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PLN2001-00046 2 3/4/2002 The subject property is approximately 50 feet wide and 140 feet deep. While department files show building permits from 1952 for a single-family home, the site has been vacant for at least 30 years. Except for two citrus trees, there is no vegetation of any significance on the site. The applicant is proposing to rezone the site from a P District to a PHD District. This would provide the necessary zoning designation to allow the applicant to apply for a conditional use permit to develop the site with a mixed -use development. The development currently being considered by the applicant is a 1,600 square -foot office building along the street frontage and a single-family home behind it. Parking would be provided on -site for both uses. The lot is 7,000 square -feet in area and meets the Zoning Code standards for minimum lot area and minimum lot width in the PHD District. The subject property is located at the end of a P District that runs along Estudillo Avenue. However, while the project site is flanked by other P-zoned parcels, it is essentially outside the P zone in terms of actual use. The final P-zoned property is the parcel immediately to the east, which is developed with a single-family home. The subject parcel is vacant. The first parcel west of Bancroft Avenue which is developed with a use that is permitted in the P District is the San Leandro School District building to the west of this property. Changing this parcel to a PHD District, while it would be the only one in this area, would give the current property owner (and future ones) the option to consider housing uses on the site. Normally, a proposal that requests a Zoning Code change with a particular end use in mind would go through a Planned Development (PD) process. This allows the Planning Commission and the City Council to review both the zoning change request and the development anticipated. In those cases, the reviewing bodies are allowed to add conditions as it is deemed appropriate. In this situation, the parcel does not meet the minimum size requirement for a PD development (20,000 square feet for predominantly commercial uses) as stipulated in the Zoning Code (Section 3-1012 A). That means that the zoning code change and the proposed use of the site are two completely separate issues, heard before separate bodies. The Planning Commission and the City Council will consider the validity of the change to the zoning district of this parcel. If the zoning change is granted, the applicant will then apply to the Board of Zoning Adjustments (BZA) for conditional use permit approval of the mixed -use development. The BZA would be the decision -making body to review the details of the proposed development and to place conditions on its use. Staff has included the site plan with this application as an informational item only. Current Cite Council Police Not applicable Previous City Council Action Not applicable N