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File Number: 14-207 City of San Leandro Page 19 Printed 5/27/2014 potential indirect secondary impacts from the proposed amendments on the physical environment are speculative and are not reasonably foreseeable, and are, therefore, not subject to review under CEQA. Board/Commission Review and Actions On January 30, 2014, Planning staff conferred with the Planning Commission and the Board of Zoning Adjustments in a joint worksession on the proposed Zoning Code Amendments. Consensus was reached on the majority of proposed changes, with recommendations made on a number of topics that were brought back to both bodies in April. On April 3, 2014, the Board of Zoning Adjustments reviewed the changes and provided support for the proposed changes. On April 17, 2014, the Planning Commission held a public hearing and reviewed the final set of proposed changes. The Commission made four revisions to the staff proposal, which included: A) Add to the Entertainment Event language text that defines a televised stand-alone event as one including a set start and/or end time in the advertising B) Omit Dance Club from C-RM District uses C) Restore “Bowling Alley” and the word “participant” to the Commercial Recreation definition D) Delete “recurrently needed” from the description of “services of a personal nature” in the definition of Retail Services With the above changes to the staff proposal, the Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of the Zoning Code Amendments to City Council by a vote of 5-0. All of the above changes have been included in the attached Ordinance recommended for City Council adoption. Staff expanded item A to include the definition for “stand-alone event” to apply to all of the forms of Entertainment Events rather than limit that sub-definition only to televised events. Summary of Public Outreach Efforts A press release was issued prior to the January 30, 2014 Board of Zoning Adjustments - Planning Commission joint worksession, along with a courtesy notice to all neighborhood associations and to the San Leandro Chamber of Commerce. News articles covering the proposed Zoning Code amendments were published in the San Leandro Times and the Daily Review. Public comment at the work session was opposed to the proposal to modify entertainment regulations through the Municipal Code. A comprehensive update to entertainment policy is not proposed at this time. Community Development staff, with the consultant team that wrote up the Next Generation Workplace District Study, conducted a series of meetings with the community where the proposal to increase flexibility within industrial regulations in the Zoning Code was presented. These included: a presentation to City Council in September 2013; a community meeting and a City Council worksession in October 2013; an Industrial Area Working Group meeting in January 2014; and a City Council worksession on the next steps for implementing the Next Generation plan in February 2014. Business Development and Planning staff presented the proposed amendments to the Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneurs Business Forum on May 20, 2014.