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9C¡ REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager August28,2000 Subject REPORT 3 - Bair Island Road Study Area Interim Urgency Ordinance to enact a moratorium on all development in the Bair Island Study Area, and include an exception for development agreements. Develop a specific plan for this, and an adjacent area not subject to the moratorium. Recommendation 1. Introduce an Interim Urgency Ordinance imposing a moratorium on all development, with an exception for development agreements, in the Bair Island Study Area as shown on Exhibit A to the ordinance. (This does not include areas zoned residential.) 2. Direct staff to include additional parcels in the Bair Island Specific Plan not subject to the moratorium. Background On July 24, 2000, the City Council introduced (and on August 14, 2000 adopted) an Interim Urgency Ordinance placing a pause on development for a period of 45 days on all development in the Bair Island Study Area. In so doing, the City Council directed ,staff to: 1. provide additional detail including a schedule for preparation of a Specific Plan for the Bair Island Road area, 2. consider an exemption to the Bair Island Study Area Interim Urgency Ordinance in cases where the developer enters into a development agreement with the City, 3. move forward expeditiously with appropriate resources (staffing and consultants), and 4. schedule a joint study session with the Planning Commission, Housing and Human Concerns Comm~ttee and the Architectural Review Committee. Issues 1. Urqency Interim Ordinance The Urgency Interim Ordinance (Attachment 1) proposed for adoption would exclude projects subject to Development Agreement from the moratorium (see Attachment 2 for further detail regarding Development Agreements). Projects which could proceed are tenant improvements for existing uses and projects for which permits have been issued prior to adoption of the ordinance. Otherwise, the ordinance enacts a prohibition on all development in the Bair Island Road study area except areas zoned residential. Under the regulation no building permits, use permits, architectural permits, planned development permits, zoning variances, zoning permits, subdivisions, or any other land use entitlements will be issued or approved with respect to properties within the Study Area. Tenant improvements, in existing buildings will be allowed as long as the use doesn't change. The existing Urgency Interim Ordinance will lapse. ""......._- _.~.