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Consulting Services Agreement between City of San Leandro and Last revised 07/02/2021 Rincon Consultants for Housing Element Update and EIR Exhibit A – Page 8 of 21 Task J. General Plan Amendments General Plan Consistency Rincon will review relevant legislation that has passed since the City’s 2035 General Plan update and its applicability to San Leandro. Analysis of relevant legislation and assessment of potentia l City document amendments will guide our recommendations regarding public engagement and review. The Rincon team will prepare a General Plan Amendments Recommendations Memorandum detailing the findings of our legislative analysis and City planning documen t review and provide recommendations for amendments to the Land Use and Safety Elements to provide for consistency with the Housing Element. The three primary housing growth areas prioritized in the General Plan and other recent planning efforts – downtown, Bay Fair, and the East 14th corridor – are anticipated to continue providing most of the new higher density housing sites in the City through this Housing Element Update, with some additional housing also anticipated in some other areas such as the Shoreline area and some existing residential neighborhoods. The Recommendations Memorandum will also identify if updates may be needed to existing area -specific planning documents – such as the Downtown Transit-Oriented Development Strategy, the Bay Fair TOD Specific Plan, or the East 14th Street South Area Development Strategy – in addition to recommended General Plan amendments. At the same time, these three growth areas provide a significant amount of untapped housing development potential just through existing general plan and zoning allowances. As a result, the Rincon team will seek to avoid extraneous General Plan or zoning amendments by accommodating Housing Element growth and sites within existing General Plan and zoning allowances when possible. This task will also include review of ongoing effort to create citywide objective design standards for multi -family residences, to understand if any recommended general plan amendments, zoning amendments, or other changes to existing housing development potential are anticipated or recommended as a result of the process. In addition, Rincon will outline the legislative requirements and recommendations from the California Office of Planning and Research (OPR) concerning environmental justice. General Plan Amendments Upon approval of the General Plan Amendments Recommendations Memorandum, the Rincon team, led for this task by Miller Planning Associates, will prepare an Administrative Draft of Land Use Element Amendments found to be necessary. Based on the evaluation of the current General Plan, issues and opportunities identified as part of the legislative analysis, and in conjunction with the Housing Element Update, we will prepare revisions to existing goals, policies, and actions, as appropriate and propose new g oals, policies, and actions, as appropriate. This effort will focus on refinements and updates to address key policy topics, new plans and trends, and new State mandates and guidelines. We will strive to make the updated Land Use Element self-mitigating, working with City staff to craft policies and actions that address physical change and environmental issues. We will look at those policies and actions through a CEQA lens to determine the likely outcome of the EIR DocuSign Envelope ID: 52DE9C19-FF3F-4BE0-99DB-BF80F1BD0FBC