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SUMMARY TITLE: This Ordinance facilitates shared living facilities in certain zoning districts, with a discretionary use permit, to allow private living quarters without private kitchen facilities.
Public Hearing to Consider Introduction of Ordinance Amending the Alameda Municipal Code by Amending Chapter XXX (Zoning Ordinance) to Add Shared Living to the Definitions and the Commercial Districts with Approval of a Use Permit in the Neighborhood Business, Central Business, and Community Commercial Districts. The Amendment Allows a Proposed Shared Living Project at 1629 Webster Street. [The proposed amendments are categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15305, Minor Alterations to Land Use Limitations]. (Community Development 481005) [Continued from May 16, 2017]
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jill Keimach, City Manager
Re: Public Hearing and Introduction of an Ordinance Amending Chapter XXX of the Alameda Municipal Code (Zoning Ordinance) to Allow Shared Living with Approval of a Use Permit in the Neighborhood Business, Central Business, and Community Commercial Districts [The proposed amendments are categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15305, Minor Alterations to Land Use Limitations]
BACKGROUND
On March 27, 2017, the Planning Board held a public hearing and recommended that the City Council approve an amendment to the Alameda Municipal Code (AMC) Chapter 30 ("zoning code") to conditionally permit shared living facilities above the ground floor in Alameda's mixed use commercial districts. In addition, the Board approved a design review, use permit, and parking waiver (PLN16-0185) to allow a new three-story mixed-use building with ground floor retail and a 16-bed senior shared living facility on the second and third floors at 1629 Webster Street. The approved project cannot ap...
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