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II. PERMITTED USES A. This use permit approval is for the conversion of the Woodside Apartments, a 96- unit apartment complex, to condominium ownership. As part of the condominium conversion approval, the property owner shall increase the current off-street parking supply and increase the amount of laundry facilities. The total number of parking spaces shall be a minimum of 180 spaces on the property. The guest parking spaces shall be marked or signed for guests use. The total number of laundry facilities shall be a minimum of 20 washers and 20 dryers. This is also the approval of a modification to the Planned Development (PD-85-2) to reduce the amount of landscaped setback along the Haas Avenue frontage and to improve the frontage of the property with new architectural and decorative structures combined with a new landscape (planting) composition. This is also approval of Vesting Tentative Map Tract No. 7767 to create a subdivision for condominium ownership of 235 Haas Avenue, also known as Alameda County Assessor's Parcel Number 76-437-7-1. B. This use permit approval for the conversion of the Woodside Apartments also provides that certain trees specified by the arborist in the tree report shall be removed, specifically three redwood trees along the front of Building A. C. The applicant shall comply with Zoning Code Article 24 Residential Condominium Conversions including but not limited to providing benefits (concessions) to the tenants such as: 1. No rent increases. The tenant's rents will not be increased within two months prior to the project application, nor would the rent be increased for two years from the time of the filing of the project application or until relocation takes place. 2. Lifetime leases. The applicant has offered lifetime leases to tenants who are 62 years of age or older and those who are handicapped for the units they occupy on the date of the notification of intent to convert. This offer shall be considered a condition of approval. 3. Moving Allowance. The applicant shall provide a moving allowance equal to three times the monthly rent only to tenants that were living at Woodside Apartments on March 2, 2006 and received the initial "Notice of Intent to Convert," and are still living at Woodside at the time they receive a notice to vacate. Tenants moving on to the property subsequent to the initial notice are not eligible to the specified moving allowance. 4. Discounts on the price of the units. The applicant has offered a discount for up to $4,000 of the market rate units if the tenant decides to purchase his or her respective unit. Recommended Conditions of Approval (Revised) December 13, 2007 PLN2006-00059 Page 2 of 14