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Minutes - San Leandro City Council Meeting - August 21, 1995 Page - 7 - CONSENT CALENDAR (continued) assure the applicant meets very strict guidelines. She said the applicant must be shut out from the private loan market before applying through this program. She described the review process, security, and the investment in the restaurant to be made by the applicant. In response to Council questions, Steve Emslie, Planning Manager, described the zoning of the property and discussed the Zoning Code determination made relative to parking, which is non-conforming. He said the restaurant will be a creative way to share parking because peak times are staggered with other uses. Ms. McCue explained why this is considered a small business and said the process for approval has included many months of exhaustive review, including review by an outside agency. She said $111,000 would remain in the Small Business Loan fund for the remainder of Fiscal Year 1995- 96 and pointed out that no other applications are pending. She said restaurants have been shown to be a desired use in the area. Council Member Loeffler asked how much dialogue there had been with the neighborhood; Ms. McCue said the applicant met with the homeowners' association on numerous occasions. The City Manager said it is not possible to develop the North Area under the terms applied to new development because there is no parking unless structures are removed. He said that was discussed, and a conscious decision was made by the City Council in the North Area Plan to allow different kinds of parking and to develop additional public parking, and funds are being set aside to do that. Council Member Polvorosa said he has received a number of comments from people in the neighborhood waiting for a restaurant to come in. He said there is a parking problem, but there is also a vacancy problem which is of greater concern. He said he would like to see the building occupied and parking addressed later. The following Resolution was then introduced: Resolution No. 95-177, Resolution Approving Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Small Business Loan and Regulatory Agreement with Michael H. Wiesner and Kathy Greenstone-Sherman, Owners, Paradiso (provides for financial assistance to small business, as outlined in the City's "CDBG Economic Development - Small Business Loan Guidelines") . (2730) Introduced by Council Member Loeffler, who moved its adoption, seconded by Council Member Polvorosa, and carried by a majority vote (7) .