Ordinance amending the Planning Code to require Conditional Use authorization for the removal of any residential unit in a C-3 (Downtown Commercial) District (whether legal or illegal) and to require compliance Citywide with landscaping and permeable surfaces requirements for building additions and residential mergers, and to exempt from the Conditional Use application requirement illegal units in C-3 Districts where there is no legal path for legalization and residential units that have received prior Planning approval; amending the Building Code to require that notices of violation in a C-3 District order the filing of an application to legalize an illegal unit unless infeasible under the Building Code or the Planning Commission approves its removal, and to require re-issuance of unabated notices of violation in a C-3 District to include the new requirement; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; and making findings of consistency with the General Plan, Planning Code, Section 302, and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1.

Committee

Clerk of the Board

Introduced

January 26, 2016

Passed

March 4, 2016

Enactment no.

023-16

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