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<br />Joint BZAlPC Worksession Minutes <br />Agenda No. 07-15 <br /> <br />August 9, 2007 <br />Page 50f9 <br /> <br />Residential, Mixed Use DA Districts not adjacent 1.5 spaces per unit; (0.25 to 0.50 <br />and Multi-Family to BART spaces/unit may be unbundled <br /> flex parking) <br />Commercial Retail and Office Uses in Office: 2.0 spaces/1 ,000 sq. ft. <br /> DA Districts Retail: 2.0 spaces/l ,000 sq. ft. <br /> Retail <5,000 sq. ft.: Exempt <br /> <br />Planning Secretary Livermore also explained the changes proposed for Article 25. <br />Because situations may occur with new developments that do not trigger the need for a <br />Planned Development (which would go to the Planning Commission and the City <br />Council), BZA review, use permit, parking exceptions, and so forth. The way the code is <br />written now, those uses would go straight to the Site Plan Approval section for <br />appropriate handling (by the Zoning Enforcement Official or the Site Development Sub- <br />Commission). Accordingly, there is a proposed addition to the language in Section <br />5-2506, Review and Approval Authority (in bold italics) <br /> <br />Site Plan Review for Projects that Do Not Require Discretionary Zoning Permits: <br />the Zoning Enforcement Official shall be the decision maker, unless the Zoning <br />Enforcement Official defers action to the Site Development Sub-Commission. <br />The Zoning Enforcement Official or Site Development Sub-Commission shall <br />approve, conditionally approve, or deny the Site Plan. Action on the Site Plan <br />may occur prior to or concurrently with a request for building permit approval. <br />The Zoning Enforcement Official may, at his or her sole discretion, refer any <br />development proposal to the Board of Zoning Adjustments for action. <br /> <br />Planning Secretary Livermore also added some clarification around DA-4, the TOD <br />Residential Mixed-Use section includes some IP districts. Accordingly, the proposed <br />Zoning Code changes include language about industrial uses in Section 2-642, under <br />conditionally permitted uses. <br />10. Industrial Uses. (Pre-existing industrial uses shall not be considered non- <br />conforming and may continue. Expansion up to 25 percent may be <br />considered with a Conditional Use Permit.) <br />She suggested that Board members and Commissioners might want to go over the <br />proposed changes one by one, or they could take it home and get back to her by next <br />Thursday with questions, concerns, suggestions to be addressed in the staff report for the <br />next Planning Commission meeting. <br /> <br />Planning Commission Chair Reed requested a brief overview of the background and <br />reason for all these changes. <br /> <br />Planning Secretary Livermore reviewed the development of the TOD Strategy work, <br />the involvement of the a 27 -member Citizens Advisory Committee over a period of 15 <br />months, community meetings, market studies, financial feasibility, use of expert <br />consultants, input from developers. All of this went into a land use plan that now needs to <br />be translated into existing regulations. This is "where the rubber meets the road." In some <br />cases, a current land use may not be the highest and best use of a property; an example <br />would be Wendy's and a fuel station - two very auto-oriented uses in the midst of the <br />transit-rich location next to BART. Those uses will remain as long as the property owners <br />