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<br /> 6A <br /> Page 28 <br /> Main Street. First we need to see if there is interest in the City Council and then have a <br /> study session. <br /> MIS (Codding/Radcliffe) Proposed that the Planning Commission recommend, based on <br /> the presentations and discussions here this evening, the need for housing in Redwood <br /> City and the number of units that could be built at this location and the proximaty of the <br /> downtown that the Planning Commission recommend to the City Council to initiate a <br /> General Plan Amendment from the existing General Plan land use designation of <br /> "Commercial - Office Park" to "Heavy Commercial. Mixed Use" for the property located <br /> at 333 Main Street; and <br /> Planning Commission recommend that the City Council initiate a Zoning Map <br /> Amendment form the existing "Industrial Park" (IP) Zoning District to the "General <br /> Commercial - Combined Residential" (CG-G) Zoning District for property located at 333 <br /> Main Street. <br /> Motion Passed 4-2 (for: SeybertlRadcliffe/Cronin/Codding) <br /> (against: Gee/Paulson) <br /> Commissioner Gee stated that he does not support the motion because he is opposed to <br /> spot zoning and that this needs further study in a broader context. <br /> Commissioner Paulson sees the area changing in the future, but at this point defers to <br /> what is in the staff report that states "in order to contemplate a land use change that <br /> includes housing, the area needs significant consideration as a whole, and it should be a <br /> result of policy in the General Plan update." <br /> Commissioner Cronin stated that his preference would be to look at this in a bigger <br /> context and is also sensitive to spot zoning and does not think it is the way that the city <br /> should conduct business normally. Preference would be to have resources and the time <br /> to look at the whole section of this area and not just this particular property, but this may <br /> be a good alternative. <br /> Commissioner Radcliffe is also not in favor of spot zoning and agreed that this is a way <br /> to get things started and think that the whole area needs to be looked at and not just this <br /> one piece of property. <br /> Chair Seybert stated it is important to use the term spot zoning carefully and will support <br /> this recommendation because it is not spot zoning and believes it is a catalyst for what <br /> will happen around it . - <br /> - <br /> MATTERS OF COMMISSION INTEREST <br /> ~ General Plan Update <br /> eneral Plan Subcommittee will be spending time revisiting the Guiding <br /> Princl early May, 2006 and May 16 will be the next step with the <br /> visioning proc <br /> ~ Subcommittee Appointme <br /> Staff would like one of the Plann ommissioners to sit on a five person <br /> subcommittee to interview and recom etai! vendors for Courthouse <br /> Square. The Committee will be meeting In ne for several days to <br /> review the applications and would like that the subco be made up of <br /> a Council member and a Planning Commissioner. <br /> Page 9 of 10 <br />