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6.D. - Page 24 of 25 <br />GENERAL PLAN CONFORMANCE <br />The proposed zoning amendments would further the City's policies and programs that promote child care <br />across residential neighborhoods and employment areas. Child care impacts were examined in <br />combination with increased demands for public schools in the 2010 General Plan EIR. The increase in <br />development and population generated by the 2010 General Plan created additional demands for child <br />care services where a deficit of appropriate, affordable facilities to house additional child care programs <br />already existed. The 2010 General Plan includes policies and implementation programs that would <br />encourage the establishment of child care facilities in close proximity to employment centers in the plan <br />area to offset the anticipated impacts. Specific General Plan programs, goals, and policies are cited below: <br />Goal BC -10: Accommodate community needs for safe, high-quality, and affordable child care services and <br />facilities, both for Redwood City residents and people who work in Redwood City. <br />Policy BC -10.2: Integrate the child care needs of those who live and work in the city into the City's planning <br />processes. Locate child care services, where possible, in or near housing, transportation, and employment <br />centers so as to be convenient to residents and workers. <br />Program BC 34: Child Care Zoning. Ensure that Zoning Ordinance standards and permitting processes for <br />child care facilities facilitate their provision at appropriate locations throughout Redwood City. <br />• Consider Zoning Ordinance revisions to support the establishment of large family child care homes <br />and centers through a simplified, streamlined review process. <br />• Consider Zoning Ordinance changes that include performance standards for childcare centers <br />located in Commercial Office and Mixed -Use zoning districts, and in school, church and other <br />public/quasi-public buildings in residential zones to simplify the approval process for these <br />facilities. <br />• Explore updating the Zoning Ordinance provisions regarding small childcare centers (up to 24 <br />children) to be located in all residential zones. <br />The proposed updates are in keeping with the General Plan goals and policies related to child care. The <br />zoning amendments increase the number of viable locations and streamline the review process to reduce <br />barriers to child care. The proposed updates would allow large family child care homes by right in all <br />dwellings, which would increase child care in residential zoning districts. The proposed updates would <br />allow child care centers up to 60 children by -right in all commercial and mixed-use zoning districts and to <br />increase child care in employment centers. Locating child care in residential areas would help local <br />residents and locating child care in employment centers would help serve people who work in Redwood <br />City. Increasing the availability of child care and streamlining the review process is meant to result in more <br />affordable child care across the City. <br />FISCAL IMPACT <br />None <br />Page 5 of 6 <br />City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.ore <br />264 <br />