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File Number: 12 -253 <br />General Plan Policies that encourage this type of development are: <br />C: 0Z1 1191T 1 0111 191Tdl01 »e10I <br />In accordance with the adopted Downtown Plan and Urban Design Guidelines and the <br />Downtown San Leandro Transit Oriented Development Strategy, ensure that new <br />Downtown Development is attractive and creates an image conducive to revitalization. <br />6.02 RETAIL - SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS <br />Develop and implement business development strategies that improve the mix of retail <br />and service businesses Downtown, with an emphasis on higher -end retail shops, <br />sit -down restaurants, and entertainment uses. <br />6.05 PEDESTRIAN - FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT <br />Provide public and private improvements that create a safe, friendly, and pleasurable <br />environment for pedestrians in Downtown. <br />6.06 URBAN DESIGN <br />Promote quality Downtown architecture that is well articulated, enhances the <br />pedestrian setting, preserves the City's architectural heritage, and fits in with the scale <br />and texture of existing historic structures. Discourage "franchise architecture" that will <br />distract from creating a unique and distinctive Downtown setting. <br />8.05 NEIGHBORHOOD SHOPPING CENTERS <br />Promote reinvestment in the City's viable neighborhood shopping centers, with an <br />emphasis on new retail uses that serve the adjacent neighborhoods and contribute to <br />the overall vitality of the centers. <br />111MIK9AEF_ F-1 MEN 9:111&11:7 Ell Amr , 001l0exel:FiMIC7 *1 <br />Pursue Zoning Code changes along East 14th Street which enable the desired <br />development pattern to be gradually achieved. Zoning for the East 14th Street corridor <br />should provide incentives for mixed use development, such as density bonuses and <br />allowances for shared parking. <br />Environmental Review <br />This project is Categorically Exempt from CEQA pursuant to the Section 21083 and 21084 of <br />the Public Resources Code and Section 15332 of CEQA Guidelines: <br />15332. In -Fill Development Projects. Class 32 consists of projects characterized as in -fill <br />development meeting the conditions described in this section: (a) the project is consistent with <br />the applicable general plan designation and all applicable general plan policies as well as with <br />applicable zoning designation and regulations, (b) the proposed development occurs within <br />City of San Leandro Page 4 Printed on 511512012 <br />