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areas of the industrial districts to nurture and attract them. The current General <br />Plan Land Use subchapter "Business and Industry" (3-43) contained the following <br />discussion regarding Industrial Districts: <br />"To take full advantage of the City's economic potential, older industrial <br />buildings and sites will need to be adapted for contemporary uses. <br />Redevelopment project areas have been formed in most of the City's <br />industrial districts to facilitate this process. Redevelopment and economic <br />assistance programs have already begun to reshape the areas around the <br />Downtown BART Station and along Marina Boulevard. In other areas, the <br />emphasis has been on adaptive reuse. For instance, the former Kaiser <br />Aerotech plant has been adapted for long term airport parking, and the <br />former Aluserve plant on Davis Street has been adapted for cotton <br />processing. Similar opportunities exist at the Kellogg's plant on Williams <br />Street, and at several other former manufacturing sites. In some cases, <br />interim uses of such buildings may take place until market conditions justify <br />more comprehensive reuse of the sites." (3-45) <br />Adaptive re -use is a necessary, practical and in many cases obligatory approach to <br />ensure property tenancy. However, opportunistic and undirected adaptive re -use <br />has gradually resulted in predominance of low employment density and low value- <br />added per square foot uses (such as with transitions from manufacturing to <br />warehouse use, or manufacturing to parking) for much of the industrial areas , and <br />scattered isolation of higher value-added manufacturing uses. With the loss of <br />redevelopment and tax -increment financing as a municipal economic tool, the City <br />will need to increase collaboration with private business, nonprofit, and training <br />partners to strengthen innovation -driven business and employment opportunities. <br />It will also need to combine "tactical" programs, capital improvements, and <br />regulatory changes that only the City can lead on and orchestrate. This needs to be <br />specifically out in the General Plan. <br />3.3.3.2.2. Under Goal 7, Industrial and Office Districts of Chapter 3 Land Use - BUSINESS AND <br />INDUSTRY Goals, Policies and Actions (3-59), recommended modifications include <br />the following overall and WEST SAN LEANDRO BUSINESS DISTRICT items: <br />3.3.3.2.2.1. Create a Business District "Activity Center" cluster at the "Kaiser North" <br />retail parcel (as well as adjacent parcels), (Figs. 29 & 30) to include mixed <br />workplace and district -supporting uses such as restaurants and cafes, <br />business hotel(s), meeting and conference spaces, co -work facilities, <br />education and training facilities, business services, exercise gyms and spas, <br />personal services, and upper story office and workspaces (the latter may <br />require further discussion and zoning modification). These types of mixed <br />uses in the same cluster, properly configured, will provide a base of <br />24 <br />