Reso24-05 0025 - PC Reso Adopt Amendments To The Zoning Code 2023 2031 Housing Element

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ATTY/RESO.0025/PC RESO ADOPT AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING CODE – 2023-2031 HOUSING ELEMENT – EXHIBIT A REV: 06-20-24 VR Page 50 of 158 32.4 - Floor Area Ratio (FAR) BonusReserved. Eligible projects may request an FAR bonus as described below: A. Open space for public use and enjoyment and/or outdoor recreational facilities for public use and enjoyment within commercial and/or industrial developments that contain at least fifty thousand (50,000) square feet of building gross floor area may be granted a floor area ratio bonus provided that the following conditions are met: 1. The maximum floor area ratio bonus associated with the provision of open space for public use and enjoyment and/or outdoor recreation facilities for public use and enjoyment shall not be greater than two (2) percent floor area ratio relative to the land area of the development; 2. A deed restriction shall be recorded on the property to ensure the long term use of the portion of the development for open space for public use and enjoyment and/or outdoor recreation facilities; 3. Any floor area ratio bonus granted pursuant to this subsection C of this Section may be awarded by the Planning Commission or the Zoning Administrator in conjunction with any permit issued pursuant to the Zoning Ordinance (No. 1130), as amended, based on the following findings: a) The open space and/or outdoor recreation facility will be of benefit to the public; b) The development design can accommodate the additional floor area. B. Commercial, industrial, or mixed use developments of at least fifty thousand (50,000) square feet may exclude child care centers that open to the public from their gross floor area for the purposes of calculating FAR as set forth in Article 39.5: FAR exemption for Child Care Centers. C. Developments may receive both the floor area ratio exemption of Article 39.5: FAR exemption for Child Care Centers, and the floor area ratio bonus of subsection A of this Section, but in no case will the total floor area ratio exemption and bonus exceed two (2) percent floor area ratio relative to the land area of a particular development. Editor's note— Ord. No. 1130-364, § 17(Exh. M), adopted Aug. 24, 2015, repealed § 32.4 which pertained to front yard modifications and derived from Ord. 1130, eff. 7-10-64; Ord. 1130.130, eff. 5-26-71; Ord. 1130.132, eff. 7-7-71; Ord. 1130.153, eff. 7-9-75; and Ord. 1130.273, eff. 11-15-90. 32.19 - Affordable Housing Density Bonuses. A. Purpose. To clarify the basic procedures, requirements, and functions of the State Density Bonus law as it is modified from time to time and to comply with Government Code Section 65915. B. Definitions. 1. "Affordable Housing Unit" means an ownership or rental dwelling unit affordable to households with extremely-low, very-low, low or moderate incomes as published periodically by the California Department of Housing and Community Development for households in San Mateo County or equivalent as approved by the Community Development Director. 2. "Base DensityUnits" means the maximum residential density, measured as the number of dwelling units per acre,at the project site allowed underby the zoning