San Leandro, CA Zoning Overlays & Bonuses: Downtown Design Guide (2026)

San Leandro's Zoning Code sets one standard property development table for its commercial and professional districts, then layers a design-guideline overlay on top of it for downtown parcels. 300 states that development in the DA-1, DA-2, DA-3, DA-4, and DA-6 Districts "shall be consistent with the provisions contained in the Design Guidelines in the Downtown San Leandro Transit-Oriented Development Strategy," a separate adopted planning document, while SA-1 through SA-3 parcels answer instead to the East 14th Street South Area Development Strategy and NA-1/NA-2 parcels to the North Area Specific Plan.

C makes them binding setback law for the DA districts. Front setbacks "shall be consistent with the street sections, including sidewalks, of the applicable street type" the Strategy assigns to each downtown block, ground-floor residential units must sit back ten to fifteen feet from the property line, and any DA-district parcel fronting East 14th Street carries a minimum seven-foot front setback built specifically to create a minimum fifteen-foot wide pedestrian zone. Because the base yard table already lists DA-1 through DA-6 setbacks as "Varies," it is the Strategy document, not a fixed number in the code, that fixes the actual required distance for any given downtown site. 04, and the Zoning Enforcement Official checks plans against it rather than against a single citywide setback figure.