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File Number: 20-045 <br />ongoing work program. <br />PROPOSAL <br />The proposed update renumbers and reformats the Zoning Code to be consistent with the <br />three-tier numbering system currently used in the City’s Municipal Code and Administrative Code. <br />The Zoning Code’s current format uses a two-tier numbering system that limits flexibility when <br />inserting amendments, is complicated for the public to navigate, and prevents the use of <br />hyperlinking and certain indexing features unique to online code publishing. The proposed <br />re-chaptering does not alter existing development standards or implementation, but instead <br />reorganizes the Zoning Code in a more logical and coherent manner with an expandable <br />numbering system. The new numbering also designates reserved chapters to add new subject <br />matter as future needs arise. The online version of the re-chaptered three-tier Zoning Code will <br />allow the use of hyperlinks for cross-referencing State laws and other related code sections. This <br />re-chaptering effort is necessary in advance of the Bay Fair TOD Specific Plan Zoning Code <br />updates to be considered by the Planning Commission and City Council later this summer. <br />In addition to the proposed re-chaptering, staff took this opportunity to conduct a comprehensive <br />review and editing of the Zoning Code to incorporate recent State legislation involving home child <br />care and Accessory Dwelling Units, to remove the 5-permit cap on cannabis product <br />manufacturing associated with the pilot program limitation, and to correct known errors and <br />inconsistencies. The proposed changes and corrections are non-substantive and do not modify <br />the established underlying development standards of the current Code. Most of the changes <br />primarily relate to cross-referencing errors, grammatical errors, and inconsistencies inadvertently <br />created when prior code updates modified one section exclusive of another. <br />Large Family Child Care Homes <br />Senate Bill 234 (Skinner), signed by Governor Newsom on September 5, 2019, makes every <br />licensed large family childcare home a permitted use by right. A large family childcare home is <br />defined as “a day care facility in a single residence where an occupant of the residence provides <br />family day care for seven (7) to fourteen (14) clients.” This State law, effective January 1, 2020, <br />requires the City to discontinue any permit requirements for large family childcare homes in the <br />Zoning Code. Under the new legislation, the California Department of Social Services Community <br />Care Licensing Division and local fire departments will be responsible for reviewing and <br />approving family childcare homes. A similar bill from 2004 previously made small family childcare <br />homes a permitted use (those with fewer than seven children). In order to comply with State law, <br />staff prepared amendments to Section 2-516, now 2.04.224. <br />Accessory Dwelling Units <br />Six different bills signed by Governor Newsom that further regulate Accessory Dwelling Units <br />(ADU) took effect on January 1, 2020. The bills include a prohibition on imposing development <br />impact fees on new ADUs less than 750 square feet in size (SB 13), specific development <br />standards including a height limit of 16 feet, minimum setbacks of 4 feet and the elimination of <br />minimum lot size requirements (AB 68), a mandatory 60-day review and approval period (AB 68), <br />and a prohibition on requiring property owner occupancy of either the primary or accessory <br />Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 2/25/2020 <br />9