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Adoption of Resolution Approving the Final Map and Authorizing Execution of the Public Improvement Agreement for Tract 8336 for the First Final Map for Site A, Phase 1 at Alameda Point. (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 Authorizing Execution of the Public Improvement Agreement for Tract 8336 for the First Final Map for Site A Phase 1 at Alameda Point.
BACKGROUND
In June 2015, the City Council unanimously approved the Site A Development Plan and a Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA) with the private developer, Alameda Point Partners (APP), 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 Seaplane Lagoon.
On July 19, 2016, the City Council approved Tentative Map Tract 8336 per City of Alameda Resolution No. 15187 for Phase 1 of the Site A development. The Tentative Map allows for the creation of 12 parcels on 21.35 acres of land for Phase 1 within Site A and remainder parcels at Alameda Point. The Tentative Map also contemplates finalizing multiple Final Maps. This is the first Final Map and the second Final Map will be forthcoming. The only map under consideration this evening is the first Final Map. This first Final Map provides for 10 parcels, including for condominium purposes on lots 2 and 3. The Final Map also includes dedications of Ardent Way, Coronado Avenue, Consair Way, Ferry Point Way, Main Street, Orion Street, Skylark Street and West Atlantic Avenue as public streets, and includes dedications of lots 9, 10, and 11 for public park purposes. The Final Map is on file in the Public Works Department. The City of Alameda is the current owner of the property and will not transfer the property to APP until all of the provisions of transfer in the DDA have been met, including providing security in form and amount consistent with the Phase 1 improvements plans, the Public Improvement Agreement (PIA), and Final Map.
DISCUSSION
The Final Map has been reviewed and determined to be technically correct and in substantial conformance with the approved tentative map, conditions of approval, and mitigation measures. The Public Works Department has approved all improvement plans and these permits will be issued contingent upon receiving approval from outside regulatory agencies, as memorialized in the conditions of approval. The tract infrastructure includes sanitary sewer and storm drain lines, sidewalk, curb, gutter, street pavement, and landscaping. The condition of approval related to the off-site storm water trash capture device for the outfall will be met by constructing the off-site trash capture device in Phase 2 of the Site A development, and providing for preventive trash capture devices to be installed downstream to bridge this work until the off-site device is completed in Phase 2. The respective property owners and/or homeowner’s association will maintain the private infrastructure and the City will maintain the public infrastructure.
As specified in the DDA and the PIA with the City executed by APP (Exhibit 2), APP must provide security in form and amount acceptable to the City prior to transfer of the property from the City to APP. The performance bond guaranteeing the public improvements and the labor and materials bond will be executed in the amounts required for the Phase 1 infrastructure package prior to transfer of the property from the City to APP consistent with the DDA and the attached PIA and prior to commencement of any construction of the public improvements. APP has also provided the City with a letter from the surety that the required security is ready to be issued upon conveyance of the property to APP. The City Attorney has already reviewed and approved as to form the PIA and the form of the bonds and has made the determination the conditions of approval in the Tentative Map related to security have been met since the City maintains ownership over the property and cannot transfer it to APP without acceptable security being in place.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
There is no impact to the General Fund or Base Reuse Fund budgets since all of the tract improvements will be constructed by APP and maintained by the respective property owners and/or homeowner’s association, and the public infrastructure will be maintained through increased General Fund revenues and special taxes for municipal services generated from the formation of a Community Facilities District consistent with the DDA and the City’s fiscal neutrality policy for Alameda Point.
MUNICIPAL CODE/POLICY DOCUMENT CROSS REFERENCE
This action does not affect the Municipal Code.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
Per City of Alameda Resolution No. 14891, the City Council certified the Final Alameda Point Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) (State Clearinghouse No. 201312043) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California Public Resources Code Section 21000 et seq. and adopted written findings and a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) on February 4, 2014, for the Alameda Point Project, including the Town Center Plan area which contains Site A.
RECOMMENDATION
Adoption of resolution approving the Final Map and authorizing execution of the Public Improvement Agreement for Tract 8336 for the first Final Map for Site A Phase 1 at Alameda Point.
Respectfully submitted,
Liam Garland, Acting Public Works Director
By:
Shahram Aghamir, City Engineer
Financial Impact section reviewed,
Elena Adair, Finance Director
Exhibits:
1. Final Map
2. Public Improvement Agreement