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  <br />congest all surrounding residential neighborhoods with increased demands on already limited street <br />parking. And then before you know it, we residents will be facing two hour parking limits in front of our houses and parking permit requirements!!! <br />Buildings up to 50 feet tall – Absolutely NOT! <br />I agree that change and growth here in San Leandro, to accommodate the needs of the SF Bay Area <br />is appropriate; but not by bringing retail/downtown business into the existing residential areas and <br />allowing structures of up to 50 feet in height to be built on these properties. <br />I am a 4th generation native San Franciscan and lived in the city for 50 years. I witnessed the <br />increasing population density, traffic, parking issues, and overcrowding in the city first hand. But, SF <br />did not build new high rise apartments in established residential areas, rather they redeveloped <br />blighted areas of “downtown” – South of Market, the Embarcadero, etc. creating thriving new <br />communities without disrupting already existing residential neighborhoods. <br />If indeed one of San Leandro’s goals is to welcome families who work in San Francisco <br />to a more affordable, comfortable and peaceful community, constructing dense housing in areas that cannot accommodate the stress on its infrastructure, will achieve nothing <br />but headaches for new and existing San Leandrans. <br />New Commercial Uses: <br />The zoning change of the Estudillo/Bancroft properties will allow for new uses, many of which are <br />inappropriate in a residential neighborhood area, and near a school. Specifically, the City Planning <br />Services Director’s 6/16/16 document presented at the Planning Commission meeting of that date <br />specifies that these areas on Estudillo could now offer… bars, atm’s, home improvement & custom industry, fast food establishments and other retail sales, including drugstores. While I understand <br />that some of these businesses would need separate approval in order to operate, overall, this is <br />unacceptable. The existing downtown area of San Leandro has plenty of drug stores and an <br />abundance of vacant retail space to accommodate other retail sales. That said, I would love to have <br />more fine dining opportunities in our fair City. <br />Market Rate Rents: <br />Conversation surrounding this re-zoning proposal, refers to the proposed new apartment units in <br />“DA-2 San Leandro”, specifically the development proposed for 1300 – 1380 Bancroft, being rented <br />at “market rate”. “Market Rate” in this instance is being identified as $4,000 per month rent for a 2 bedroom/2 bath apartment. The reason folks are looking to leave San Francisco is that they cannot <br />afford the “market rates”. And those who choose to stick it out, are living 4 to 6 people in a two <br />bedroom apartment – which is what it takes to pay that market rate rent bill. 4 to 6 individuals in one apartment have 4 to 6 cars, not the planned 1.5 vehicles per unit. <br /> <br />The issues I have identified above are legitimate concerns that San Leandro City Officials must seriously consider. Reference has been made to the EIR and that traffic congestion was not <br />identified as a problem in the Estudillo and Bancroft areas currently targeted for this re-zoning from <br />P to DA-2. What the EIR did not address was how the increase of traffic due to a denser population <br />B01-04cont. <br />B01-05 <br />B01-06 <br />B01-07 <br />B01-08