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Recommendation to Name the New Park known as Alameda Landing Waterfront Park as Bohol Circle Immigrant Park and Direct Staff to Include Educational Signage About Bohol Circle. (Recreation 10051400)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The four-acre park at the Alameda Landing Waterfront (Park) will be opening soon and was built by Catellus, as a requirement for its housing development. The Recreation and Parks Commission (Commission) followed the four-step process detailed in the City of Alameda (City) Facilities and Street Naming Policy (Naming Policy). This process included naming discussions at three Commission meetings and two community-wide surveys. The Commission unanimously recommended the name Bohol Circle Immigrant Park to the City Council with the inclusion of educational signage with information and history about Bohol Circle.
BACKGROUND
In October 2021, the City Council updated the City Naming Policy. The goal of the updated Naming Policy is to broaden the naming criteria to allow greater diversity, equity and inclusion as well as broader community input at public Brown Act meetings. Therefore, standing criteria is written into the Naming Policy that names should reflect diversity, equity and inclusion to intentionally broaden the representation of people in our community.
The Naming Policy provides for a four-step public process that was followed by the Commission.
On December 9, 2021, the Commission received a presentation on the Park describing the location, background and any identifying features. At that meeting, the Commission approved the naming criteria for this park as "The uniqueness of the park's location on the pier and estuary with an intersection with diverse and inclusive cultural significance in Alameda."
Staff then conducted a community-wide survey to solicit name ideas for the Park based on the established criteria. The community survey included four new parks for effici...
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