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Page 9 of 17 <br />City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.org <br />residents in market-rate housing developments. The proposed amendment to Article 30.5 <br />would eliminate parking requirements for group homes and clarify that no parking is <br />required for low-barrier navigation centers, thereby order to facilitating housing <br />development serving populations in need. <br />The reduction or elimination of parking requirements does not prevent project developers from <br />constructing parking above the minimum required standard. <br />4.Program H4-6: Permit Processing and Program H4-9: Housing Accountability Act – See <br />“Development Streamlining” section (subsections 1 and 2) above and the “General Plan <br />Conformance” section below for information on proposed Amendments that would implement <br />Housing Element Programs H4-6 and H4-9. <br />Code Maintenance <br />The code maintenance effort involves updates to multiple code sections and topics and generally includes <br />clarifications of existing City policy or processes as well as amendments to ensure consistency with State <br />law. Staff consider all the amendments to be minor in scope and impact, and those that are more clerical <br />in nature (e.g. correction of typographical errors, removal of outdated content, organizational <br />modifications, etc.) are described in Attachment D rather than in the body of this staff report. The code <br />maintenance amendments fall under several subcategories: <br />1.Definitions – Article 2 of the Zoning Code is where most technical or specialized terms used in the rest <br />of the Code are defined. The proposed amendments in Article 2 are intended to revise existing <br />definitions with minor clarifications, create new definitions for key terms, and remove outdated <br />definitions. For more information on term-specific updates, see Attachment D. <br />a.Research and Development Land Uses – In Article 2 (Definitions), the Research and <br />Development Land Use Types (Office and Lab) have been refreshed using modern <br />terminology to further clarify uses, including prototype manufacturing, which is allowed <br />within each land use type. The goal of these amendments is to clarify what is permitted <br />and foster re-tenanting of vacant or under-utilized property to improve economic <br />development opportunities. <br />2.Land Use – The proposed amendments would make minor updates to existing permitted and <br />conditionally permitted uses and remove outdated land uses; these minor land use updates are <br />summarized in Attachment D. Additionally, the proposed amendments would create a new land use <br />designation for “Food Preparation.” This is a new designation that includes uses such as catering, <br />production bakeries, and commissary kitchens. The proposed amendment would respond to <br />increased community interest by creating a definition for “Food Preparation” in Article 2 and by <br />permitting Food Preparation by right in industrial areas and the mixed-use transitional district (MUT), <br />which allows some light industrial uses. <br />3.Zoning Change from MUW to CG-R – As a program of the 2023-2031 Housing Element, several parcels <br />in Redwood City were rezoned to facilitate housing production. Two of the parcels (APNs 095-030- <br />410 and 095-030-420) are narrow and constrained by PG&E overhead transmission lines. The <br />8.B. - Page 9 of 212 <br />324