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Recommendation to Consider Providing Direction to City Staff to Draft Charter Amendment Related to Article 26 (Measure A) to Resolve Conflicts between Article 26 and the City of Alameda General Plan and Alameda Municipal Code. (City Council Subcommittee)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Alameda City Charter Article 26 ("Measure A") conflicts with provisions within the City of Alameda General Plan and Alameda Municipal Code that were adopted in 2012 and 2014 to bring the City of Alameda General Plan and Municipal Code into compliance with State Law.
This report outlines four options that the Council may consider to resolve the conflicting provisions within the City Charter. The subcommittee is not recommending a particular way forward, only providing options for discussion and consideration while the council decides whether it would like to provide direction to staff for future refinement or not.
BACKGROUND
Summary of the timeline and key events in the Charter Review Subcommittee activities
* December 2018, after the election, Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft appointed a subcommittee to look at the City Charter and recommend potential items for the City Council to consider putting on the Ballot.
* In April 2019, the subcommittee returned to the City Council with a list of proposed issues to return in time for consideration to place items on the November 2020 ballot. At this meeting, additional items were added.
* In August 2019, the City Council's Charter Review subcommittee asked the City of Alameda Planning, Building, and Transportation Department and the City of Alameda Planning Board to provide the subcommittee with an evaluation of the land use regulations contained in Article 26 subsections 1, 2 and 3 of the Alameda City Charter, commonly referred to as "Measure A". For the meeting, City staff prepared an evaluation of Article 26 (Exhibit 1) that provides an analysis of Article 26's inconsistency with ...
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