use. Review criteria and conditions of approval would be made in accord with Sections 5-2212 and 5-2214. Secretary Pollart emphasized that the proposed overlay would not change underlying zoning of any of the properties; it would merely add Assembly Use as conditionally permitted. It would thus affect neither existing uses nor existing tenants. However, it would affect the ability to locate adult-oriented businesses in the new overlay district in industrial zones, because no adult-oriented businesses may be established on properties with overlays. The Assembly Use Overlay proposal reflects input from several bodies, including: . The City Council Business & Housing Development Subcommittee . Joint BZA/PC Work Session . Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee . West San LeandrolMacArthur Boulevard Redevelopment Area Advisory Committee saw no harm in the approach to the overlay district for assembly uses, but does not support assembly use as a conditionally permitted use in any area zoned industrial. . Joint Redevelopment Area Advisory Committee concurred with the idea of creating an overlay district for assembly uses and made two additional recommendations. If a nonprofit assembly group relocates from a property, they want to see that property return to a taxable use once the property is vacated. Also, this group wanted the properties along Washington Avenue removed from the proposed overlay. Courtesy notices went out for the December BZA meeting as well as tonight's Planning Commission meeting. Recipients included all 197 potentially affected property owners. Secretary Pollart reported that a couple of callers inquired about the proposal, but no one expressed concerns about the overlay. As required by law (CEQA), staff prepared an Initial Study/Negative Declaration; no comments were received within the mandated 20-day public review period