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Public hearing to consider a conditional use permit application PLN21-0037 for Astra Space, Inc. for rocket research, development, light industrial manufacturing, indoor rocket engine testing, perimeter security fencing, and outdoor storage and work areas at and adjacent to 1900 Skyhawk Street and 1690 Orion Street within the Enterprise District at Alameda Point.
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To: Honorable President and
Members of the Planning Board
From: Andrew Thomas, Planning, Building and Transportation Director
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Over the last 25 years the City of Alameda (City) has been working to replace the 14,000 jobs lost to the Alameda economy by the departure of the U.S. Navy from the City in 1996. In 1996, the City Council approved the NAS Alameda Community Reuse Plan to redevelop NAS Alameda as a mixed-use development with 14,000 jobs. In 2014, the City Council approved an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and a comprehensive rezoning for the Alameda Point to guide the redevelopment of the area. The Alameda Point zoning envisions adaptive reuse of the buildings in the Naval Air Station (NAS) Historic District and demolition of existing buildings and new construction in the Enterprise District of Alameda Point, which is the area generally bounded by West Hornet Avenue, Main Street, West Atlantic Avenue (Ralph Appezzatto Memorial Parkway), and the Seaplane Lagoon.
Over the last 25 years, the area identified as the Enterprise District has seen little to no significant reinvestment. With few exceptions, commercial tenants in this area have been short term, month to month tenants unwilling to invest or make a long-term commitment to Alameda Point. One of those exceptions has been the Water Emergency Transit Agency (WETA), which constructed their maintenance and operations center (the four-story building by the USS Hornet) and their new Seaplane Lagoon Ferry Terminal.
Astra Space, Inc. (referred to herein as Astra Space, Astra, and applicant) has been opera...
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