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Public Hearing to Consider Introduction of Ordinance Adopting the Alameda Point Main Street Neighborhood Specific Plan. (Base Reuse 819099)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jill Keimach, City Manager
Re: Public Hearing to Consider Introduction of Ordinance Adopting the Alameda Point Main Street Neighborhood Specific Plan
BACKGROUND
Over the course of the last 18 months, City of Alameda staff, the firm Urban Planning Partners (UPP) and their team of consultants, with partial funding from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), have been working on the Main Street Neighborhood Specific Plan (MSN Plan) for Alameda Point. Alameda Point is a designated Priority Development Area (PDA) in the Bay Area's sustainable communities strategy (Plan Bay Area), which makes Alameda Point eligible for regional funds to plan and implement transit-oriented land use plans.
The draft MSN Plan (Exhibit 1) is a specific plan for development of the Main Street Neighborhood, which covers approximately 108 acres, comprising the community south of the Main Street Ferry terminal and north of the Town Center and waterfront land surrounding the historic Seaplane Lagoon. An approved Specific Plan is required before new development can occur in the Main Street Neighborhood Sub-district per the Alameda Point Zoning Ordinance (Alameda Municipal Code 30-4.24), which was approved by City Council on February 4, 2014 (MSN Plan Figure 0-1).
The MSN Plan is informed by:
* The 1996 Naval Air Station Alameda Community Reuse Plan;
* The approved 2014 Alameda Point Master Infrastructure Plan (MIP), Zoning Amendment, and the General Plan Amendment;
* The 2013 Alameda Point Conceptual Planning Guide;
* Stakeholder meetings with the Collaborating Partners (Alameda Point Collaborative (APC), Building Futures with Women and Children, and Operation Dignity), Alameda Architectural Preservation Society (AAPS), Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA), Alam...
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