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APPROVED AND CITY OF SAN LEANDRO/ FORWARDED TO THE CITY COUNCIL STAFF REPORT tep en L. Hollister DATE: March 21, 2011 City Manager TO: Stephen L. Hollister, City Manager FROM: Luke Sims, Community Developme t Directolfi BY: Sally Barros, Senior Planner --rr SUBJECT PROJECT /PROJECT DESCRIPTION: MATTER OF CONSIDERATION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO ZONING CODE RELATED TO DOWNTOWN AREA (DA) USES, PARKING AND DEFINITIONS AND TO ARTICLES 3 AND 7 RELATED TO CONFORMANCE TO THE SB2 FAIR SHARE ZONING LAW SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION The Community Development Department, Planning Division, is undertaking the first of several "clean up" updates of the Zoning Code. The first of these updates is intended to keep current with the State - mandated SB2 Fair Share Zoning Law, related to homeless shelters, and to address needed adjustments to the 2007 adoption of the Downtown Area (DA) use and parking regulations. Staff recommends that the City Council hold a public hearing to adopt the Negative Declaration/Initial Study and the proposed Zoning Code amendments related to the Downtown uses, parking and definitions and to conformance with SB2 Fair Share Zoning. BACKGROUND SB2 Fair Share Zoning Law SB2 requires that every city and county assess how many homeless persons are in their community and to identify zones, in the Housing Element of their General Plan and in their Zoning Codes, where emergency homeless shelters are allowed to locate without a conditional use permit or other discretionary permit. Cities are required to comply with the zoning requirement at their next regular update cycle. Cities that cannot comply at the next update cycle must do so no later than a year after adoption of their Housing Element. The City of San Leandro's Housing Element adoption occurred in July 2010.