Alviso Master Plan
Light Industrial: allows a wide variety of industrial uses, excluding any uses with unmitigated hazardous or nuisance effects. Examples of typical uses are warehousing, wholesaling, light manufacturing, and industrial supplier/service businesses (i.e., businesses which provide needed services or supplies to other businesses).
Only low intensity uses (i.e., those with low employment densities) are allowed in the Light Industrial area located near Coyote Creek. Appropriate screening and landscaping is required in both light industrial areas. Landscaping and screening along State Street should create a more compatible edge with the adjacent residential neighborhood, and along Route 237, it would protect views of Alviso from the freeway. Uses adjacent to the marshland and Coyote Creek need to be environmentally sensitive by minimizing both point and non-point source pollution and other potential negative impacts.
Retail Overlay: This designation encourages retail and restaurant uses in addition to or instead of residential uses along the northeasterly side of North First Street. The intent of the Overlay is to foster pedestrian activity, create an opportunity for community interaction, and provide needed services. New retail, restaurant, and/or mixed use development would reflect the existing mixed residential and retail character of the street. The overlay extends to a depth of approximately 100 feet from the front property line.
Public/Quasi-Public: This designation identifies public land uses such as libraries, community centers. schools, fire stations, post offices, and the Water Pollution Control Plant and its buffer lands. Lands used by particular private institutions are also designated Public/Quasi-Public, such as churches and the Alviso Family Health Clinic.
Public Park/Open Space: This designation is applied to existing City and County parks, the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, trail corridors along the Guadalupe River, a PG&E easement, and on a wetland mitigation area located adjacent to Route 237.
Active and passive recreation activities, as well as libraries, community centers, and other similar public facilities, are suitable within this designation. These lands are owned by public agencies, although facilities and activities developed and operated wholly or partially by concessionaires and other private entities are also appropriate under this designation.
Private Open Space: This designation is applied to privately owned lands for low intensity, open space activity. On properties outside the Urban Service Area, Private Open Space is applied to the Cargill Salt ponds Within the Urban Service Area, this designation is found on private vacant land north of Los Esteros Road.
Solid Waste Landfill Overlay: This overlay designation is applied to currently operating landfills at Newby Island, Zanker Road, and Owens Corning. Landfill facilities may be either public or private enterprises, and may include related or ancillary activities such as recycling, resource recovery, and composting. The underlying designation of Private Open Space is compatible with the Solid Waste Landfill Overlay.
