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PLN18-0231 - Addition to the Historical Buildings Study List - 1100 Marina Village Parkway. Public hearing to consider a recommendation to add the Shipways site to the Alameda Historical Buildings Study List. The property is an approximately 8.1-acre site located at 1100 Marina Village Parkway (APN: 074-1334-067, -024, and -026). The addition of the Shipways site to the Historical Buildings Study List is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act and no further environmental review is required.
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To: Honorable Chair and
Members of the Historical Advisory Board
From: Allen Tai
Secretary to the Historical Advisory Board
BACKGROUND
On May 3, 2018, the Historical Advisory Board (HAB) held a public hearing to comment on the Shipways Draft Environmental Impact Report. The Board then directed staff to prepare a resolution for the Board to adopt to add the Shipways site at 1100 Marina Village Parkway to the Historical Buildings Study List. This report provides a summary of the technical analysis to support adding the Shipways site to the study list.
ANALYSIS
On March 15, 2017, the Cavallari Group, Inc. submitted an application to develop the Shipways site for a multi-family residential complex. The City of Alameda determined that the proposal required preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). A historic resource evaluation of the Shipways site was prepared for the EIR. The resulting study by Carey & Co, Inc. (Exhibit 1) found that the site is a historic resource due to its association with wartime efforts at a national level and the development of steel shipbuilding and repair at the local level. Marina Village, in which the Shipways site is located, was formally a regional shipyard that played a major role in World Wars I and II. The original complex spread over seventy acres and included the shipways, marine buildings for warehousin...
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