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Zoning Code Amendments -2- March 21, 2011 DA Uses, Definitions and Parking; SB2 Downtown Area (DA) Updates Since the adoption of the Downtown Transit Oriented Development Strategy and the related Downtown Area (DA) Zoning Districts in 2007, a number of minor adjustments to the Zoning requirements have accumulated that need to be addressed as a "clean up" effort. Certain uses that were not allowed under the new DA zoning, for example "Animal Grooming" and "Animal Sales ", or others that were permitted only with a Conditional Use Permit (CUP), such as "Cafes ", have since become considered by staff to be appropriate as outright permitted uses for the downtown area. In other cases. "Office. Business and Professional" were either too restrictive in the use or locational requirements, so that staff recommends these should be minimized or removed. For example, dental laboratories that are now more akin to medical office uses could not locate in many districts, especially the downtown, without a CUP. Filially, certain parking requirements for the DA are now to be phased out, per the original Zoning Code amendments in 2007 in Article 17, and the Planned Development Overlay status for several DA -zoned properties required clarification in Article 10. DISCUSSION • SB2 Fair Share Zoning Law SB2 establishes that emergency shelters can only be subject to those development and management standards that apply to other developments in the same zone, except that the local government may apply written, objective standards. San Leandro Housing and Planning staff negotiated with the State of California Office of Housing and Community Development to define the Homeless Shelters with the following standards: Homeless Shelters. Facility limited to 25 beds and subject to the following requirements: the facility has an adopted management plan that includes hours and stafng; the facility provides sufficient waiting room, parking and loading facilities,: and that 24 -hour male and female toilets, showers and private lockers are provided Staff proposes to amend Article 7 Industrial Districts, Section 2 -704 (IL Districts Use Regulations) to allow homeless shelters in the IL Industrial Light Zoning District and to add the above definition for Homeless Shelters in Article 3, Section 1 -304, Definitions. Downtown Area (DA) Updates In order to accommodate the proposed changes discussed above, a series of additions and strike outs are proposed to several Zoning Code sections. The actual proposed strike -out and added text are found in the attachments to the proposed ordinance. Staff notes that all other sections of the Code not amended or altered shall remain the same, and in full force and effect. The proposed ordinance will amend the following Articles of the Zoning Code per the following summaries: