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Adoption of Resolution Approving the Final Map and Accepting the Dedications and Easements for Tract 8337. (Oakland Inner Harbor Tidal Canal). (Public Works 310)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jill Keimach, City Manager
Re: Adoption of Resolution Approving the Final Map and Accept the Dedications and Easements for Tract 8337 (Oakland Inner Harbor Tidal Canal).
BACKGROUND
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) desires to transfer the Alameda-side of the Oakland Inner Harbor Tidal Canal (Tidal Canal) to the City of Alameda. It has agreed to take all steps necessary to effect the transfer, including filing a tentative map application under the Subdivision Map Act (CA Gov. Code ??66410-66413.5) prior to transfer to facilitate the subsequent transfer of portions of the property to the adjacent property owners. Final Map 8337 subdivides the Army Corps land into ninety-nine individual parcels. The Army Corps will retain five lots: the Oakland side of the Tidal Canal (Unsurveyed Remainder Area 1); property adjacent to the federally-owned Navy Operational Support Center (Parcel 3); bridge footings for the High Street Bridge (Parcel 97); the Miller-Sweeney Bridge and the Fruitvale Rail Bridge (Parcel 98); and the Park Street Bridge (Parcel 99). The City will retain the open water on the Alameda side (Parcels 2 and 96), which will be preserved for open navigation though the Tidal Canal. The City will offer fair market value for the remaining 92 lots (Parcels 4 through 96) consisting of eight commercial parcels and eighty-four residential parcels to the adjacent property owners and other interested buyers.
On July 11, 2016, at a noticed public hearing, the Planning Board of the City of Alameda unanimously recommended that the City Council adopt a Final Negative Declaration and approve Tentative Map 8337 (PLN16-0240) for a one hundred and five lot subdivision located along the Tidal Canal from approximately one thousand ...
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