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Um welcome everybody to the zoning update committee.

And um call the meeting to order.

And uh the chair wants to go ahead and speak.

Thank you.

Welcome to the October 22nd zoning update committee meeting.

Uh could the secretary please call roll.

Chair or Commissioner Sandoval.

Here.

Chair Aaron.

Here.

All right.

Moving on to um committee matters.

I think we have no items.

So moving on to agenda discussion.

I believe we also have no items.

So moving on to open forum.

We have one speaker, um, Mav or Maeve.

I'm sorry if I pronounced that incorrectly.

You have two minutes to speak on this one, and then you'll have two minutes for the other one when we get to that one.

You're welcome.

Hi, everybody.

I'm Maven Carter Griffin, and I'm the co-founder and uh records creative director of the Wood Street People's Collective that previous to 2020, we had been the thing for a model of how to deal with curbside community.

And we were very clean and we had policies and programs, we threw a rave for fundraising, and we're all just individual local residents of that area.

Um it befell a lot of congestion.

Um the city gave us a lot of people, and we went up to 300 people very quickly, and then there was the break from COVID, and there was nobody that we can communicate with to keep it under control.

Um, what I'd like to say is that somehow in planning, it would be good to consider how to regulate the curbs.

And I have a couple ideas about that.

Part of it is grading, going up and making a grade, giving people individual uh signs or stickers or permits, you know, that would be on their structure.

And then if they are following a certain pattern of uh, you know, cleanliness and organized appearance, something that's beautiful and attractive, then there's not that much of an issue.

Um we availed ourselves to the businesses in the area and would work for people.

If you had a problem, we would fix it.

If there was garbage in front of your place, we'd clean it up, we would organize the garbage piles that would come around.

But uh, fortunately, our reputation right now is crap, excuse me.

But uh I'm still unhoused, and I don't mind as long as I'm working with people and and bringing my knowledge and experience to a common ground for us all to become equal.

And uh there's not a lot of equality, and I think that the reason why unhoused people are so sloppy and kind of lazy-fair about the way they deal with stuff is because they have no hope.

And we did have hope for campus where we would be certified to be at the curb.

And that's what I would like to bring to table, and also we could use permits.

You know, you could get a permit to stay in an area, and you have to live up to a certain standard while you're radically self-sheltering and being independent.

Because the shelters are very dangerous and they're not very um friendly.

So thank you.

We have no more speakers.

Thank you.

Um, could staff follow up with the speaker for a way to for uh comments to be responded to after the meeting.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Okay, moving on to new business, our one item.

Thank you.

Alright, hello everyone.

I'm Timothy Green.

I'm a planner three in the Strategic Planning Division.

Today's staff are proposing a planning code amendment package to alter conditional use permit requirements or CUP requirements as we call them.

So today I'll give a brief project overview.

I'll discuss key themes addressed by the proposed amendments, and I'll provide staff's recommendation.

So the CUP approval process is often lengthy and expensive and affords a high level of discretion to city decision makers.

This can inhibit the opening of small and neighborhood serving businesses, which can result in less vibrant commercial districts and reduce tax revenues.

Additionally, it hampers the implementation of parks improvements and maintenance by the city itself.

Mayor Lee has established a permit reform initiative included as part of her 10-point plan for Oakland, from which this proposal was initiated.

The primary focus of these amendments is to reduce the number of activities subject to the CUP procedure, thus allowing these uses to be permitted outright or outright or with a reduced CUP requirements.

The zoning amendments in the Broadway Valdez district adopted in May served as a pilot for this project, and now we're expanding this effort citywide.