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Adoption of Resolution Authorizing the Interim City Manager to Execute a Cooperation Agreement and Any Amendments Thereto between Eden Housing, Inc., a California Corporation, and the City of Alameda for Compliance with the Requirements of a Grant Application Under the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Funding Program for: A) the 70-Unit Family Affordable Housing Project on Block 8 within Site A at Alameda Point and B) Transportation Projects (a Segment of Main Street (West Side) between Pacific and Atlantic Avenues or a Segment of Central Avenue, and Lighting Along the Cross-Alameda Trail). (Base Reuse 819099)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: David L. Rudat, Interim City Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Staff is seeking authorization for the Interim City Manager to execute a Cooperation Agreement with Eden Housing, the Site A affordable housing developer, as part of Eden Housing's submittal of an Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) grant application for its 70-unit family housing project (up to $11.3 million). As part of the AHSC grant, transportation projects are also eligible for funding. AC Transit is proposing to purchase an additional bus to service Alameda Point ($1.3 million). City staff is recommending authorization for three potential transportation projects, improvements to a segment of Main Street (west side) between Pacific and Atlantic Avenues or a Segment of Central Avenue that would improve bicycle and pedestrian access and usage (up to $2.7 million) and installing lighting along a 0.8-mile segment of the Cross-Alameda trail ($800,000). The maximum funding request would be $16.2 million.
BACKGROUND
In June 2015, the City Council unanimously approved the Site A Development Plan and a Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA) with Alameda Point Partners (APP), for a 68-acre area within Alameda Point that extends generally from the Main Street entrance of Alameda Point to...
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