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Attachment B: Excerpt of the Minutes of the Board of Zoning Adjustments meeting of January 5, 2012 Item 8A: Miscellaneous A. Consideration of Amendments to the City of San Leandro Zoning Code related to Large Family Day Care, Accessory Structures, Fences in the Residential Single - Family View Preservation Overlay District, and Paving in Residential Front Yards in Residential Districts. ( Barros) Senior Planner Barros explained that the subject items have been on the list of Zoning Code cleanup items for some time, and she's tried to group together items that have something in common — in this case, residential districts. Proposed amendments involve four items: 1) Large Family Daycare State regulations allow residentially based providers who care for up to six children to be permitted by right without further regulation by local jurisdictions. With facilities that serve from seven to 14 children, cities can exercise discretionary approvals and impose regulations and assess impacts of the operation on the neighborhood. Senior Planner Barros said situations have arisen in which a daycare operator's home didn't have sufficient frontage to provide the 32 -foot minimum requirement (basically to accommodate two vehicles) for on- street parking. The proposal is to use an administrative review by the Zoning Enforcement Official for providers who don't meet the criteria rather than imposing the burdensome process of applying for a CUP. As with CUPs, Senior Planner Barros explained, the Administrative Exception process enables the City to impose conditions of approval. 2) Accessory Structures Senior Planner Barros said she's distilled the language related to the maximum height and minimum setbacks for accessory structures (in RS, RD and RM Districts) into an easier -to- follow table that also clarifies language that seemed inconsistent and that strikes out language that was contradictory between the height and location parameters for setbacks. Maximum Height Minimum Setback Up to 8 feet zero 8+ feet to 12 feet 3 feet 12+ feet to 15 feet 5 feet Chair Daly asked whether his understanding is correct that accessory structures built on the property line cannot exceed 120 square feet. Senior Planner Barros explained that current code allows structures of less than 120 square feet in area and less than eight feet in height to be closer to the property line than 5 feet. However, in the rear 25 feet of a lot, an accessory structure exceeding 120 square feet (10x20 feet) can be up to three feet from the property line.