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File Number: 16-335 <br />meeting. A detailed presentation on the proposed changes to the Zoning Code will be made <br />at the July 25, 2016 City Council Work Session to ensure that there is sufficient time for input <br />and discussion of the proposed changes. Following input on July 25th, staff anticipates <br />returning with final recommendations for the consideration of the Planning Commission at a <br />public hearing tentatively scheduled for August 25, 2016, and City Council, tentatively <br />scheduled for September 19, 2016. <br />BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS <br />Proposed Zoning Code Amendments <br />The sections below outline the proposed amendments to San Leandro Zoning Code Articles 3 <br />Definitions, Article 6 Commercial and Professional Districts, and Article 7 Industrial Districts. <br />The proposed Code text changes are outlined below by each affected Article of the Zoning <br />Code. Please note that the changes proposed are shown in summary format in the attached <br />development regulations tables and follow the protocol for formal ordinance changes, i.e., <br />underlined and bolded text represents new text proposed to the Zoning Code; strike through <br />text represents text that is proposed to be eliminated. <br />The proposed Zoning Map changes are shown in the attached series of maps. The protocol <br />used to show the changes are shown as in the following example: IP > IT, which signifies that <br />the subject site currently zoned as IP Industrial Park is being proposed to be rezoned to IT <br />Industrial Transition. <br />Proposed Amendments to Article 3, Definitions <br />Staff proposes to amend two definitions in Article 3, as follows: <br />Health and Fitness Centers. Health and Fitness Centers. Establishments with <br />equipment for exercise and physical conditioning. This classification includes spas, gyms, <br />tennis clubs, racquet ball clubs, pools, sports courts and fields, climbing walls, skating rinks, <br />batting cages, diet centers, reducing salons, fitness studios, health studios, and massage <br />therapy as an accessory use to another health and fitness center use. Any such facilities <br />that offer alcoholic beverage service shall be defined as commercial recreation. <br />Staff has received numerous proposals to create innovative sports training or gyms that would <br />include an accessory café or restaurant activity. As Commercial Recreation is not an allowed use <br />in the majority of the industrial areas, the restriction in the Health and Fitness definition in 2012 <br />has seriously limited the choice of properties for these innovative uses. In order to allow these <br />uses, a change in the definition is recommended. <br />Industry, General. Manufacturing of products, primarily from extracted or raw materials, or <br />bulk storage and handling of such products and materials. Uses in this classification <br />typically involve a high incidence of truck or rail traffic, and/or outdoor storage of products, <br />materials, equipment, or bulk fuel. This classification includes chemical manufacture or <br />processing, laundry and dry cleaning plants, and auto dismantling within an enclosed <br />building, and stonework and concrete products manufacture. This classification excludes <br />the processing of recycled materials as a facility regulated by Section 4-1646: Recycling <br />Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 6/28/2016