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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: January 18, 2022 <br />Ordinance <br />Agenda Section:File Number:21-759 CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number:9.N. <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:ORDINANCE of the City of San Leandro City Council Adopting Zoning Code <br />Section 4.04.336, Multi-family and Mixed-Use Residential Development, and <br />Miscellaneous Zoning Code Amendments Related to Objective Development <br />Standards for Multi-Family and Mixed-Use Residential Development Citywide <br />WHEREAS, the State of California and the City of San Leandro face an unprecedented <br />housing shortage and affordability crisis. In 2019, the Legislature concluded that “California has a <br />housing supply and affordability crisis of historic proportions”; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Housing Accountability Act, Government Code section 65589.5, restricts <br />the City of San Leandro’s ability to deny or reduce the density of all housing development projects <br />(including residential development, transitional and supportive housing, and residential mixed use <br />development) that are consistent with objective development standards; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, per Senate Bill 35 (“SB 35”) (2017), Government Code section 65913.4 <br />establishes a developer-initiated process to streamline the review and approval of housing <br />developments (i.e., those proposing two or more multifamily units) meeting specific criteria, <br />including affordable housing requirements and labor requirements. Such housing projects will be <br />eligible for ministerial approval, which means the project is exempt from environmental review <br />under CEQA and will only be subject to “objective” development standards; and <br />WHEREAS, the City seeks to adopt measurable and clear objective development <br />standards applicable to multi-family and mixed-use developments (“Objective Standards”), in <br />accordance with State law; and <br />WHEREAS, such Objective Standards will be applicable to multi-family and mixed-use <br />housing development projects, as defined by the Housing Accountability Act, and as mandatory <br />standards for all qualifying projects seeking streamlined, ministerial review under SB 35; and <br />WHEREAS, the State provided grant funding to the City of San Leandro to develop <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 1/14/2022 <br />521