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7.B. - Page 4 • Article 30 — Off-Street Parking and Loading. This section would be revised to add live/work parking requirements, to clarify clean air vehicle requirements, and to address emergency shelters. • Article 31 — Special Provisions. This section would be amended to clarify that, nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, and similar establishments are to be considered commercial uses for the purposes of calculating floor area ratio (FAR), and that they shall not be subject to residential density limits. • Article 53 — Mixed Use Corridor. This section would be amended to clarify restrictions on massage establishments and to be consistent with building code requirements for live/work units. Senate Bill 2 — Emergency Shelter Zones The Emergency Shelter Combining District is in response to the State of California's Senate Bill 2 (SB 2). With the adoption of SB 2, housing element law now requires the identification of a zone(s) where emergency shelters are permitted without a conditional use permit or other discretionary action. On May 7, 2008 the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) issued a memorandum (Attachment 1), which included a briefing paper informing local governments of SB 2, providing assistance in evaluating these new provisions to effectively implement the State law. Electronic copies of these documents can be found at HCD's website www.hcd.ca.qov. Pages 8 through 11, of the briefing paper discuss "Identifying Zoning for Emergency Shelters", "Permitting Emergency Shelters without Discretionary Action", and "Development Standards to Encourage and Facilitate Emergency Shelters". Government Code Section 65583(a)(7), requires an identification and analysis of the needs of homeless persons and families. Furthermore, Government Code Section 65583(a)(4)(A), requires the identification of a zone or zones where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted use without a conditional use or other discretionary permit. The emergency shelter zones must include sufficient capacity to accommodate the needs of homeless persons and families. Per Government Code Section 65583(a)(4)(A), if the City cannot identify a zone or zones with sufficient capacity, the City must include a program in its Housing Element to amend its zoning ordinance to meet these requirements. Redwood City did this under Program H-13. Emergency shelters may only be subject to those development and management standards that apply to residential or commercial development within the same zone except that the City may apply written, objective standards specifically set forth under the law. Attached as Attachment 2 is a copy of Government Code Section 65583(a)(4)(A) and 65583(a)(7) for the Council's review. The recommended Emergency Shelter Combining District boundaries in Exhibit L to the attached Zoning Ordinance Amendment resolution would create about 53 acres within Redwood City in which emergency shelters are allowed by right, in the Light Industrial Incubator Zoning District and part of the Mixed-Use Live/Work Zoning District. This is greater than the 12 acres identified in the General Plan as the minimum necessary. Attachment 5 represents an alternative configuration for the Council's consideration