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permitted uses. Subarea 1, for example, includes much of the area along First Street in Livermore, and allows retail sales (including specialty food retail, specialty goods retail, quality goods retail), business services (such as office supply or photocopy shops, or other businesses that generate a significant amount of foot traffic), restaurants, and financial institutions as permitted uses on the ground floor. In this subarea, offices, health clubs, residential uses, and personal services are permitted on the upper floors. - In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Town of Los Gatos is currently suspending the requirement for personal service businesses to obtain a Conditional Use Permit, as long as the business enters into an Economy Recovery Agreement with the Town. - The City of Concord recently updated its Downtown Pedestrian zoning related to "bank and credit union" and "personal service" uses on the ground floor, such that these uses not cumulatively occupy more than 20% of any street frontage properties directly facing Todos Santos Plaza. This update was followed by a second update where certain uses, including fitness, health clubs, office uses, and others, would be allowed to be located facing Todos Santos Plaza, as long as they met the 20% limitation and are approved though an Administrative Permit. These types of uses not facing Todos Santos Plaza would be permitted by right. - The City of San Rafael this month adopted a Downtown Precise Plan which preserved prior restrictions on ground floor office uses. The restrictions indicate that office uses are not allowed on the ground floor within 30 feet of the sidewalk without Use Permit approval; and that office uses are permitted by right on the ground floor along side streets if they are at least 15 feet from the front of the lot. Multi-use Tenant Spaces 1. How will staff verify the percentage of tenant space being used for an active use versus a non-active use? Staff would verify this information through requirement to provide a combination a dimensioned floor plan, along with a detailed narrative from the business owner. 2. How will staff monitor multi-use tenant spaces? What happens if the proportion of an active use changes due to, for example, business changes? The City does not have the staff resources to conduct regular inspections or monitor business operations, and so any modification that makes a business out of compliance would be on a complaint basis. Page 2 of 5