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Recommendation to Award Contract in the Amount of $256,292 to Cultivate Studio and Urban Planning Partners (UPP), Inc. to Prepare the Main Street Neighborhood Specific Plan for Alameda Point (AP). (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 Cultivate Studio and Urban Planning Partners, Inc. to Prepare the Main Street Neighborhood Specific Plan for Alameda Point
BACKGROUND
In November of 2014, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) awarded, through a competitive process, 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. The award of this grant is a direct result of Alameda Point being named a Priority Development Area (PDA) by MTC, a designation that was approved by City Council resolution on October 7, 2008. 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), which was approved by City Council on February 4, 2014. 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 densely or when to pursue any development within the Main Street Neighborhood. The document's focus and effect is restricted to determining the regulations under ...
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