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Community Design Goal No. 7: Create a more visually attractive City, with well-landscaped and <br />maintained streets, open spaces, and gathering places. <br />Policy CD-7.1: Greening San Leandro. Promote drought-tolerant landscaping, tree planting, and <br />tree preservation along San Leandro streets as a means of improving aesthetics, making <br />neighborhoods more pedestrian-friendly, providing environmental benefits, and creating or <br />maintaining a park-like setting. <br />Policy CD-7.2: Tree Maintenance. Encourage tree maintenance practices that contribute to the <br />long-term health and appearance of the City’s urban forest. <br />Policy CD-7.3: Tree Removal and Replacement. Discourage the removal of healthy trees and <br />require replacements for any trees that are removed from street rights-of-way. Where healthy <br />trees must be removed, consider their relocation to other suitable sites instead of their disposal. <br />Encourage the preservation and proper care of mature trees throughout the City, particularly <br />those which may have historic importance or contribute substantially to neighborhood <br />character. <br />Policy CD-7.4: Urban Open Space. Encourage the incorporation of drought-tolerant landscaped <br />open spaces, such as plazas, courtyards and pocket parks, within new development and <br />redevelopment projects. <br />Policy CD-7.5: Street Beautification. Upgrade the City’s commercial thoroughfares by building <br />upon their existing strengths and improving their aesthetic qualities. The City should implement <br />programs to underground utilities, abate weeds and graffiti, eliminate litter, improve facades, <br />improve buffers to adjacent residential uses, prohibit excessive or out-of-scale signage, remove <br />billboards, and provide streetscape amenities and landscaping along these thoroughfares. <br />San Leandro Zoning Code <br />The City’s Zoning Code identifies specific zoning districts within the San Leandro and development <br />standards that apply to each district. The B-TOD land use category was formed through the City’s <br />recent General Plan update and establishes which uses are permitted. The City will amend the <br />Zoning Code after the proposed Specific Plan is adopted by the City Council to include the proposed <br />B-TOD zoning to be consistent with the Specific Plan, with permitted uses as described in Section <br />2.3.2 and in Chapter 4, “Land Use and Housing” of the Specific Plan. The existing Zoning Code <br />further specifies regulations regarding outdoor lighting restrictions, tree protection measures, and <br />site plan review standards as they relate to new construction and development within San Leandro. <br />Section 4-1732 of the code specifies height and illumination limits for landscaped parking areas and <br />within residential districts, and Section 4-1906 provides protective measures for trees within <br />development sites, and multiple sections specify design review criteria and processes for projects <br />within specific districts. <br />East 14th Street Plans <br />The City of San Leandro and Alameda County have each established plans for the segments of East <br />14th Street that are adjacent to the Specific Plan Area, extending for several miles in either <br />direction. Many of the concepts in both plans – such as transitions to adjacent residential <br />neighborhoods, corridor design and land use strategies, transportation and street facilities, and <br />streetscape concepts – are relevant to the portions of East 14th Street within Specific Plan Area. <br />Regarding the visual aspects of the East 14th Street corridor, the City’s East 14th Street South Area <br />Development Strategy includes the following goals and policies: <br />132