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Hold a Public Workshop to Consider Design Review Amendments for Block 11, Phase I Waterfront Park and Preliminary Designs for Block 15c and Phase II Infrastructure at Alameda Point Site A
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To: President and
Members of the Planning Board
From: Andrew Thomas, Planning, Building, and Transportation Director
Date: September 9, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In June 2015, the City Council unanimously approved the Site A Development Plan and Development Agreement for a three phased development on a 68-acre area within Alameda Point that extends generally from the Main Street entrance to Alameda Point to the Seaplane Lagoon and the eastern edge of the Naval Air Station Alameda Historic District. The Development Plan established a sequence of subsequent actions that would need to be accomplished to design and construct Site A. Over the next three years, the Planning Board and the Site A Master Developer, Alameda Point Partners (APP"), completed:
* Final Design Review approvals for Site A Blocks 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 in Phase I;
* Final Design Review approvals for the 2.6 acre Phase I Waterfront Park and 2.4 acre linear Neighborhood Park in Phase I;
* Final Design Review approval for the Seaplane Lagoon Ferry Terminal in Phase I; and
* Tentative Map for Phase I, and
* Development Plan Amendments for Phases II and III of Site A.
Based upon these approvals, APP has completed construction of over 50% of the construction for the new roads and infrastructure to support Phase I of Site A, and work construction has begun on several of the residential blocks, including the 60 unit senior affordable housing building on Block 8.
In the next six months, APP will be making a number of requests of the Planning Board. Those requests include:
* Design Review modifications for the 220-unit residential building approved for Block 11 by the Planning Board in 2016, (Exhibit 1)
* Design Review modifications for the Waterfront Park de...
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