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Downtown TOD Strategy 4 September 4, 2007 elements. One of the CAC meetings was a field trip to view other downtown and TOD developments in Hayward, Mountain View, Redwood City and San Mateo. A Developer Symposium was held to elicit feedback from residential and commercial developers on Strategy components. San Leandro staff and consultants also participated in the ULI/MTC sponsored TOD Marketplace to gain further insight from the development community. . Three very successful Community Meetings were held during the 17-month process. Meetings were held in June and September of 2006 and March of 2007 with an overall attendance of 240 area residents. Representatives from AC Transit, BART, MTC and ABAG attended the Community Meetings during the Open House portion of the meeting to provide information to the public. Spanish translation and child care were made available and publicized, thereby increasing attendance. . Some of the themes discussed at the Community meetings were: pedestrian improvements in the downtown to make it less auto-oriented; more family-oriented downtown, attracting and growing unique retail businesses downtown, improve safety and security, more public open space, opening the creek to community access in the downtown area, highlight historic resources, better physical publication of transit information, and other public transit improvements to improve community use of transit. There was overall support of transit-oriented development in the study area. . The CAC, at their 10th and final meeting in May 2007, provided final direction on a recommended Public Draft TOD Strategy. During May, June, July and August, San Leandro staff and CAC members gave presentations of the TOD Strategy to the following civic and homeowner associations: Planning Commission, Board of Zoning Adjustments, Senior Commission, Recreation and Parks Commission, City and San Leandro Unified School District Liaison Committee, Library Historical Commission, Broadmoor Neighborhood Association, Best Manor Homeowners Association, Halcyon- Foothill Homeowners Association, Downtown Business Association, Chamber of Commerce, Alameda County Climate Protection Project and an East Bay Community Fund sponsored mobile workshop. Planning Commission meeting of August 23,2007 . At their meeting on August 23,2007, the Planning Commission voted to recommend: 1) Certification of the FE1R (on a vote of7 ayes and 0 nays), 2) Adoption of the Downtown TOD Strategy (6-1), 3) Amendment of Zoning Code Text in Articles 6, 17 and 25 (7-0), 4) Creation of Special Review Overlay Criteria for Seven of Eight Special Policy Areas (7-0), 5) Amendment of the Zoning Map to Create the Downtown Areas DA-1 through DA-6 (7-0), and 6) Amendment of the Zoning Map to Create S-Overlay Districts on Certain Properties within the DA-I, DA-4, DA-5, DA-6, PS and OS Districts (6-1).