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File Number: 17-103 This correction affects both the General Plan Land Use Diagram and the Zoning Map. There are four parcels affected (APNs 77-450-2-1, 77-450-3, 77-450-5-1, and 77-450-4). The associated addresses include 170, 174, and 190 Chumalia Avenue and 1051, 1055, 1069, 1071, 1079, and 1085 Harrison Street. The combined area of the properties is about 39,000 square feet and the existing use on all parcels is rental housing. The General Plan and Zoning changes are in Attachment 1, consistent with the map exhibits to the attached Resolution and Ordinance. The properties are under common ownership and part of a larger development of rental housing that occupies the block west of Harrison Street and north of Chumalia Avenue, extending to Hyde Street on the west and San Leandro Creek on the north. The block includes the Cecilia Court “cottages” as well as other rental housing units facing Harrison and Chumalia. The western part of this block was correctly re-designated from “High Density Residential” to “Downtown Mixed Use” as part of the 2016 General Plan Update and concurrently rezoned from RM-1800 to DA-1. The eastern part of the block was unintentionally omitted, retaining the previous General Plan designation and zoning. The intent of the General Plan Land Use Diagram re-designation for Cecilia Court was to recognize long-term (20 year) opportunities for higher density and mixed use development on the property, because it is located one block from the proposed East 14th Street Bus Rapid Transit system, four blocks from BART, and adjacent to City-owned property currently planned for future development at East 14th Street and Chumalia. Since the property is in single ownership and part of the same development (despite being comprised of multiple parcels and structures), it should not have been “split” into multiple zones and General Plan designations. The correction will extend the Downtown Mixed Use designation and the DA-1 zoning east to Harrison Street. The facing (east) side of Harrison Street north of Chumalia is currently developed with a four story multi-family housing development. Thus, the higher density designation is appropriate for the intervening properties between Cecilia Court and Harrison Street. 555 Estudillo Avenue This is a Zoning Map correction only. No change to the General Plan is proposed, and no change in use is proposed. The location and proposed change are in Attachment 1, consistent with the map exhibit attached to the Ordinance. The Zoning Map change affects a single 7,088 square foot parcel at 555 Estudillo Avenue currently developed with a small condominium project. The property is an area that was re-designated from “Office” to “Downtown Mixed Use” on the Land Use Diagram as part of the General Plan Update. Other parcels in this vicinity were similarly re-designated, recognizing the existing pattern of mixed residential and commercial uses along Estudillo Street on the east side of Downtown San Leandro, and the elimination of the “Office” category from the General Plan Land Use Diagram in 2016. As part of the General Plan re-designation, this parcel and those around it were part of a proposed rezoning to “DA-2” in June 2016. However, following a series of community Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 3/13/2017 48