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Re: Adopt a Resolution Approving the Rebuilding the Existing Supportive Housing at Alameda Point (RESHAP) Development Plan and Density Bonus Waiver. The streamlining provision of Public Resources Section 21083.3 and Section 15183 of the CEQA Guidelines apply and no further environmental review is required.
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To: Honorable President and Members of the Planning Board
From: Michelle Giles, Redevelopment Project Manager
Jennifer Ott, Base Reuse Director
Date: September 25, 2017
Re: Adopt a Resolution Approving the Rebuilding the Existing Supportive Housing at Alameda Point (RESHAP) Development Plan and Density Bonus Waiver. The streamlining provision of Public Resources Section 21083.3 and Section 15183 of the CEQA Guidelines apply and no further environmental review is required.
BACKGROUND
On March 21, 2017, the City Council approved the Main Street Neighborhood Specific Plan which 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. One of the primary objectives of the Specific Plan is to facilitate the consolidation and rebuilding of the existing supportive housing groups that are currently located in 70+ year old deteriorating housing scattered across 34 acres of the Main Street Neighborhood.
The supportive housing groups include Alameda Point Collaborative (APC), Building Futures with Women and Children (BFWC), and Operation Dignity. The housing groups, working with nonprofit affordable housing developer MidPen Housing Corporation, are collectively known as the "Collaborating Partners". In 2015, the Collaborating Partners partnered with their respective residents, David Baker Architects and Urban Design Innovations to select a preferred location for their rebuilding project and design criteria for their future rebuilding project. Their preferred site was incorporated into th...
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