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PLN19-0095 - Amendments to List of Street and Facility Names - Alameda Marina and Citywide - Applicants: Pacific Shops, Inc. and City of Alameda - The applicants request a public hearing to amend the List of Street and Facility Names for the Alameda Marina Master Plan project and other revisions to the List. This action is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15061(b)3, where it can be seen with certainty there is no possibility that amending the City's street names list will have a significant effect on the environment
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To: Chair Saxby and Members of the Historical Advisory Board
From: Allen Tai,
Secretary to the Historical Advisory Board
BACKGROUND
In 2007, the City Council adopted the Policy for Naming City Property, Facilities and Streets (Policy) to formalize a process and criteria for naming City facilities and streets (Exhibit 1). The Policy also establishes the Historical Advisory Board (HAB) as the keeper of the List of Street and Facility Names (Exhibit 2) and was last updated by the Council in 2016. The HAB may approve additions or deletions to the List upon the request of a board or commission or a member of the community. The List currently includes names of early settlers, past community and civic leaders, architects and builders, and aircraft and ships associated with Alameda's industrial and naval history.
While the HAB maintains the list of names, the actual naming of a City street is the responsibility of the Planning Board and often occurs as part the entitlement process for new development. In 2018, the City Council approved a master plan to redevelop the Alameda Marina site into residential, commercial, boatyard and marina mixed-use. The next steps to implement the master plan includes laying out a new pedestrian path and road network to access the waterfront and interiors of the site to serve new development. The applicant is developing the subdivision map wher...
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