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A.
The housing opportunity overlay zone (HOO) is established to facilitate the development of housing "by-right" on underutilized industrial sites. The HOO zone is intended to be applied to properties that are currently zoned heavy manufacturing (M-2) and permits discontinued manufacturing uses to recycle to residential development. The overlay zone is further intended to serve as an implementation tool of the city's housing element of the general plan by facilitating residential development on identified "housing opportunity sites."
B.
The HOO has the following major objectives:
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Create "by-right" opportunities for residential development on underutilized manufacturing sites.
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Implement state laws that require cities to demonstrate available land capacity and zoning tools to accommodate the city's projected need for housing.
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Provide a mix of housing types.
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Facilitate well-designed new mixed-use development projects that combine residential and nonresidential uses (e.g., office, retail, business services, personal services, public spaces and uses, other community amenities, etc.) to promote a better balance of jobs and housing.
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Stimulate economic development and reinvestment through regulations based upon recognized urban design principles that allow property owners to respond with flexibility to market forces.
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Provide additional property rights while preserving existing property rights. This intent is achieved by providing additional development rights in compliance with this chapter, which property owners may exercise under certain conditions, while retaining all development rights conferred by the underlying zone to property owners in the HOO zone. Incentives and advantages include allowing a greater range and mix of uses and specifying more permissive dimensional specifications (e.g., greater floor area ratio, lot coverage ratio, and height, reduced setbacks, etc.).
(Ord. No. 656, § 4 (Exh. A), 11-19-2013)