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7ð- /ð ~ Grandfathered Facilities in Industrial Districts 0 Clean-up provision (unrelated to stormwater) to provide consistency with Article 33 0 Applies in IR, IP, and GI districts 0 3 sections of code in industrial districts ~ Recommendation 0 Recommend City Council adoption of the revised provisions of the Zoning Ordinance. Provided memo with a couple of changes: One of the changes is to add a sentence to one section of the code that deals with sensitive areas and to assure that the City' Engineering Department has the ability to make some additional requirements in sensitive areas which are defined as those in particular proximity to water ways. That includes creeks, lagoons and the bay itself. The second is a section of the code that deals with applicability when you add 5,000 square feet or more of impervious cover, create new impervious cover, or replace old impervious cover, that number should be 10,000 square feet, it is based on the stormwater regulations which have been one acre of disturbance coming down to 10,000 square feet. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS Commissioner Paulson asked how you can have a tidal plain zoning if you can cover it up with 60% impermeable surface. How is it still a tidal plain? Planning Consultant Williams replied that article 20 allows certain kinds of development, even though it is a tidal plain zone, it allows things like parking lots, garages, and stables, offices necessary to conduct of principal use, some living quarters. As conditional uses it allows commercial recreation facilities, outdoor theaters, and swimming pools. Unless staff is going to change these and take all these uses away, we need to provide some flexibility to accommodate them and still have a reasonable amount of coverage. Commissioner Paulson asked what the parking reductions were based on. Is it solely upon meeting our stormwater requirements or is there another basis. Mr. Williams replied that parking reductions are based primarily on having discussions with Downtown Development Coordinator Dan Zack and what was happening with the Downtown parking situation. It was staff's feeling that some of the rational for reducing the requirements Downtown also apply, not to the same degree, to some extent along EI Camino and Woodside Road where there was bus service and shopping facilities. The reductions in the Multi-family were very minimal as far as along EI Camino and Woodside Road, but staff felt like that is not as far as the Downtown multi-family is going to go in terms of reductions. Chair Paulson stated that she believes it would not be correct for the agenda to say stormwater and does not say anything about parking. Someone needs to read the agenda and know that staff will also be changing the parking rates. Commissioner Gee asked if there is much more than just stormwater and he would not like to see this Commission and the Council criticized for not being up front with all the changes being made. He asked how this is being integrated and what the cumulative connections/impacts are. Mr. Williams stated that staff looked at several different types of sites and what the impact would be. Generally on typical sites, multi-family, commercial sites, and industrial sites, there did not seem to be a significant reduction in the develop ability of those properties. Staff also recognized that there are some sites that include a creek and have some permeable surface issues. That is why staff felt it Page 7 of 9