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The City Council is set to consider leasing a waterfront site that could be home to the first construction project at Alameda Point – a maintenance and operations center for the Bay Area’s public ferry service.

Tonight, the council will consider offering initial approval of a 60-year lease granting the Water Emergency Transportation Authority a spot on West Hornet Avenue to build its planned four-story Central Bay Operations and Maintenance Center. If the council okays the lease, construction of the $45 million to $50 million project could begin in January and the facility could be ready to open by May 2017.

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The Sierra Club is asking the council to delay its approval of the lease, over concerns the new facility could erase critical habitat for San Francisco Bay-dwelling harbor seals. The seals have been using a deteriorating recreational pier as a resting and birthing area, and while an agreement with the ferry service to replace it is promised, it has yet to be inked.