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UC-E District Multi-Suite Residential text amendment

Description

A zoning text amendment adding a new subsection to allow multi-suite residential housing in the UC-E district along a former lab-zoned stretch of Oakland.

Impact summary

Opens part of Oakland to apartment-style housing at a time when the neighborhood's housing shortage is spreading to other parts of the city.

Applicant

Address: Oakland (border of Districts 7, 8 and 3)

At a glance

Hearings: 1
Public comments: 0
Total mentions: 1

Last vote

Recommended approval

A recommendation, not a final decision. The council decides next.

Discussed at 1 meeting in the last 60 days; most recently Nov 10, 2026.

Meeting timeline (1)

Nov 10, 2026Recommended approval

Standing Committees — November 10, 2026

A zoning text amendment adding a new subsection to allow multi-suite residential housing in the UC-E district along a former lab-zoned stretch of Oakland.

Related issues (1)

Oakland UC-E Zoning Code Amendment

Bill 714 would let housing fill 50–100% of buildings on UC-E parcels within 100 feet of Oakland's hospitals and universities, as long as rooms are rented monthly or longer. Supporters see needed housing near campus; critics say it erodes space reserved for jobs and commercial development in the Forbes–Fifth corridor.

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