Resolution 12933CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 12933
APPROVING GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT, GPA- 97 -01, POLICIES 2.8.B AND 2.8.0 AND
RELATED GENERAL PLAN TEXT AND TO REALIGN THE BAY TRAIL BY AMENDMENT
OF THE PARKS AND OPEN SPACE DESIGNATION ON THE GENERAL PLAN DIAGRAM
FOR PROPERTIES LOCATED AT 2020 SHERMAN STREET, ENCINAL TERMINALS
BERTH 5.
WHEREAS, an application was made on May 5, 1997 by Wind River Systems requesting
a General Plan Amendment relating to approval for development of approximately 371,000 square
feet of space in five office and/or research and development buildings located on the
Oakland— Alameda Estuary, on the west side of Alaska Basin, northeast of the point where Atlantic
Avenue ends and feeds into Sherman Street. The net land area consists of about 20.4 acres (within
a 32.225 —acre site; about 11.8 acres are submerged); and
WHEREAS, the applicant is requesting a General Plan Amendment to change the land use
policies for the project site from port use in order to be consistent with the "San Francisco Bay Area
Seaport Plan", referred to hereafter as "Seaport Plan" designation by amendment to Policies 2.8b,
2.8.c; and related General Plan text and to realign the designation of a public open space trail on the
General Plan Diagram; and
WHEREAS, the proposal for a General Plan Amendment is part of an application which also
includes a Rezoning, a Planned Development and a Development Agreement;
WHEREAS, the westerly portion of the subject property is located in a M -1 -PD, Intermediate
Industrial (Manufacturing), Planned Development Zoning District; the easterly portion is located in
a M -2, General Industrial (Manufacturing) District; and the water portion north of the site is located
in an E, Estuary Zoning District; and the applicant has requested a rezoning of the land and the
westerly half of the Alaska Basin water area of the site to Commercial Manufacturing (C -M) Zoning
District with a Planned Development (PD) Overlay, and
WHEREAS, the application was accepted as' complete on July 18, 1997, and plan revisions
were accepted on August 18, 1997 and;
WHEREAS, the subject property is designated General Industry with a Parks and Public
Open Space Corridor on the General Plan Diagram; and
WHEREAS, on September 16, 1997 the City Council of the City of Alameda considered
Mitigated Negative Declaration, IS -97 -2 with Mitigation Monitoring Program and findings and
adopted the Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring Program; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Board held a public hearing on this application on August 28,
1997, and examined pertinent maps, drawings, and documents in connection with the application;
and recommended to the City Council approval of the General Plan Amendment; and
WHEREAS, on September 16, 1997 the City Council of the City of Alameda held a public
hearing on this application and examined pertinent maps, drawings and documents in connection
with the application; and approved the General Plan Amendment;
WHEREAS, the City Council has made the following finding:
The City Council has been advised that subject to meeting City standards and
requirements, the proposed General Plan amendment would substantially conform
to the adopted Community Improvement Plans (CIP) for the Business and Waterfront
Improvement Project and the West End Community Improvement Project and the
General Plan policies incorporated by reference within the CIPs; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has made the following findings relative to the General Plan
Amendment:
The proposed General Plan text and diagram amendments are consistent with the
intent of the General Plan' which designates the project site for General Industry and
Parks and Public Open Space. This designation permits a broad range of industrial
and commercial uses with provisions for shoreline public access, including the type
of use proposed by the project.
2. The proposed General Plan text, and diagram amendments will have no significant
adverse effects on the environment, as indicated in the Mitigated Negative
Declaration.
The proposed General Plan text, and diagram amendments will have no significant
adverse effects on the general welfare of the community because they will facilitate
development of a currently underutilized site with a research and development
campus.
4. The proposed General Plan text, and diagram amendments are necessary to enable
the appropriate development and maintenance of property in the City because they
will facilitate development of a currently underutilized site with a research and
development campus..
5. The proposed General Plan text, and diagram amendments are in the public interest.
The amendments would recognize that the site is no longer designated for a port use
in the regional Seaport Plan, and would allow redevelopment of the site with a more
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appropriate use consistent with the adjacent Marina Village Business Park, and that
will increase tax revenues to the City and provide substantial public amenities.
6. The text amendment to Polices 2.8b and 2.8c would allow the General Plan to
conform to the Bay Conservation and Development Commission's and Metropolitan
Transportation Commission's Seaport Plan by reflecting the plan's deletion of the
project site as a port priority use area.
7. The General Plan Diagram amendment to realign the public open space trail to the
shoreline would maintain and enhance the General Plan's objective of providing open
space adjacent to the Estuary, and would allow a direct link to and continuation of
the Bay Trail on the project site.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Alameda approves
of General Plan Amendment, GPA -97 -01 as follows:
Page 37.
Encinal Terminals Area: Alameda Belt Line Railroad and Encinal Terminals depend on
and are depended upon by five industries that have been in Alameda for many years and have
indicated their intention to stay (Weyerhauser, Del Monte, Pennzoil, Alameda Liquid Bulk
and Georgia- Pacific). To shield such sites from pressures for commercial - residential
conversion, the Seaport Plan prepared by the Bay Conservation and Development
Commission (BCDC) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) has
designated Berths 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Encinal Terminals as a Port Priority Use Area.
Page 39.
2.8.b Maintain existing and potential bulk cargo seaport capacity at Berths 1, 2, 3 and 4 of
Encinal Terminals and Alameda Gateway consistent with the Seaport Plan prepared
by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Bay Conservation and
Development Commission.
2.8.c Support continued operation of manufacturing and distribution industries using
seaport and rail facilities. Berth 5 of Encinal Terminals is not included in this
Seaport area.
The General Plan Diagram shall be amended to realign to realign the Bay Trail by
amendment of the Parks and Open Space designation on the General Plan Diagram from the
western side of the project site to the shoreline.
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NOTICE. No judicial proceedings subject to review pursuant to California Code of Civil
Procedures Section 1085 may be prosecuted more than ninety (90) days following the date of a
decision by the City Council, or any final action on any appeal, plus extensions authorized by
California Code of Civil Procedure Section 1085.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing
Resolution was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Council
of the City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the 16th
day of September , 1997, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, DeWitt, Lucas
and President Appezzato - 4.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: Councilmember Kerr - 1.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of said City this 17th day of September , 1997.
Diane t1e1sch, City Clerk
City of Alameda