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Recommendation to Award Contract in the Amount of $256,292 to Urban Planning Partners, Inc. to Prepare the Main Street Neighborhood Specific Plan for Alameda Point. (Base Reuse 819099)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: John A. Russo, City Manager
Re: Recommendation to award contract in the amount of $256,292 to Urban Planning Partners, Inc. to prepare the Main Street Neighborhood Specific Plan for Alameda Point
BACKGROUND
In November of 2014, after a competitive selection process, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) awarded a grant of $250,000 to the City of Alameda to prepare the Main Street Neighborhood Specific Plan (Specific Plan) for a 100-acre area (Exhibit 1) at the former Naval Air Station Alameda, commonly known as Alameda Point. A specific plan for the Main Street Neighborhood must be prepared and approved before new development can occur in the Main Street Neighborhood Sub-district, as required by the Alameda Point Zoning District (Alameda Municipal Code 30-4.24). A detailed specific plan was also required for the Waterfront Town Center sub-district, which was adopted by the City Council in July 2014 (Town Center Plan). As with the Town Center Plan, the proposed Specific Plan would lay out the development guidelines and regulations for future development within the Main Street Neighborhood. The Specific Plan does not commit the City to developing the area, nor does it diminish the City's absolute authority as landowner to decide how and when to pursue any development within the Main Street Neighborhood in the future. It merely determines the regulations under which future development could occur.
Over the last several years, the City engaged in a robust community outreach and participation process in drafting multiple documents that outline the community's vision for the mixed-use and transit-oriented development of Alameda Point. These documents, which were approved last year, incl...
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