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Public Hearing to consider a Planning Board recommendation to approve a Master Plan and Density Bonus application for the Encinal Terminals property at 1521 Buena Vista Avenue. Applicant: North Waterfront Cove, LLC. An addendum to a previously certified Focused Supplemental Environmental Impact Report for the project has been prepared, in conformance with the California Environmental Quality Act
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Date: July 23, 2018
Re: Public Hearing to consider a Planning Board recommendation to approve a Master Plan and Density Bonus application for the Encinal Terminals property at 1521 Buena Vista Avenue. Applicant: North Waterfront Cove, LLC. An addendum to a previously certified Focused Supplemental Environmental Impact Report for the project has been prepared, in conformance with the California Environmental Quality Act.
BACKGROUND
The Encinal Terminals property is comprised of 16.73 acres of land and 9.17 acres of submerged land owned by North Waterfront Cove, LLC ("the applicant"), and 6.4 acres of Public Trust Lands owned by the City in trust for the State of California ("the tidelands property"). The property is located within the Northern Waterfront Priority Development Area, and the site is designated as a mixed use, multifamily housing opportunity site in the City of Alameda General Plan Housing Element and Alameda Municipal Code (AMC). The entire site is zoned mixed use (MX) to support residential mixed use development. The applicant's portion of the property also includes a Multifamily Housing Combining District (MF overlay) designation, which was applied in 2012 by the City Council to meet the City's Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA). The MF overlay was not applied to the tidelands portion of the site because tidelands property may not be used for residential purposes under State law.
On December 19, 2017, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 15337 certifying the Final Focused Supplemental Environmental Impact Repo...
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