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8.B. - Page 41 of 43 S. Organizational Changes - Organizational changes, including consolidating definitions, moving sections has occurred to make the zoning ordinance easier to use. General Plan Policies and Implementation Programs The General Plan (GP) Environmental Impact Report (EIR) identified that the impacts of increases in development and population generated by the General Plan would create additional demands on public services, including child care services, where a deficit of appropriate affordable facilities to house additional child care and early education programs already existed (Impact 4.12-3). The General Plan includes policies and implementation programs that would encourage the establishment of child care facilities in close proximity to employment centers to offset the impacts of new development. See cited General Plan goals, policies, and programs below: GP Policy BC -10.2 Integrate the child care needs of those who live and work in the City into the City's planning processes. Locate child care services, where possible, in or near housing, transportation, and employment centers so as to be convenient to residents and workers. GP Policy BE -17.3: Encourage and facilitate the establishment of child-care facilities in proximity to large employment areas such as Downtown, south Broadway, Redwood Shores, the Kaiser and Sequoia Hospital areas, and near high-density residential areas and transit nodes GP Policy BE -34.4: Encourage adequate child care capacity to support the city's local workforce. GP Implementation Program BC -34: Child Care Zoning. Ensure that Zoning Ordinance standards and permitting processes for child care facilities facilitate their provision to appropriate locations throughout Redwood City. • Consider Zoning Ordinance Revisions to support the establishment of large family child care homes and centers through a simplified, streamlined review process. • Consider Zoning Ordinance changes that include performance standards for child care centers located in Commercial Office and Mixed Use zoning districts, and in school, church and other public/quasi-public buildings in residential zones to simplify the approval process for these facilities. • Explore updating the Zoning Ordinance provisions regarding small child care centers (up to 24 children) to be located in all residential zones. Anal The General Plan created policies and implementation programs that speak specifically to the proposed Zoning Ordinance changes including the following: • Allowing large family child care homes by right (Program BC -34), • Remove Use Permit requirement for child care centers in conjunction with churches and schools in low density residential districts (Program BC -34). Page 2 of 4 430