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2450 Washington Avenue Apartments 16 October 2011 POTENTIALLY POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT LESS THAN NO ISSUES SIGNIFICANT UNLESS SIGNIFICANT IMPACT SOURCES ISSUES MITIGATION IMPACT INCORPORATED - - a. Physically divide an established community? X 1, 2, 3 b. Conflict with any applicable land use plan, policy, or X 2, 3, 4 regulation of an agency with jurisdiction over the project (including, but not limited to the general plan, specific plan, local coastal program, or zoning ordinance) adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating an environmental effect? C. Conflict with any applicable habitat conservation plan X 2, 3, 4 or natural community conservation plan? EXPLANATION: a) The 2.85 -acre project site is located near the intersection of San Leandro Boulevard and Washington Avenue in San -----Leandroo and - is -identified - as - 2450 - Washington Avenue - (APN #07713- 1410 = 025 =00 and - 077D= 0556=104). The has been previously graded and disturbed and is presently developed with a 43,200 square -foot two -story commercial office building and associated asphalt parking lot and landscaped medians. Surrounding land uses include multi- family residential development to the north, a mobile home park (Traitor Haven) to the east and south and commercial and industrial uses to the west across Washington Avenue. The proposed 66 -unit residential development would complement rather than divide the established community by replacing the existing commercial office land use located in a primarily residential area with residential uses. Therefore, the proposed project would not disrupt or divide the physical arrangement of the community established by existing uses. b) The .City of San Leandro General Plan contains various policies pertaining to land use, housing, circulation and transportation, open space, recreation and noise, which could be applicable to the proposed project. The proposed project involves the creation of a new general plan land use designation and zoning district, in order to allow for the proposed residential development to be built on a parcel that is currently zoned Professional Office "P (AU)" with a General Plan designation Office "OF ". By changing the underlying zoning and general plan designation to Residential Multi - Family (RM -1800) and High Density Residential (HDR), the project will comply with applicable general plan policies and zoning requirements. As a result, the proposed project will not conflict with an applicable land use plan, policy or regulation and will therefore not have a potentially significant effect. C) There are no habitat conservation plans or natural community conservation plans in effect within the project area. The project site has been previously graded and disturbed, contains a commercial office development and a paved parking area and is surrounded on three sides by existing residential development (See Figure 3). Accordingly, the proposed project would not conflict with any habitat conservation or natural community conservation plans and will therefore have no impact. Therefore, no mitigation is required. i a. Result in the loss of availability of a known mineral , 9 resource that would be of value to the region and the 7xxl,4, residents of the state? b. Result in the loss of availability of a locally, important 9 min eral resource recovery site delineated on a local g eneral plan, specific plan or other land use Ian? EXPLANATION: a, b) The State legislation protecting mineral resource zones is the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975. Part of the purpose of the act is to classify mineral resources in the State and to transmit the information to local governments which regulate land use in each region of the State. Local governments are responsible for designating lands that contain regionally- significant mineral resources in local general plans to assure resource conservation in areas of intensive competing land uses. The law has resulted in the preparation of Mineral Land Classification Maps delineating Mineral Resource Zones (MRZ ) 1 through 4 for aggregate resources (sand, gravel and stone), 2450 Washington Avenue Apartments 16 October 2011