Housing

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A deeply divided Alameda City Council may end up walking away from the city’s latest proposal to prepare Alameda Point for development, with some council members saying they think the city should focus on existing tenants and forget about moving forward with new development plans for a few years. The development strategy has been in the works since the council fired former master developer SunCal in July 2010.

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On January 4, 2012, the Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority (ARRAAlameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority. The City Council acts in this capacity.) and the United States Navy (Navy) entered into a second amendment to the 2000 Economic Development Conveyance Memorandum of Agreement (EDCEconomic Development Conveyance MOA), authorizing a no-cost conveyance of the 918-acre portion of the former Naval Air Station Alameda (NASNaval Air Station Alameda), commonly referred to as Alameda Point. Pursuant to the EDC MOA, it is expected that conveyance of significant portions of the Alameda Point property will occur during 2012.

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On Alameda’s economic future, Russo sees one sure way to bolster Alameda’s largely residential tax base is the development of Alameda Point. “The reason the Naval Air Station is so important — and why I believe passionately that we need to move this thing after 15 years of just frittering around the edges — it was the economic driving force for the Island,” he says.

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The city’s commitment to proceed with a less-intensive development plan than the one proposed by former Alameda Point developer SunCal could face a major hurdle: The amount of development now being contemplated for the former Naval Air Station may not pencil out financially.

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At Tuesday's city council meeting City Manager John Russo presented a plan to help the city determine the future of Alameda Point. "With the city poised to become the property owner of significant parts of the Alameda Point property by the end of this year, the next logical step is to decide how the city will facilitate the development of the property," Russo stated in the staff report he presented to the council.

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Alameda city leaders are proposing an overall development strategy for Alameda Point that breaks up the former Naval Air Station into neighborhoods for possible future homes, stores and businesses.

The goal is to jump-start entitlements -- the legal process for securing the right to develop a property for a particular use -- in the wake of a deal between the city and the U.S. Navy for a no-cost conveyance of the base.

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Alameda’s city leaders are inching forward with a plan to prepare Alameda Point for development themselves, instead of letting a private developer do it. The City Council agreed Tuesday night to let city staff seek out a professional advisor to help mold their strategy, and to use Point lease revenues to cover its $5 million cost.

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The City Council is set tonight to consider a proposed development strategy for Alameda Point, most of which is expected to be in the city’s hands by the end of this year.

City officials want to divide the Point property into three separate areas – two commercial, one residential – that they would prepare for reuse and development, a departure from earlier efforts to get developers to do that work instead. They’re saying the new strategy would offer the city more certainty and control over development at the Point, and could expedite development efforts there.

Alameda Point Rezoning Public Workshop The Planning Board will hold a public workshop to consider a initial proposals for zoning amendments at Alameda Point to conform the zoning regulations for the property to the policies, objectives, and standards for the property included in the City of Alameda General Plan and the City of Alameda Community Reuse Plan. The purpose of the meeting is to solicit public comments on the proposals. No final actions will be taken by the Planning Board on the proposals at this meeting.