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Assembly Uses Overlay District Amendments to Articles 3, 5 and 17 and Zoning Map 4 March 19,2007 ~ Provide a suitable environment for various types of industrial uses, and protect them from the adverse impacts of inharmonious uses; Based on General Plan policies such as those noted above, area specific policies and plans, and Zoning Code purposes, the following criteria were developed for evaluating appropriate locations for assembly uses, with the express objective of expanding the opportunities for assembly uses beyond the residential zoning districts: . Site is not located along a major commercial corridor (identified as E. 14th Street and Marina Boulevard between San Leandro Boulevard and Merced Street); . Site is not located within the following General Plan Focus Areas: Downtown, Bayfair, Marina Blvd/SOMAR, or West San Leandro (each of these Focus Areas is governed by one or more of the following, which governs future development - special study/guidelines, special overlay district, or location within a redevelopment area); . Site is not located in a regional-serving retail area (identified as Greenhouse Marketplace, Westgate, Marina Square, and 'old' Target site); . Site is not located inside the lh-mile study area identified for the Downtown Transit- Oriented Development (TOD) Strategy; . Site abuts or is within * mile of an arterial street (as identified in the Circulation Element of the General Plan); . Site is not located in a Residential Zone (Assembly uses are already conditionally permitted in residential zones, so would not produce new areas for assembly uses to locate if considered); . Site is not considered public land, and is not zoned Public Service. (PS), Open Space (OS), or Commercial Recreation (eR); property is not owned by an Exempt Public Agency, or leased/owned by a public utility (these areas represent properties and uses that are unlikely to change); . Overlay Area must allow a contiguous area greater than or equal to two acres. (This figure was derived from research indicating that large assembly uses require a minimum 2-acre site to accommodate bigger building size and to allow for adequate on-site parking. Staff is not recommending that a minimum acreage be included as part of the Zoning Code text amendments, and suggests that future applications for amendments to the Assembly Use overlay that may be less than 2-acres in size be given flexibility in a manner that would conform to the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act [RLUIPA].) After inputting General Plan policy and Zoning Code criteria, several potential overlay areas, located throughout the City, were derived where staff recommends assembly uses could be conditionally permitted. This would be accomplished via a Zoning Code text amendment to