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Despite numerous businesses on Alameda Point, there are precious few restaurants but that's about to change.

Alameda began taking applications Monday from mobile restaurateurs.

San Francisco's Financial District hosts many exotic lunch wagons because there's more than enough people to patronize them as well as regular eateries.

For existing mobile restaurants, Alameda presents new opportunities.

"I think that's great, the more the merrier for all the trucks," said Josh Yazzie, a food truck employee. "It's a growing business."

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Presentation Outline

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Entitlement Process
Evaluation Criteria
Evaluation of Options
Next Steps

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Traffic is moving fast and freely. You glance down at your phone—just for a second—and then a warning tone alerts you to slam on the brakes. When you look up, you see the rear of the car you nearly plowed into.

That's the best-case scenario for new vehicle communication technologies that the U.S. Department of Transportation and eight automakers tested in Alameda, California, last week during the last six clinics designed to discover how ordinary drivers from across the United States react to cars that can talk to each other via Wi-Fi and warn drivers of impending collisions.

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For Ploughshares Nursery, the medium truly is the message. The huge, weeded mound that stands between the nursery and Alameda Point Collaborative's urban farm on the former Navy base will soon be leveled to make way for a new, sustainable education and retail center, and the dirt that otherwise would be hauled away will instead fill earth bags that will be used to construct the building.

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Driving to Alameda Point in the East Bay may leave a first timer a little lost. It’s out towards the waterfront, past the Victorian neighborhoods of downtown Alameda. Close to the point, the land becomes vast, open, and quiet. There are WWII-era ships across the Bay, which let visitors know that this place was once something different. It used to be the Alameda Air Station until it was closed down in the mid 90s. That was when the government re-purposed the housing and designated Alameda Point for the displaced and homeless.

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The fourth annual Bay Area International Children’s Film Festival consists of two days of movie watching and hands-on workshops that encourage family members to act, animate, and pixilate. Called “A Playdate for the Imagination,” the festival will take place at the restored Art Deco Movie Theater in the former Alameda Naval Air Base from Saturday, January 28 to Sunday, January 29. Doors open at 9:30am and the screen lights up at 10:30am.

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The Ploughshares Nursery of Alameda has been awarded a $32,074 grant from the Yahoo Employee Foundation, which will help the nonprofit Alameda Point Collaborative nursery construct a new ultra-green building featuring straw bale and earth bag construction, a living roof, and rainwater catchment and reuse systems. The building will use photovoltaic power.

The 2,500-square-foot facility will provide a retail center as well as educational workshop space, product storage and offices for the nursery.

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On Sunday, November 11, Dutra Dredging wrapped up five weeks of maintenance dredging in the channel leading to the Alameda Point docks. This channel is on the south side of Alameda Point where the maritime ships and USS Hornet are docked. Half of the dredge soil went to the in-bay disposal site at Alcatraz. The other half, unfortunately, was towed 50 miles out into the ocean—past the Farallon Islands—for disposal at a federally approved disposal site. A multi-agency effort to divert dredge material to beneficial reuse in the Bay and Delta proved ineffective in this case.

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Adopt a City Council Resolution Appropriating $379,000 in Federal
HOME Funds and Authorizing the City Manager to Negotiate and
Execute the Necessary Documents to Complete the Loan to the
Alameda Point Collaborative for Acquisition and Rehabilitation of 240
Corpus Christi , 230 Corpus Christi , 2471 Orion , 2451 Orion , 201
Stardust, 251 Stardust , and 271 Stardust (Property)
Approve ARRAAlameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority. The City Council acts in this capacity. Financing on the Property in the Amount of $2,279,000