The Island: Candidate Quesionnaire
What do you think needs to be done with Alameda Point – and what steps
would you take to make that happen?
The first thing the ARRA must do is
to look at the existing plans such as the approved Community Reuse Plan
and the Preliminary Development Concept. These reuse plans include a
substantial amount of support data and plans, such as land use,
transportation, traffic data, engineering data, environmental assessments,
historical buildings, etc. The community has already held two educational
forums. The first forum started with a review of the existing approved plans,
historical buildings and adaptive reuse, remediation requirements and
present tenant uses. The next forum consisted of three presentations
showing different types of base conversions, The Presidio Trust, Fort Ord
(City of Marina), and The Great Park (El Toro). All three conversions had a
different management oversight philosophy or development delivery
system, which ranged from a public trust, economic development
corporation to a public benefit corporation.
The community needs to formulate a new or revised vision for Alameda
Point. This will delineate development phasing, infrastructure requirements
and cost, etc. The ARRA must implement a real estate asset
management policy, financial resource stream and master plan with the
proper entitlements. Only then can the ARRA move forward in fully
developing Alameda Point