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Recommendation to Approve Gerry Beaudin, Assistant City Manager, Lisa Maxwell, Assistant City Attorney, Debbie Potter, Community Development Director, Andrew Thomas, Planning, Building and Transportation Director, and Nanette Mocanu, Assistant Community Development Director, as Real Property Negotiators for Approximately Five Acres of Tidelands Property, Commonly Known as Encinal Terminals. (City Manager)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City of Alameda (City) has received private party interest in exchanging approximately 5 acres of Tidelands Property (as defined below), commonly known as Encinal Terminals, for approximately 18 acres of waterfront uplands and submerged lands currently owned by North Waterfront Cove, LLC , the developer (Developer). The inquiry initiates the need to identify real property negotiators to represent the City in connection with such prospective negotiations. As such, staff is recommending that the City Council designate Assistant City Manager Beaudin, Assistant City Attorney Maxwell, Community Development Director Potter, Planning, Building and Transportation Director Thomas, and Assistant Community Development Director Mocanu, as the real property negotiators, which will allow them to meet with City Council in closed session to discuss price and terms related to a potential exchange of Encinal Terminals in a manner compliant with all applicable laws and to represent the City in negotiations with a public or private party.
BACKGROUND
The Encinal Terminals property is comprised of 16.73 acres of land and 9.17 acres of submerged land owned by Developer, and 6.4 acres of Public Trust Lands owned by the City in trust for the State of California Tidelands Property). The proposed project is located within the Northern Waterfront Priority Development Area, and the site is designated as a mixed use, multifamily housing opportunity site in the City's General Plan Housing Element an...
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