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PLN20-0100 - Recommendation to Adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration and Rezoning - 2350 Fifth Street - Applicant: City of Alameda. Public Hearing to consider a recommendation to the City Council to adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration and rezone a 0.82-acre site at 2350 Fifth Street from M-X, Mixed Use to R-4, Neighborhood Residential. An Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration has been prepared to analyze the environmental effects of the project in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
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To: Honorable President and Members of the Planning Board
From: Andrew Thomas, Planning, Building and Transportation Director
BACKGROUND
In February 2012, redevelopment agencies throughout the State were dissolved and successor agencies were established and charged with unwinding the affairs of their respective redevelopment agencies. The City's redevelopment agency, called the Community Improvement Commission (CIC), was dissolved and succeeded by the Successor Agency to the CIC (Successor Agency). Per State law, the Successor Agency prepared and submitted a Long Range Property Management Plan (LRPMP) to the State of Department of Finance (DOF) to govern the disposition of real property assets of the former CIC. The LRPMP requires that the property located at 2350 Fifth Street (Exhibit 1) be sold in the open market for the highest feasible price.
After several unsuccessful efforts to attract a buyer for the land for commercial purposes, the City of Alameda and the Successor Agency staff have determined that the highest and best use for the land would be a residential use.
The subject property is an irregularly shaped, 35,556 square foot (0.82 acre)? remnant parcel across from the Bayport residential development and the Alameda Landing Shopping Center and immediately adjacent to the College of Alameda track at the intersection of Fifth Street and Stargell Avenue. The property is vacant and has no on-site utilities. ...
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