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WITHDRAWN - Public Hearing to Consider Adoption of Resolution Amending the General Plan Residential and Business Park Land Use Classifications to Resolve Conflicting Language Between the Residential Density Standards in the Land Use Element with the Residential Density Standards Adopted in the Housing Element and Clarifying Business Park Development Standards. [The proposed amendments are categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3).] (Planning, Building & Transportation 481005)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: David L. Rudat, Interim City Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Every city and county in the State of California is required to adopt and maintain an up-to-date General Plan, which establishes the local development and conservation policies necessary to guide physical development and protect the general health, safety and welfare of the community. The General Plan should be an "integrated, internally consistent and compatible statement of policies for the adopting agency." (Gov. Code ?65300.5.)
The proposed General Plan text amendments resolve conflicting language between the 1991 Land Use Element and the 2014 Housing Element and clarify business park development standards to ensure consistency between land use policies within the Land Use Element. The proposed amendments were unanimously recommended by the Planning Board on November 13, 2018. Staff recommends that the City Council conduct a public hearing and approve the proposed amendments.
BACKGROUND
In 2012, after approximately two years of public workshops and extensive negotiations with the State of California Department of Housing and Community Development, the City Council adopted a comprehensive update to the General Plan Housing Element, General Plan Diagram, Zoning Map and Alameda Municipal Code (AMC) to bring the City of Alameda's General Plan and Zoning Ordinance into conforma...
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