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Recommendation to Accept the 2025 Annual Reports on the Alameda 2040 General Plan/Housing Element, Transportation Choices Plan, Vision Zero Action Plan, Climate Action and Resiliency Plan, and Climate Adaptation and Hazard Mitigation Plan. CEQA Determination: Acceptance of the annual reports is statutorily exempt from environmental review pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3).
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To: President Cisneros and Members of the Planning Board
From: Allen Tai, Planning, Building & Transportation Director
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report addresses the annual reports on the General Plan / Housing Element (2022), Active Transportation Plan (2022), Vision Zero Action Plan (2021), Transportation Choices Plan (2018), Climate Action and Resiliency Plan (2025), and Climate Adaptation and Hazard Mitigation Plan (2023).
These documents show City progress towards its goals as well as priority actions for the coming year. The plans require the preparation of annual reports to City Council as well as the Planning Board or Transportation Commission each year. These documents serve as the annual report for all these plans.
Staff provides these annual reports early in the spring of each year so that the community and City Council can use the annual reports to inform citywide budget and Capital Improvement Program decisions.
BACKGROUND
Every city and county in the State of California is required to adopt and maintain an up-to-date General Plan, which establishes the local development and conservation policies necessary to guide physical development and protect the general health, safety and welfare of the community. The General Plan should be an "integrated, internally consistent and compatible statement of policies for the adopting agency." (Gov. Code, ? 65300.5.) Government Code section 65400 et seq. requires that the City of Alameda (City) annually review the adequacy of the General Plan and progress made toward meeting the City's regional housing ne...
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