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Consider Adoption of Resolution Supporting Caltrans Interstate 580 Truck Access Study and State Legislation to Enable Fair Use of East Bay Freeways, including Directing Staff to Work with Study Partners to Expand the Project Study Area to Include Impacted Parts of Alameda. (Councilmember Jensen)
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The Council can take any of the following actions:
1) Take no action.
2) Refer the matter to staff to schedule as a future City Council agenda item. Concurrence that staff time will be devoted to the item does not signify approval.
3) Take dispositive action only on time sensitive legislative matters if sufficiently noticed such that the public and Council have been provided with sufficient information by the published agenda, and no formal published notice of a public hearing is required.
Name of Councilmember(s) requesting referral: Councilmember Jensen
Date of submission to City Clerk (must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday two weeks before the Council meeting requested): 11/17/25
Council Meeting date: 12/2/25
Brief description of the subject to be printed on the agenda, sufficient to inform the City Council and public of the nature of the referral:
This referral addresses regional actions to evaluate the ramifications of the historic ban on trucks over 4.5 tons on I-580 between Grand Avenue in Oakland and Foothill Boulevard in Hayward. Recently Caltrans partnered with the City of Oakland and the Bay Area Air District to evaluate how removing the existing truck weight restriction on I-580, commonly referred to as the I-580 truck ban, would affect safety, reliability, and efficiency along the I-880 and I-580 corridors. This Resolution outlines the City of Alameda support for the I 580 Truck Access Study and directs staff to work with study partners to expand the project study area to include all impacted parts of Alameda.
The City Council approved a Strategic Plan on November 21, 2023, which established the following 5 priorities:
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