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Receive Presentation from Alameda Municipal Power and Make Recommendation on Doolittle Landfill Solar Project
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To: Honorable Chair and Members of the Recreation and Park Commission
From: Amy Wooldridge, Recreation and Parks Director
Re: Receive Presentation from Alameda Municipal Power and Make Recommendation on Doolittle Landfill Solar Project
BACKGROUND
Alameda Municipal Power (AMP) is the City of Alameda’s municipal electric utility. AMP Staff will make a presentation on a potential project to install an array of solar panels at the Doolittle Landfill. This is a 40-acre area zoned as Open Space and is currently closed to the public due to off-gassing of methane. There is a bicycle/pedestrian trail around the perimeter of the Doolittle Landfill and the Bill Osborne Model Airplane Field is directly adjacent to it. Both of these recreational facilities will not be impacted by the installation of solar at Doolittle Landfill.
DISCUSSION
This project is proposed to be a 20-year lease agreement with a 5-year non-automatic lease extension. The future park is not estimated to be usable and accessible to the public for at least 10-15 years. This future park would require an estimated $10 million to remediate the land into usable space because, as a former landfill, it requires a three-foot clean dirt cap on the entire site.
This project will provide $200,000 to renovate the existing bicycle/pedestrian trail around the former landfill with $40,000 per year in lease revenues that will be held in a dedicated fund for remediation of Doolittle Landfill into a park once this is feasible.
RECOMMENDATION
To receive a presentation from Alameda Municipal Power staff, discuss and make a recommendation to the Planning Board and City Council on the Doolittle Landfill Solar Project.
Respectfully submitted,
Amy Wooldridge, Recreation and Parks Director