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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />MEMORANDUM <br />Date: September 10, 2009 <br />To: City Council Business and Housing Development Committee <br />from: Luke Sims, Community Development Director <br />Via: Kathleen Livermore, Planning Manager <br />By: Phil Millenbah, Senior Planner <br />Subject: Discussion Regarding Zoning Code Amendments <br />Staff is in the process of drafting changes to the City's zoning code and is expecting to <br />bring forward the changes to the Planning Commission and City this Fall. The <br />amendments to the zoning code include: <br />Retail Box. Staff is preparing zoning code text changes and General Plan Amendments <br />that would ban on stores exceeding 100,000 sq ft and devoting more than 5% of floor <br />space to the sale of non-taxable goods. The supporting General Plan Amendments must <br />address the following issues: a. Commercial development must predominately serve the <br />local community, not wider region; b. all commercial development must be compatible <br />and consistent in size with the surrounding built environment, particularly residential <br />uses, and/or; c. high priority is to be given to preservation and expansion of existing <br />businesses and prevention of new commercial development on the periphery of the <br />community. <br />Urban Agriculture. Urban Agriculture amendments will included additions to zoning <br />code to allow beekeeping and chickens. The changes would allow one hive as long as <br />certain conditions are met such as providing water and having sufficient setbacks, and the <br />chicken ordinance will allow up to 6 chickens per household (no roosters). <br />Water Efficient Landscaping. In 2006, the state legislature passed AB 1881, known as <br />the Water Conservation in Landscaping Act, which required the State Department of <br />Water Resources to update the State Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance by <br />2009. Cities must adopt ordinances that are "at least as effective" as the model ordinance <br />by January 1, 2010. <br />The City of San Leandro Zoning Code already establishes landscaping requirements in <br />Article 19, and encourages the reduction of water use. The State Model differs from these <br />