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SAN LEANDRO GENERAL PLAN UPDATE FINAL EIR <br />CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />COMMENTS AND RESPONSES <br />5-12 AUGUST 2016 <br />TABLE 5-1 COMMENTS AND RESPONSE MATRIX <br />Comment # Date Comment Response <br />B01-04 <br /> <br />Parking:With denser population comes a greater demand for vehicle parking. To imagine <br />that folks who move into new rental properties will have 1.5 cars per unit is absurd. That <br />planning approach will congest all surrounding residential neighborhoods with increased <br />demands on already limited street parking. And then before you know it, we residents <br />will be facing two hour parking limits in front of our houses and parking permit <br />requirements!!! <br />Parking is not an environmental issue requiring analysis under CEQA so it was not <br />included in the Draft EIR. However, the availability and use of parking is an <br />important topic to the City. The City's Zoning Code lays out the off-street parking <br />requirements in Part IV, Article 17, Section 4-1704. The commenter mentions 1.5 <br />cars per unit, which corresponds to the requirement for studio and one-bedroom <br />units in mixed-use and multi-family residential developments as well as in the areas <br />zoned DA to implement the Downtown San Leandro Transit-Oriented Development <br />Strategy (Downtown TOD Strategy). As stated in the Downtown TOD Strategy, "The <br />Downtown San Leandro Transit-Oriented Development Strategy is a document that <br />will lead to a new kind of development in downtown San Leandro. This new <br />development will bring more housing, retail and jobs and will result in more <br />attractive and easy to use streets and sidewalks. With more residents living and <br />working there, downtown San Leandro will be a more vibrant and inviting place, and <br />public transit will be better supported and more able to provide the majority of <br />daily transportation needs." The City's Residential Parking Permit Program was <br />developed to protect neighborhood parking for residents. The “Highlights of the San <br />Leandro Residential Parking Permit Program” fact sheet on the City's website <br />(http://www.sanleandro.org/documents/Engineering/RPP%20Highlights%20072312 <br />.pdf) describes the process for initiating a RPP. In addition, the City Council is in the <br />process of considering a Downtown Parking Management Plan. The current draft of <br />the Downtown Parking Management Plan, which was most recently considered at <br />the May 23, 2016 City Council meeting, is available on the City’s website at <br />http://www.sanleandro.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?blobid=25276. <br />B01-05 <br /> <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 <br />SF Bay Area is appropriate; but not by bringing retail/downtown business into the <br />existing residential areas and allowing structures of up to 50 feet in height to be built on <br />these properties. <br /> <br />I am a 4th generation native San Franciscan and lived in the city for 50 years. I witnessed <br />the increasing population density, traffic, parking issues, and overcrowding in the city <br />first hand. But, SF did not build new high rise apartments in established residential areas, <br />rather they redeveloped blighted areas of “downtown” – South of Market, the <br />Embarcadero, etc. creating thriving new communities without disrupting already existing <br />residential neighborhoods. <br /> <br />If indeed one of San Leandro’s goals is to welcome families who work in San Francisco to a <br />more affordable, comfortable and peaceful community, constructing dense housing in <br />areas that cannot accommodate the stress on its infrastructure, will achieve nothing but <br />headaches for new and existing San Leandrans. <br /> <br />As described in Response B01-01, the City Council has removed the proposed DA-2 <br />rezoning referenced by the commmenter. The comment does not state a specific <br />concern or question regarding the sufficiency of the analysis contained in the Draft <br />EIR, nor does the comment raise a new environmental issue. No further response is <br />required.