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ATTACHMENT # 2. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES DATED 7/20/99 PLANNING COMMISSION EXCERPTS 9/20/99 <tAl Proposal to amend Section 2.21-c-2 of the Redwood City Zoning Ordinance regarding notice and process requirements for Large Family Day Care Homes. Proposed Action: Hold public hearing and make recommendation to City Council. Chairman Verdone asked Mr. Passanisi who were the nine persons that received the notices. Mr. Passanisi said that, at the suggestion of the City's Child Care Coordinator, staff had contacted various child care organizations in the County and had put a notice in the paper. Mr. Passanisi said that in the last six months a sub-committee of the City Council1 has been meeting and had recommended changes to this section of the Zoning Ordinance. He said that currently the City requires what they called a non-discretionary permit to obtain for large family day care homes. This was done deliberately, to make the process of establishing such a child care facility as straightforward as possible. Non- discretionary permits are issued over the counter and approved as long as the applicant meets certain conditions. Mr. Passanisi said that the Council sub-committee is recommending that staff notify the surrounding neighbors of proposed. new large family day care homes, and that the Zoning Administrator hold a public hearing if there is opposition or when requested, in response to the notice. The Zoning Administrator must approve the project if it complies with the standards of traffic control, parking, spacing, concentration, noise, and fire requirements. Mr. Passanisi said that state law specifies that cities can only notify people within 100 feet of the proposed large family day care homes, as opposed to the City's normal practice of noticing out 300 feet. When questioned, the City Attorney clarified that the City could not be more restrictive than the State legislation. In this case, it meant that the City was bound to the one hundred foot notice limit. The sub-committee is also asking the Planning Commission to consider the possibility of spacing requirements. Mr. Passanisi said that some cities do require some distance between large family day care homes, on the premise that too many in anyone neighborhood could lead to impaction problems. Mr. Passanisi showed a slide of the locations of large family day care homes and indicated that applications under the proposed new procedures will take three to four weeks to process and the fee is proposed to be $100.00. 1 Consisting of the Mayor and counciJ members Ira and Leipzig. .._~"._.'."..'..-'.T'...