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Study Session to Provide Comments and Direction on Collaborating Partners Main Street Neighborhood Site Plan
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To: Honorable President and
Members of the Planning Board
From: Michelle Giles, Redevelopment Project Manager, Base Reuse
Date: April 24, 2017
Re: Study Session to Provide Comments and Direction on Collaborating Partners Main Street Neighborhood Site Plan
DISCUSSION
On March 21, 2017, the City Council approved the Main Street Neighborhood (MSN) Specific Plan. The MSN Plan fulfills the General Plan policy objectives for a transit-oriented mixed-use, mixed income neighborhood with diverse housing options, parks and open spaces, neighborhood-serving businesses and transitional commercial uses. The MSN Plan implements this vision through a variety of regulations, standards, and guidelines for both public improvements and private investment.
One of the primary objectives of the Specific Plan was to facilitate the consolidation and rebuilding of the existing supportive housing that is currently located in deteriorating 70+ year old housing scattered across 34 acres of the Main Street Neighborhood. The supportive housing groups who lease and operate this housing include: Alameda Point Collaborative (APC), Building Futures with Women and Children (BFWC), and Operation Dignity, known at the "Collaborating Partners".
The Collaborating Partners work to meet the housing and service needs of persons impacted by homelessness, poverty, mental health concerns, domestic violence and veteran status in the Main Street Neighborhood. In addition to leasing and managing 200 housing units for over 500 residents, the organizations provide employment training for adults, an academic center, teen center, and summer programming for children.
In the summer and fall of 2015, the Collaborating Partners and Mid-Pen Housing Corporation (Mid-Pen), a Bay Area-based nonprofit affordable housing developer selected to assist the Collaborating Partners in const...
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