A. General.
1. When established in 1994, the Del Paso Boulevard SPD area consisted of C-2 zoned properties located along Del Paso Boulevard, between approximately Globe Avenue and El Camino Avenue. In 1997, the SPD boundary was expanded and M-1 zoning standards were adopted. In 2010, the SPD boundary was expanded to include the portion of Arden Way between Del Paso Boulevard and Beaumont Street and the SPD was renamed the Del Paso Boulevard/Arden Way Special Planning District ("Del Paso Boulevard/Arden Way SPD").
2. The Del Paso Boulevard/Arden Way SPD consists of a number of different neighborhoods that include residential uses, light industrial uses, and commercial uses. The SPD zoning regulations are intended to assist in the preservation of the economic climate in these neighborhoods through the retention of existing businesses while accommodating new development.
B. Goals. The general goals for properties within the Del Paso Boulevard/Arden Way SPD are as follows:
1. Maintain and improve the character, quality, and vitality of this unique commercial neighborhood, drawing on the opportunities for an arts and entertainment orientation;
2. Provide the opportunity for a balanced mixture of uses in neighborhoods adjacent to transit facilities and transportation corridors;
3. Maintain the neighborhood stability of existing commercial neighborhoods while allowing existing nonconforming uses to continue to serve the community needs in this area;
4. Retain and improve economic vitality of this commercial neighborhood;
5. Provide the opportunity for reuse and rehabilitation of heavy commercial and industrial uses to take advantage of the light rail facilities in the area, thereby reducing the number of obsolete and underutilized buildings and sites;
6. Promote land use characteristics for M-1 and C-2 properties that consider the neighborhood changes that resulted from the westerly extension of Arden Way across the Natomas East Main Drainage Canal;
7. Promote orderly transition of land uses from underutilized buildings and sites to new commercial and industrial uses; and
8. Discourage outdoor storage in the SPD by limiting stored materials to those that are incidental to primary business uses in the M-1 and C-2 zones and enforcing minimum standards for outdoor storage of materials and products. By discouraging outdoor storage, the city can reverse the adverse aesthetic conditions. (Ord. 2013-0020 § 1; Ord. 2013-0007 § 1)