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an already developed neighborhood is not considered a large volume that warrants the proposed gates and fences. The gates and fencing would be detrimental to the convenience of public access to the San Francisco Bay Trail and the City's Shoreline Recreation Area. Tract Map 6810 specifies a Public Access Easement (PAE) on Bayfront Drive from the Lewelling Boulevard circle to the western terminus of Bayfront Drive. This is to permit access to the Bay Trail west of the Heron Bay development. The intent of the PAE was to provide vehicle and pedestrian access on Bayfront to the Bay Trail. As stated in the City Engineer's Report and Conditions of Approval for Vesting Tentative Map Tract 6665 (an earlier Map to Tract 6810), it requires a public access easement shall be provided over Bayfront Drive to allow for public pedestrian and vehicular ingress, egress and parking for access to the Shoreline Trail and the Interpretive Center. 3. That the proposed use will comply with the provisions of this code; including any specific condition required for the proposed use, in the district, in which it would be located. The Zoning Code provides that a Planned Development is a special zoning entitlement that is granted after individual review of the specific application which includes site planning, use of the property, architecture, landscaping, etc. The applicant and property owner propose to modify the approved Planned Development to allow for installation of vehicular and pedestrian access gates at the entry to Heron Bay which would result in the creation of a gated residential neighborhood. The request to modify the property development regulation shall be treated as a new application for the Planned Development approval. The previous approval was intended not to isolate the neighborhood from the immediate community. The proposed gates and fencing would be contrary to the approved PD. To gate a single-family residential neighborhood is not supported by policy in San Leandro. The proposal would establish an undesirable precedent in the City's efforts to planning residential neighborhoods, and specifically single-family neighborhoods in the City which are typically not gated. 4. That the proposed use will not create adverse impacts on traffic or create demands exceeding the capacity of public services and facilities, which cannot be mitigated. The proposed vehicle gates and fences on Bayfront Drive will be for residents only. Ingress for visitors in vehicles will only be permitted at the Anchorage Drive vehicle gates. Visitor traffic including guests, delivery services, regular maintenance workers and utility workers, may create traffic impacts on Anchorage Drive and the east -west streets that it feeds, such as Charter Way, Mariner Way, Oceanside Way, etc. All of the visitor traffic to the 178 motor court units and the residences on the west side of the neighborhood would be required to travel on Anchorage Drive and one of the east -west streets, to their northern or western destination in the neighborhood. The current open design allows ingress from Bayfront Drive and Anchorage Drive and does not concentrate ingress vehicle traffic to Anchorage Drive and the east -west streets.