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PLN2001-00046 3 3/4/2002 City Council Committee Re,,iew and Action Not applicable Applicable General Plan Policy The General Plan designates the subject property as "Trend Change." The General Plan explains that trend change areas are "areas in which land use patterns are changing and the economic and social factors at work are not always clear and predictable." The 1989 General Plan specifically calls out "Areas near the Downtown Core", where changes from low -density to high -density residential are evident, as well as shifts from residential to office and other commercial uses. Zoning changes in this area, according to the Plan, need to be carefully evaluated in terms of street capacity and circulation issues. The Draft General Plan Land Use Map stipulates an Office designation for the property, with High Density Residential designated to the north, Office designated to the east and west, and Low Density Residential designated to the south. The proposed PHD rezoning will be consistent with the proposed Office description on the General Plan Land Use Map. In this case, rezoning this property will not radically change the uses permitted on the site. All of the permitted uses in the P District and PHD District are identical, except that retail services in the PHD district are limited to beauty and barber shops, shoeshine and shoe repair businesses. Conditionally permitted uses do vary between the two zoning designations. The PHD District is more restrictive than the P District in the number of uses conditionally permitted. The main difference is that the PHD district allows a variety of housing uses to be conditionally considered, while the P district prohibits them. Given the location of this parcel, with single-family homes abutting it on two sides, a residential use could be more compatible with the surrounding land uses than another commercial use. Rezoning this parcel from P to PHD will allow future developers to consider this site for mixed -use and multi -family developments that would be compatible with the other uses in the area. Permits and/or Variances Granted Not applicable Environmental Review Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act, a Negative Declaration has been prepared for this project. Copies of the Initial Study/Negative Declaration have been available for public review at the Community Development Department and at the San Leandro Main Library. A copy of the Negative Declaration and Initial Study is attached. The public review period for the document was from December 21, 2001 to January 9, 2002. No comments were received. S