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NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Leandro does ORDAIN as follows: Section I. Findings. The City Council of the City of San Leandro does hereby find as follows: (A) The permitted and conditionally permitted uses listed in the Zoning Code for the CD Zoning District have not been updated to reflect more-recent planning documents, including the City's General Plan, the Downtown Plan and Urban Design Guidelines, and the stated goals and policies for the Plaza Redevelopment Area. The current ability of a large-scale retail development and similar uses in downtown San Leandro threatens to impede or prevent the accomplishment of fundamental goals and policies related to establishing and maintaining a vital core of economic and community activity in downtown San Leandro, which goals and policies are integral to achieving the purposes of the General Plan and applicable redevelopment plans. (B) There is a limited supply of convenient parking in the downtown shopping district, and the impact of large retail establishments, and similar uses could impede the City's efforts to ensure necessary and adequate parking to support the City's goals relating to revitalization of downtown San Leandro. In addition, many of the older properties are not up to current development standards with regard to landscaping and architecture. Without some City oversight/discretion for certain properties as they change over, such properties will continue to decline in their appearance and not contribute positively to the image for the downtown that has been set forth in the various planning documents. Section 2. Section 2-608 of Article 6 of the San Leandro Zoning Code is amended as set forth in Exhibit A, which is attached and incorporated by reference into this Ordinance. Section 3. Effective Date and Publication. This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after adoption and the title thereof shall be published once prior to adoption. Section 4. Repeal of Interim Urgency Ordinance. Upon the effective date of this Ordinance, the Interim Urgency Ordinance Prohibiting Consideration and Approval of Use Permits, Variances, Building Permits, Start of New Construction or Other Entitlements for all New Retail Sales uses in excess of 10,000 s.f. in size in the Commercial Downtown Zoning District (Ordinance No. 2005-016) is repealed and of no further effect. ORDINANCE NO. 2005-021 2