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Commission sends rezoning package for 27 nonconforming homes, ITR updates to city council
Summary
The Planning Commission recommended City Council adopt general plan, specific plan and zoning map amendments to align 27 legal nonconforming single‑ and two‑family homes with residential designations, add ITR/R3/PD overlays for select industrial parcels in East Sunnyvale, and amend zoning code language to prevent reconversion to industrial uses.
The Sunnyvale Planning Commission on Jan. 13 recommended that the City Council adopt ordinances and a resolution to amend the general plan, specific plans and zoning map to align zoning with long‑standing residential uses and to enable housing reuse of certain industrial sites.
Associate Planner Wendy Lau and Principal Planner Julia Klein presented staff’s proposal to reclassify 27 legal nonconforming single‑ and two‑family dwellings currently enveloped by nonresidential zoning (office, El Camino Real specific plan, Perry Park specific plan) to appropriate residential general plan land‑use categories (low or low‑medium density) with corresponding R0, R2 or R2/Office PD zoning. Staff said that change would allow…
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