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Excerptfrom 10-19-06 Joint BZAIPC Meeting Page 1 of4 I Assembly Uses Planning Manager Pollart explained the situation regarding the potential of Zoning Code amendments that would permit Assembly uses in certain industrial districts. For clarification, she pointed out that while Religious Assembly and Clubs and Lodges have separate definitions in the Zoning Code, they must be treated equally as Assembly uses under the provisions of RUILP A, the law requiring equal treatment for all manner of assembly uses. Currently, she explained, Religious Assembly is permitted conditionally in any R District. By way of background, Ms. Pollart said that earlier this year, Faith Fellowship requested a modification of the Zoning Code to also conditionally permit assembly uses in the IL District. Faith Fellowship has outgrown its current facility in Washington Manor and is looking at the former MDL building on Catalina. The Faith Fellowship application prompted the Planning Department to look at the General Plan, which suggests that the areas most suitable for conversion from industrial to non-industrial are a) those located adjacent to existing housing, or b) in areas which lack amenities to meet needs of modem industry - San Leandro Boulevard north of Davis Street, Alvarado Street, and Marina Boulevard west of the Auto Row area. She indicated that the General Plan also discusses adaptive reuse (i.e., keeping the industrial base up-to-date), tax-base enhancement, the industrial sanctuary, and also of the separation of industrial uses from sensitive uses, such as schools, churches and the like. Based on General Plan considerations, the Planning Department developed several criteria to evaluate potential areas for additional assembly uses. . Not located along major commercial corridor, to preserve the commercial sections of East 14th Street, for example, and the Auto Row area along Marina Boulevard; . Not in a designated IG or IP District, except possibly on the periphery, to preserve the industrial core; . Size of parcels (Planning looked at sites or areas encompassing at least two acres); . Abuts or within a quarter-mile of an arterial (direct access to and from freeways and other arterials would minimize traffic wending its way through neighborhoods to reach an assembly site); . Vacant/underutilized property; some of the so-called "underutilized" properties, Ms. PoIlart explained, are currently occupied but there might be a higher, better use for them some years down the road. With that as the framework, Staff identified 13 potential areas, indicating which of the five criteria each area meets (map included). The areas: 1 East part of town, off of Grand Avenue near Interstate 580 2 Park Street Island near Siempre Verde Park and San Leandro Boulevard; much of the adjacent property is currently zoned IL North of Marina Boulevard in the area of Williams Street, Alvarado Street and Martinez Street Along the Washington Avenue corridor, beginning at about San Leandro 4-5-6 Boulevard and going southeast Along Washington Avenue, south of Halcyon DrivelFloresta Boulevard Along Hesperian west of Bayfair Center Off Lewelling Boulevard near Interstate 880 The Wicks BoulevardlMerced Street area The Marina Faire Shopping Center area along Doolittle Drive The Windsor Square Shopping Center 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 A TT ACHMENT I