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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: September 7, 2021 <br />Staff Report <br />Agenda Section:File Number:21-492 PUBLIC HEARINGS <br />Agenda Number:5.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:Staff Report for City of San Leandro City Council Public Hearing and <br />Consideration of an Ordinance Approving Anti-Displacement Mobile Home Park <br />Policy Amendments, Including Zoning Code Amendments to Add Chapter 3.34, <br />MHP Mobile Home Park Overlay District, and Amend Chapter 5.28, Mobile <br />Home Park Conversions, and Zoning Map Amendments to Apply the MHP <br />Overlay Zone to Mobile Home Park Sites Citywide <br />SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION <br />Staff recommends that the City Council introduce an Ordinance adopting Zoning Code and <br />Zoning Map Amendments to strengthen anti-displacement policies for mobile home park <br />residents. The proposed Zoning Code amendments would add Chapter 3.34, MHP Mobile Home <br />Park Overlay District, and amend Chapter 5.28, Mobile Home Park Conversions. The proposed <br />Zoning Map Amendments would apply the MHP Overlay Zone to all existing mobile home park <br />sites. <br />The Planning Commission reviewed the proposed amendments and unanimously recommended <br />approval to the City Council on July 1, 2021, with amendments to further enhance protections for <br />residents. <br />BACKGROUND <br />On December 7, 2020, the City Council directed staff to report to the City Council Rules <br />Committee in six to eight months to discuss supplemental mobile home park protections <br />city-wide in response to concerns about displacement within the City’s transit-oriented <br />development (TOD) growth areas including the Bay Fair TOD Plan, which the City adopted in <br />2018. <br />Mobile homes are an important and common form of affordable housing not only in San Leandro, <br />but nationwide; and, an important affordable housing resource, particularly for the senior <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 9/2/2021 <br />16