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PLN22-0401 - 2800 Fifth Street - Master Plan/Development Plan Amendment - Applicant: Pulte Homes. Public Hearing to consider a recommendation to the City Council to adopt an amendment to the Alameda Landing Waterfront Mixed Use Master Plan and Bay 37 Development Plan to replace a requirement for a 5,000 sq. ft commercial retail building with other land uses at the terminus of Fifth Street. CEQA Determination: A Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report for the Alameda Landing Mixed Use Development Project was certified in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (State Clearinghouse #2006012091) in 2006.
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To: Honorable President and
Members of the Planning Board
From: Andrew Thomas, Planning, Building and Transportation Director
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Pulte Homes and the residents of the Alameda Landing waterfront residential development known as "Bay 37" are requesting an amendment to the 2017 Alameda Landing Waterfront Mixed Use Development Master Plan and Bay 37 Development Plan (together, "Proposed Amendment"). The Master Plan and Development Plan require development of a small 5,000 square foot commercial building at the entrance to Bohol Circle Immigrant Park. The applicants are requesting that the requirement be changed to allow for either housing, open space, or a combination of housing and open space or recreational uses.
A Master Plan Amendment can only be approved by the Alameda City Council. Therefore, the role of the City staff and the Planning Board is to make a recommendation on the merits of the Proposed Amendment to the City Council. This report describes five alternative scenarios for the site, and includes the residents' recommendation to the City Council and City staff's recommendation to the City Council. Staff is recommending that the Planning Board identify its preferred use of the site and recommendation to the City Council at this time.
Of the five alternatives described in this report,...
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