Ordinance 3111CITY OF ALAMEDA ORDINANCE No. 3111
New Series
AMENDING CHAPTER 30 OF THE ALAMEDA MUNICIPAL CODE TO
ADDRESS COMMERCIAL RECREATIONAL USES, ARCADES,
GROUND FLOOR OFFICE USES, AND THE DEFINITION OF FAMILY.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Alameda:
Findings.
In enacting this Section, the City Council finds as follows:
1. The amendments maintain the integrity of the General Plan. The proposed
zoning text amendments are necessary to support General Plan policies
regarding economic development and fair housing. The zoning amendments
related to the definition of family also ensure consistency between the State of
California Government Code and the Alameda Municipal Code.
2. The amendments will support the general welfare of the community. The
proposed zoning text amendments will support the general welfare of the
community by establishing clear standards for a variety of business types and
support economic development objectives.
3. The amendments are equitable. The proposed zoning amendments are
equitable in that they establish appropriate processes and procedures for the
review of future development proposals.
4. California Environmental Quality Act. The proposed amendments are
categorically exempt under California Environmental Quality Act Section 15305 —
Minor Amendments to Land Use Limitations.
Section 1. Section 30-2 Definitions shall be amended to:
Revise the definition of "family" as follows:
Family: Family shall be defined as "One or more persons, related or unrelated,
such as a group of employees, living together in a dwelling unit, with common
access to, and common use of all living, kitchen, and eating areas within the
dwelling unit."
Add a definition of "commercial recreation" to read as follows:
"Commercial Recreation includes recreational uses such as skating rinks,
bowling alleys, arcades, paintball, children's playland, rock climbing, miniature
golf and other similar establishments of an entertainment or amusement nature
that are conducted within a building for commercial purposes."
Section 2. Section 30-10 Game Machines shall be deleted.
Section 3. Section 30-4.6 R-6 Hotel Residential District, subsection c. Uses Requiring
Use Permits shall be amended to include new subsection: "3. Commercial Recreation."
Section 4. Section 30-4.8 C-1 Neighborhood Business District, subsection c. Uses
Requiring Use Permits shall be amended to include new subsection: "4(k). Commercial
Recreation."
Section 5. Section 30-4.9 C-2 Central Business District, subsection c. Uses Requiring
Use Permits — "12. Reserved." shall be amended to: "12. Commercial Recreation."
Section 6. Section 30-4.9A C-C Community Commercial District, subsection c.1 Uses
Requiring Use Permits shall be amended to include new subsection: "(ss). Commercial
Recreation."
Section 7. Section 30-4.25 North Park Street District, subsection e. Use Regulations,
Table B: Allowed Land Uses, shall be amended to include Commercial Recreation as a
conditional use in the Gateway District and Workplace District and prohibited in the
Residential, Mixed Use, and Maritime Manufacturing subdistricts.
Section 8. Section 30-4.9A C-C Community Commercial District, subsection b.1 Uses
Permitted, subsection (mm), shall be amended to read as follows:
"Office uses, provided that such use shall not occupy the front fifty (50%) percent
of the ground floor space directly fronting a public street, alley or sidewalk, which
shall be reserved for retail sales and/or service uses permitted in the district.
Parcels that have a frontage on Santa Clara Avenue and are located between
Park Avenue and Broadway may have office uses occupying the entire ground
floor space."
Subsection c.1 Uses Requiring Use Permits, subsection (dd), shall be amended to read
as follows:
"Office uses not associated with a permitted or conditional use in this district
and/or occupying the front fifty (50%) percent of the ground floor space directly
fronting a public street, alley or sidewalk,"
Section 9. Severability Clause. It is the declared intent of the City Council of Alameda
that if any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or provision of this ordinance
is held invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or
unconstitutionality shall not be so construed as to render invalid or unconstitutional the
remaining provision of this ordinance.
Section 10. This ordinance and the rules, regulations, provisions, requirements, orders,
and matters established and adopted hereby shall take effect and be in full force and
effect from and after the expiration of thirty (30) days from the date of its final passage.
Attest:
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Lara Weisiger, City di
Presiding Officer of the City Council
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly and
regularly adopted and passed by Council of the City of Alameda in regular meeting
assembled on the 7th day of October 2014, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Chen, Daysog, Ezzy Ashcraft, Tam and
Mayor Gilmore — 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official
seal of said City this 8th day of October, 2014.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Jp/det C. Kern
City Attorney
Lara Weisiger, City erk
City of Alameda