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ICON rs%. f9 '1 0 CITY OF SAN LEANDRO DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES R ^, P a Planning Division tommns INITIAL STUDY CHECKLIST FORM Project title: General Plan Consistency Amendments for the Downtown TOD Area and Housing Element Lead agency name, Phil Millenbah, Senior Planner address & phone City of San Leandro, 835 E. 14 Street, San Leandro, CA 94577 number: (510) 577 -3327 Project location: The proposal is an amendment to the San Leandro General Plan, which covers all area within the City limits of San Leandro as well as the unincorporated sphere of influence beyond the City limits. The focus of the amendment is the area around the Downtown San Leandro BART station and the adjacent Downtown Core. Project sponsor's City of San Leandro Name and address: 835 E. 14 Street, San Leandro, CA 94577 Contact: Phil Millenbah, Project Manager General Plan: Because the project is citywide, it encompasses all designations Zoning: Because the project is citywide, it encompasses all zoning districts Description of site and In 2007, the City of San Leandro adopted a Downtown Transit Oriented Development proposed project: (TOD) Strategy. Pursuant to CEQA, an EIR was prepared for the Strategy. The EIR was certified on September 4, 2007. The TOD Strategy established land uses and densities in the area around the BART Station that differed from those in the 2015 San Leandro General Plan, which was adopted in 2002. The Station Area was subsequently rezoned to reflect the TOD Land Use Plan. A series of text and map amendments are now proposed to ensure consistency between the General Plan and TOD Strategy. No changes to the General Plan Map are being proposed other than those that reflect the previously approved TOD Strategy. In April 2010, the San Leandro City Council adopted an updated Housing Element. Although the Housing Element is part of the General Plan, it stands on its own as a separate document. The 2015 General Plan exists in a three -ring binder (and is on the web as a series of hyperlinked PDF files). Chapter 9 of the General Plan is an Executive Summary of the Housing Element. This chapter was written in 2002, and reflects the 1999 -2006 Housing Element. Since there is now an updated Housing Element for 2007 -2014, the City is replacing the previous Chapter 9 Executive Summary with a new Summary. Both of the changes described above are administrative in nature and do not substantively change allowable land uses or development intensities in the city. TOD and Housing Element General Plan Consistency Amendments January 201 1 • Page I