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Encinal Terminals Master Plan Study Session The Planning Board will hold a study session to review and comment on the Draft Encinal Terminals Master Plan.
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To: President and
Members of the Planning Board
From: Andrew Thomas, Assistant Community Development Director
BACKGROUND
Encinal Terminals is an approximately 23-acre vacant property surrounded by water on three sides located behind the Del Monte Warehouse on the Northern Waterfront. The Wind River office campus is immediately across the Alaska Basin from the site, and the eastern edge of the peninsula is occupied by Fortman Marina.
From 1994 to 2009, the site was occupied by a shipping container maintenance facility that repaired and stored approximately 6,000 shipping containers on the site and generated between 200 and 250 truck trips per day from the site into the adjacent community and estuary crossings.
In 2008, the City Council adopted the Northern Waterfront General Plan amendment that established a series of General Plan policies to govern the redevelopment of the site from an industrial trucking facility to a mixed use residential development with public waterfront open space.
In 2009, the City rezoned the site from Manufacturing (M-2) to Mixed Use (MX) and terminated the use permit for the shipping container facility. The site has been vacant since 2010.
In 2012, the City zoned portions of the site for multifamily housing. The approval of the multifamily overlay zoning (MF) was critical to the City's effort to bring the City's General Plan and Zoning Ordinance into conformance with State law. The MF overlay was not applied to the approximately 6 acres of land within the site that is owned by the City of Alameda and that is subject to State Tidelands restrictions prohibiting residential use.
On February 29, 2016, North Waterfront Cove, LLC (the "applicant") submitted an application for a draft Master Plan for the site. The draft Master ...
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