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Consider Establishing an Implementation Plan for Creating the Shoreline Ecological Park on the West Side of Seaplane Lagoon at Alameda Point, Commonly Known as De-Pave Park. (Councilmembers Oddie and Daysog)
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COUNCIL REFERRAL FORM
The Council can take any of the following actions:
1) Take no action.
2) Refer the matter to staff to schedule as a future City Council agenda item.
3) Take dispositive action if sufficiently noticed such that the public and Council have been provided sufficient information by the published agenda, and no formal published notice of a public hearing is required.
Name of Councilmember requesting referral: Councilmember Oddie
Date of submission to City Clerk (must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday two weeks before the Council meeting requested): 9/26/2019
Council Meeting date: 10/15/19
Brief description of the subject to be printed on the agenda, sufficient to inform the City Council and public of the nature of the referral:
Consider Establishing an Implementation Plan for Creating the Shoreline Ecological Park on the West Side of Seaplane Lagoon at Alameda Point.
Request that the City Council direct the City Manager to start preparing an implementation plan for the shoreline ecological park on the west side of the Seaplane Lagoon, commonly known as "De-Pave Park."
The park concept is described in the Alameda Point Town Center and Waterfront Specific Plan, approved in 2014. It is highlighted in the 2019 Climate Action and Resiliency Plan (CARP) as an adaptation measure for "Increasing Resiliency for Shoreline, Natural, and Recreation Areas." The CARP also references the greenhouse gas sequestration benefits of projects like De-Pave Park in Chapter 3, page 38, where it states, "Support and fund the vision of coastal dune, grassland, and wetland/marsh habitat enhancement and creation at Alameda Point to support sea level rise adaptation and carbon sequestration, among other benefits such as wildlife habitat an...
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