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IN THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO RESOLUTION NO. 2011-061 A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE SAN LEANDRO GENERAL PLAN WHEREAS, Section 65300, et seq. of the State Planning and Zoning Law (Division 1 of Title 7 of the California Government Code) requires every city to adopt a comprehensive, long- term general plan for the physical development of the city. WHEREAS, Section 65300.5 of the State of California Government Code requires general plans to be internally consistent, and the State General Plan Guidelines (2003) further indicate that area plans and general plans must be consistent with one another. WHEREAS, the City of San Leandro adopted a General Plan on May 6, 2002, guiding development through the year 2015. WHEREAS, the City adopted a Downtown Transit - Oriented Development (TOD) Strategy and certified an EIR for this Strategy on September 4, 2007, which included new land use designations for areas around the Downtown BART Station. WHEREAS, the City adopted a new General Plan Housing Element on April 5, 2010. WHEREAS, certain provisions of the TOD Strategy and Housing Element are not entirely consistent with the narrative and Map designations of the 2002 General Plan. WHEREAS, the City completed a line by line edit of its General Plan in November 2010 in order to ensure internal consistency between the General Plan, the TOD Strategy, and the Housing Element, resulting in an Addendum to the General Plan and new "Chapter 9" Housing Element Summary. WHEREAS, the City completed an analysis of the General Plan Map in November 2010 indicating the changes necessary to make the TOD Strategy Map (and related zoning) and the General Plan Map fully consistent. WHEREAS, the City has created a new General Plan Map category called Transit - Oriented Mixed Use and has proposed mapping that category on 160 acres within the TOD Strategy boundary, consistent with the already- approved land use plan for the TOD Area. WHEREAS, the City's Housing Element has been deemed compliant with State law, provided that it includes provisions for reasonable accommodation, which may be incorporated through the same amendment and addendum process described above. WHEREAS, the City has conducted environmental review of the proposed General Plan Amendment and determined that the potential for impacts has been adequately covered by prior CEQA documents for the TOD Strategy and the Housing Element.