Environmental-Issues

Outline

Background
Two Remaining Mandatory Milestones
.Finalized Navy Term Sheet
.Disposition and Development Agreement

Discussion
.Denial of SunCal Modified OEAOptional Entitlement Application
..Findings for Denial
...Lack of Commitment to Mixed-Use Transit-Oriented Development
...Jobs/Housing Imbalance
...Need for Economic Development Strategy
...Traffic Impacts
...Impacts to Endangered Species
...Risk of Project Infeasibility and Adverse Outcomes
...Lack of Community Support

..Responses to Questions from Alameda's July 7, 2010 Meeting

Excerpt:

In his new book, Peter Calthorpe, the renowned Berkeley-based urban designer, sounds many a familiar environmentalist note. Paying explicit homage to Buckminster Fuller, he talks of “whole systems design” and “climate responsive buildings,” and issues dire warnings about global warming and peak oil and the dangers of our car-based lifestyle. He rejects “bigger is better” consumerism and advocates nothing less than a “new configuration for the American Dream.”

Excerpt:

What does the massive redevelopment of Treasure Island give to San Francisco?

First and foremost, it funnels public money into jobs for construction workers and profits for the contractors who will do the building. The project also promises to loosen up a housing market that has stayed tight through the recession, creating 8,000 new residential units, 30 percent of it affordable housing. Bonus: All those new residents (around 20,000) and businesses will add significantly to the city’s tax base.

Excerpt:

From Antioch to North Richmond to Redwood City, a slow rising sea level could endanger the properties of as many as 270,000 Bay Area residents and cause some $56.5 billion in damage by the end of the century unless measures are taken to protect them, experts say.

But is anyone doing anything about it?

Cities typically aren't prepared to tackle the issue, so it has been left in the hands of developers, and some are acting: The ground on Treasure Island would be raised — at a cost of more than $1 billion — to keep future neighborhoods high and dry under one developer's solution to possible rising sea levels. And developers of Redwood City's Saltworks property plan to build up earthen levees.

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Also includes previous SunCal Activity updates.

Memo Outline

Background (Includes Chronology)

Project Description

Evaluation of SunCal Modified OEAOptional Entitlement Application
...Land Use Plan
...Transportation Plan
...Sustainability and Climate Change Plan
...Economic Development
...NASNaval Air Station Historic District
...Affordable Housing Plan
...Endangered Species and the Least Tern Colony

Next Steps
...Mandatory Milestones
...Potential of Automatic Extension
...Final Determination

Memo also includes the following attachments
April 13 , 2010 Letter From SunCal regarding Project Description
Base Project Plan and Density Bonus Plan Diagrams (Figure 1)

Story is on pages 54-57 of May/June 2010 issue.

PLANNING BOARD STAFF REPORT
DATE: May 10, 2010
TO HONORABLE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE
PLANNING BOARD
FROM Jennifer Ott Deputy City Manager
Andrew Thomas Planning Services Manager
APPLICATION Alameda Point Entitlement Application and
Public Scoping Session for Proposed Alameda Point Project
Draft Environmental Impact Report
APPLICANT SCCSunCal Companies Alameda Point LLCLimited Liability Corporation
GENERAL PLAN Mixed Use and Open Space
ZONING DISTRICT M 2/G (General Industry Federal Facilities Overlay)