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File Number: 12 -256 retail shops, sit -down restaurants, and entertainment uses. Provide public and private improvements that create a safe, friendly, and pleasurable environment for pedestrians in Downtown. 6.06 URBAN DESIGN Promote quality Downtown architecture that is well articulated, enhances the pedestrian setting, preserves the City's architectural heritage, and fits in with the scale and texture of existing historic structures. Discourage "franchise architecture" that will distract from creating a unique and distinctive Downtown setting. 8.05 NEIGHBORHOOD SHOPPING CENTERS Promote reinvestment in the City's viable neighborhood shopping centers, with an emphasis on new retail uses that serve the adjacent neighborhoods and contribute to the overall vitality of the centers. 13111019A*MME19:1619 V MIAIM910110CeZel : /_10 Eel 4.1 Pursue Zoning Code changes along East 14th Street which enable the desired development pattern to be gradually achieved. Zoning for the East 14th Street corridor should provide incentives for mixed use development, such as density bonuses and allowances for shared parking. B. The proposed Zoning Code amendment is internally consistent with the City's Zoning Ordinance. The amendments meet the requirements and standards of the Zoning Ordinance and the procedural requirements of Article 27, "Amendments ". C. The proposed amendments are reasonably related to the public health, safety, and welfare in that the amendments uphold the General Plan goals and policies that emphasize maintaining and improving the attractiveness of the City's neighborhoods. SECTION 3 Adoption of Zoning Code Amendments Based on the entirety of the record, as described above, the underlying zone of the Project Site is hereby amended from DA -1(S) to PD as set forth in Exhibits A and B , attached hereto and incorporated into this Ordinance by this reference. SECTION 4 . Findings for and Approval of Planned Development Project. The City Council does hereby make the findings and determinations required by Section 3 -1014 (Planned Development Project Application) of the City Zoning Code regarding the Project, as further explained in the staff report, and hereby approves the Project subject to those certain development conditions, attached hereto and incorporated herein as Exhibit C . SECTION 5 . CEQA The City Council does hereby make the finding that the Project is Categorically Exempt from CEQA pursuant to Sections 21083 and 21084 of the Public Resources Code and Section 15332 of the CEQA Guidelines: That the Project is a Class 32 project which consists of projects characterized as in -fill development meeting the conditions described in this section: (a) the Project is consistent with the applicable general plan City of San Leandro Page 3 Printed on 512912012