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Planning Board Workshop on Alameda Point Site A Design Review for Block 8 Affordable Housing
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To: President and
Members of the Planning Board
From: Jennifer Ott, Chief Operating Officer - Alameda Point
Andrew Thomas, Assistant Community Development Director
Date: January 11, 2016
BACKGROUND
In June 2015, the City Council unanimously approved the "Site A" Development Plan for a 68-acre area within Alameda Point that extends generally from the Main Street entrance to Alameda Point to the Seaplane Lagoon and the eastern edge of the Naval Air Station Alameda Historic District (Historic District). The Site A Development Plan (shown below) stipulates that the project will:
* Include 200 affordable housing units and 600 market rate units; and
* 128 of the 200 affordable units will be reserved for very low and low income households to be constructed on "Block 8" (outlined in red below) at the corner of Ralph Appezzato Memorial Parkway (RAMP) and Orion Street.
Since the City Council action on the Development Plan, the project proponents, Alameda Point Partners (APP) and Eden Housing, an experienced nonprofit affordable housing developer and provider, have been working with their design consultants, KGTY Architects, to prepare detailed designs for the 128 affordable housing units to be constructed on Block 8.
On December 17, 2015, the APP Team provided an initial design for Block 8 for Planning Board Subcommittee (Subcommittee) review. In addition, the APP team informed the staff and the Subcommittee that they would like to prioritize the review of this block by the Alameda community and the full Planning Board in an effort to meet an annual State funding deadline for "cap and trade" funding for qualified affordable housing projects in mid-February, 2016
Given the State funding deadlines, the Subcommittee and staff decided to release the initial "work in-progress" drawings for i...
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