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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: April 16, 2012 <br />Staff Report <br />File Number: 12 -124 Agenda Section: PUBLIC HEARINGS — CITY <br />COUNCIL <br />Agenda Number: 3.B. <br />TO: City Council <br />FROM: Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY: Luke Sims <br />Community Development Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW: Not Applicable <br />TITLE: Staff Report for the Ordinance Amending Sections 4 -1904, 4 -1908 and <br />4 -1910 in Article 19 of the City of San Leandro Zoning Code Related to <br />Landscaping Requirements <br />RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Planning Division staff, in collaboration with the Public Works Department, recommend that <br />the City Council take public testimony on the proposed amendments, consider the Planning <br />Commission's comments and recommendations on the proposed amendments, and adopt the <br />proposed Zoning Code Amendments. <br />le[•]:cr] CzollJ 0I �7 <br />In 2006, the State legislature passed AB 1881, known as the Water Conservation in <br />Landscaping Act, which mandated that the State Department of Water Resources update the <br />model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (WELD) and required that all local jurisdictions <br />within California adopt WELO by 2009. Additionally, the City Council adopted Resolution <br />2006 -013 in February 2006 that encourages the use of StopWaste.Org's Bay Friendly <br />Landscaping protocols and establishes these as City- approved reference documents. <br />In January 2010, the City of San Leandro amended the landscape regulations in Zoning Code <br />Article 19 to conform to the State's model WELO and included a series of Bay Friendly <br />Landscape protocols as both recommended and required practices. At that time, the threshold <br />of applicable projects was established in conformance with the State model WELO policies. <br />In October 2011, StopWaste.Org issued a mandate to its member jurisdictions to implement <br />Bay Friendly Basics as a requirement for private landscape projects in order to continue to <br />receive Waste Import Mitigation Funding. The City of San Leandro received approximately <br />$105,000 in Fiscal Year 11/12 for its recycling programs from this funding source via <br />City of San Leandro Page 1 Printed on 411012012 <br />