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PLN17-0589 - Appeal of a Zoning Determination - 1715 Lincoln Avenue, Appellant: Loewke Planning Associates, Inc. on behalf of Keystone Consulting. Public hearing to consider an appeal of the Planning Director's determination of the subject property's C-1, Neighborhood Business zoning on the Zoning Map and Neighborhood Business land use designation under the General Plan.
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PLN17-0589 - Appeal of a Zoning Determination - 1715 Lincoln Avenue, Appellant: Loewke Planning Associates, Inc. on behalf of Keystone Consulting. Public hearing to consider an appeal of the Planning Director's determination of the subject property's C-1, Neighborhood Business zoning on the Zoning Map and Neighborhood Business land use designation under the General Plan.
BACKGROUND
The Alameda Zoning Map was originally adopted in 1958, along with regulations in the Municipal Code that form the City's Zoning Regulations (AMC Chapter XXX). All rezoning of property in the City and amendments to the Zoning Map require City Council passage of an ordinance at the recommendation of the Planning Board. These actions by the City Council are documented, and a record of past amendments to the Zoning Map is available for reference.
In the mid-2000s, the City's Zoning Map was converted from a Mylar paper roll to digital form. In 2011, an error was discovered with the digital file Zoning designation for the subject property at 1715 Lincoln Avenue as part of a Zoning Compliance Determination requested for the property. The property was incorrectly depicted in the digital file as being zoned R-5, Garden Residential District, when the proper City Council adopted zoning for the property is C-1, Neighborhood Business District.
On April 28, 2011, the City issued a Zoning Compliance Determination that described the mapping errors and restated the correct Zoning and General Plan designation on record for the subject property (Exhibit 1). Although the 2011 Zoning Compliance Determinati...
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