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File Number: 20-525 BART, Madison Marquette (the owner of the Bayfair Center), and Alameda County. The Specific Plan Area covers 154 acres primarily comprised of commercial uses with a mix of office, light industrial, and residential uses. The area includes the Bay Fair BART Station, Bayfair Center, Fashion Faire Place, and Fairmont Square Shopping Center, which are divided by East 14th Street and Hesperian Boulevard. The Specific Plan was created to promote the long-term sustainability and vibrancy of the Bay Fair BART Station area and to establish it as a regional Priority Development Area (PDA) in order to: §Provide greater access to public funding targeted to TOD areas; §Incentivize/streamline the regulatory process for future TOD developments; §Continue City and private investments in South San Leandro; and §Add the final planning piece to the City’s East 14th Street corridor, following the East 14th South Area Strategy (2004) and the Downtown TOD Strategy (2007), all in compliance with MTC’s regional Plan Bay Area 2040. Throughout the multi-year Specific Plan development process, the City implemented a broad public outreach effort. On February 20, 2018, the City Council certified the Specific Plan EIR and adopted the Bay Fair TOD Specific Plan. The Specific Plan establishes a long-term vision for a sustainable, vibrant, walkable, and safe transit-oriented village with a diversity of land uses serving residents, workers, and visitors. Since the Specific Plan’s adoption, the state legislature has further regulated how local governments process development applications in favor of streamlined (non-discretionary) reviews based only on objective development standards (SB35, SB330). As such, development and design standards in the B-TOD District will be objective as opposed to design guidelines that could be interpreted differently by different parties. The B-TOD District has also been drafted for consistency with AB 2923, which requires certain zoning minimums on BART-owned property in order to support transit-oriented development. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS The City-sponsored Bay Fair TOD amendments are a critical next step in implementing the Specific Plan. The proposed amendments include: ·Zoning Code Amendment - The proposed amendments would add Chapter 2.10, Bay Fair Transit-Oriented Development District, and Chapter 5.14, Development Plan Approval, to the San Leandro Zoning Code. Amend Chapters 1.12, 4.04, 4.08, and 4.12 and remove references to the C-RM District. The proposed development standards serve to implement the Specific Plan by establishing clear development and design criteria for projects in the Bay Fair Transit-Oriented Development District. However, staff has also proposed new standards for minimum residential densities, publicly accessible open space, and parking maximums to further the goals and vision of the Specific Plan for a compact, vibrant, multi-modal transit-village. The proposed amendments are included as Exhibit A to the attached ordinance. Redlined amendments are shown in Attachment 1. ·Zoning Map Amendment - The proposed amendments would apply the B-TOD Zoning Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 12/2/2020