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Consider Directing Staff to Address Identifying New Areas at Alameda Point to Develop a Number of Housing Units Above the Originally-Agreed Upon Numbers of the 2023-2031 Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA). (Councilmember Daysog) [Not heard on September 7, 21, October 5, 19, November 2, 16, December 7, 21, 2021, January 4 or 18, 2022]
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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. Concurrence that staff time will be devoted to the item does not signify approval.
3) Take dispositive action only on time sensitive legislative matters 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(s) requesting referral: Councilmember Daysog
Date of submission to City Clerk (must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday two weeks before the Council meeting requested): 8/23/2021
Council Meeting date: 9/7/2021
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:
Request staff briefing during regular meeting of City Council for Council and public input on process-related steps City of Alameda will need to “prepare Alameda for the future” with respect to identifying new areas within Alameda Point to develop a number of housing units above the originally-agreed upon numbers (~1,500) within the upcoming RHNA 2023-2031 time-frame.
The City Council, at its July 25, 2020 Priority Setting Workshop, established the following 5 priorities for 2021:
1. Preparing Alameda for the future
2. Encouraging economic development across the Island
3. Supporting enhanced livability and quality of life, including addressing the housing crisis and homelessness
4. Protecting core services
5. Ensuring effective and efficient operations
Briefly describe which Council priority the subject falls under and how it relates:
1. Preparing Alameda for the future
Request staff briefing during regular meeting of City Council for Council and public input on process-related steps City of Alameda will need to “prepare Alameda for the future” with respect to identifying new areas within Alameda Point to develop a number of housing units above the originally-agreed upon numbers (~1,500) within the upcoming RHNA 2023-2031 time-frame, including at a minimum providing briefing on the following times.
- Step 1a: provide briefing on new areas where housing has not been contemplated (such as “Site B” or various areas zoned AP-E1 through AP-E4);
- Step 1b: provide briefing on areas where housing is currently considered, where additional housing above current levels might be considered;
- Step 2: provide briefing on possible range of issues Navy-City of Alameda might discuss with regard to agreement(s) per the number of market rate housing at Alameda Point, and the time-frame for such discussions;
- Step 3: provide briefing on General Plan implications of placing new housing in Alameda Point areas not previously considered for housing, as well as for placing more housing in Alameda Point areas where housing is already contemplated, particularly in terms of time-frame for General Plan work to be completed;
- Step 4: provide briefing on zoning change implications of placing new housing in Alameda Point areas not previously considered for housing, as well as for placing more housing in areas where housing is already contemplated, particularly in terms of time-frame for zoning change work to be completed;
- Step 5: provide briefing on environmental review and analyses implications of placing new housing in Alameda Point areas not previously considered for housing, as well as for placing more housing in areas where housing is already contemplated, particularly in terms of time-frame for CEQA work to be completed;
- Step 6: provide briefing on environmental clean-up analyses implications for placing housing in areas not previously considered for housing, and the time-frame in which environmental clean-up analyses and planning might occur;
- Step 7: provide briefing on process by which developer might be selected to develop housing in Alameda Point areas not originally considered for housing (RFP, RFQ, sole source, etc), and time-frame for which a process might be determined and a developer selected;
- Step 8: provide a briefing on types of issues (financial, design, public benefits, housing types, transit strategies, etc.) developer\City of Alameda will have to negotiate before coming to a term-sheet and possible development agreement, and the time-frame over which these negotiations might occur;
- Step 9: provide a briefing as to the length of time developer will have to produce their own CEQA documents analyzing impacts of their plans;
- Step 10: Provide briefing on process by which developer’s new plans will have to be vetted by city commissions and boards, and the time-frame over which these discussions would occur;
- Step 10: assuming all the issues discussed above (and any other matters not addressed above but relevant) are vetted, provide briefing on time-frame in which ground-breaking for new housing above what was originally agreed-to might occur, recognizing that this is an estimate, and compare this time-frame relative to RHNA 2023-2031 time-frame.