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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: July 6, 2021 <br />Staff Report <br />Agenda Section:File Number:21-417 PRESENTATIONS <br />Agenda Number:4.A. <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Fran Robustelli <br />City Manager <br />BY:Tom Liao <br />Community Development Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Not Applicable <br />TITLE:Multi-Family Development Standards Project Update <br />SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Staff and the consultant team will present a status update for the Multi-Family Development <br />Standards Zoning Code Amendment Project. No formal actions related to this project are <br />agendized at this time. Staff and consultant also made this similar presentation to Planning <br />Commission on July 1, 2021. <br />BACKGROUND <br />As California's housing supply and homelessness crisis continues, the State has taken a number <br />of actions aimed at reducing barriers to the creation of housing. Through the “Building Homes and <br />Jobs Act” Planning Grants Program (SB2), the State has provided grant funding for the City to <br />evaluate the General Plan and Zoning Ordinance to develop objective design and development <br />standards intended to stimulate high quality multi-family residential and mixed-use development. <br />The City hired a consultant team led by Miller Planning Associates with support by Urban Field <br />Studio and Lexington Planning to assist with this effort. <br />ANALYSIS <br />The Multi-Family Development Standards Project will establish new objective design and <br />development standards for each Zoning District that accommodates multi-family and/or <br />mixed-use development. Objective standards will provide property owners and developers with <br />greater predictability and will help streamline the development review process in accordance with <br />recent changes in state law. <br />The first phase of the project, analysis and assessment, is complete. The analysis and <br />assessment phase consisted of the evaluation of development constraints, community preference <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 7/1/2021 <br />11