CIC Resolution 06-147COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA
RESOLUTION NO.06-14
REFERRING THE PROPOSED SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE
COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR THE BUSINESS AND
WATERFRONT IMPROVEMENT PLAN TO THE PLANNING BOARD
OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA FOR ITS REPORT AND
RECOMMENDATION AND AUTHORIZING THE TRANSMITTAL OF
SAID SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE AFFECTED TAXING ENTITIES
AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
WHEREAS, on June 18, 1991, by Ordinance No. 2559, the City Council of
the City of Alameda ("City Council") approved and adopted the Community
Improvement Plan ("Plan") for the Business and Waterfront Improvement Project
Area ("BWIP" or "Project Area"); and
WHEREAS, the Plan has been amended a total of five (5) times (as
amended, the "Existing Plan"), the First Amendment established time limits in
compliance with Assembly Bill 1290 (Stats. 1993, Chap. 942), the Second, Third
and Fourth Amendments amended certain land uses, and the Fifth Amendment
merged the BWIP with West End Community Improvement Plan (VVECIP), extended
eminent domain except over residential uses and added territory; and
WHEREAS, the Community Improvement Commission of the City of
Alameda ("Commission") is vested with the responsibility to carry out the Existing
Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Commission desires to amend the Existing Plan
("Amendment" or "Sixth Amendment") to update the land use provisions to conform
to the City's General Plan as it currently exists and as it may be amended from time
to time; and
WHEREAS, Section 33346 of the California Community Redevelopment Law
(Health and Safety Code Section 33000 et seq.) provides that, prior to submitting a
proposed redevelopment plan amendment to the legislative body, the
redevelopment agency shall submit the proposed changes to the planning
commission for its report and recommendation; and
WHEREAS, the Commission has prepared the proposed Sixth Amendment
to the Existing Plan which is attached as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by this
reference.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Director of Development Services is hereby authorized and
directed to transmit a copy of the proposed Sixth Amendment to the Existing Plan,
in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, to the Planning Board of the City of
Alameda for its report and recommendation.
Section 2. The Director of Development Services is hereby authorized and
directed to transmit a copy of the proposed Sixth Amendment to each of the
affected taxing entities and to other interested persons and organizations.
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SIXTH AMENDMENT
TO THE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PLAN
FOR THE
BUSINESS AND WATERFRONT IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
BACKGROUND
The Community Improvement Plan ( "Plan ") for the Business and Waterfront Improvement
Project ( "Project" or "Project Area ") was adopted by the City C ouncil of the City of Alameda
( "City Council ") on June 18, 1991, by Ordinance No. 2559. The Project Area is comprised of
one contiguous area containing approximately 900 acres and includes the Park Street and
Webster Street business districts, two neighborhood com mercial districts along Lincoln Avenue,
most of the estuary waterfront from Tilden Way to the former Alameda Naval Air Station (now
Alameda Point), the Civic Center, and the primary entrances to the City of Alameda.
The Plan has been am ended previously a total of five (5) times. The City Council adopted the
first amendment to the Plan on December 7, 1994, by Ordinance No. 2681, establishing certain
time limits in compliance with Assembly Bill 1290. The second amendment to the Plan was
adopted on June 7, 2000, by Ordinance No. 2835, which made site specific land use changes to
conform with amendments to the General Plan and Zoning Code. The third amendment to the
Plan, adopted on September 20, 2000, by Ordinance No. 2844, and the fourth amendment,
adopted on April 3, 2001, by Ordinance No, 2857, also made site specific land use changes to
conform with amendments to the General Plan and Zoning Code. The fifth amendment was
adopted by the City Council on March 18, 2003, by Ordinance No. 2896, and m erged the
Project with the West End Community Improvement Plan, extended eminent domain except
over residential uses, and added terr itory (approximately 123 acres) to the Project Area that was
previously included within the Alameda Point Improvement Project.
PROPOSED SIXTH AMENDMENT
The Community Improvement Commission of the City of Alameda ( "Commission ") is proposing
a sixth amendment ( "Sixth Amendment ") to the existing Plan, the purpose of which is to amend
the existing Plan land use references to refer to the City of Alameda's General Plan, as it
currently exists and as it may be a mended from time to time. No amendment is proposed to the
boundaries of the Project Area or the fiscal or time limits. The fiscal and time limits stated in the
existing Plan, as amended, for the Project Area shall remain in force as adopted.
The Community Improvement Plan, as amended by the first amendment, second amendment,
third amendment, fourth amendment, and the fifth amendment, is hereby further amended to
delete certain text and to add certain text to Section IV (A. — B., §401 through 411), Uses
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Permitted in the Project Area, and to amend and replace Attachment No. 3 (Redevelopment
Land Use Map) in its entirety, as follows:
IV. [ §400] USES PERMITTED IN THE PROJECT AREA
Deleted text:
A. E101] Redevelopment Land Use Mao
incorporated herein by reference, ill= ratec the I
S. [ §102] Dosianatad Land Uses
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1. [ §103] Residential Uses
3) for residential uses shell be used for the residential rec cet forthnd
described in the City's
specified in tho Housing Element.
2. [ §101] Commerce) Users
s 325 :nit exemption
3) for commercial uoss shall
al commercial, community
s.noso part ,
3. [ §105] Commercial /Residential Uses
3) for commercial /residential uses shall bo used fer the r
uses set forth and described in the City's General Plan and Zoning Ordinance.
1. [ §'106] General Industrial Users
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5. [ §407] Mixod Usoc
!a!, bucines ,
cs a 1d --epen c paseT
enerc! Plan, as-
amen
6. ( §408) Commercial Recreation Uses
7 [ §409] P rifs and Public Open Space Uses
s chaff, be-used-for-the parks and public we}}
3. [ §41O] Public Institutional Ucco
The eras eh
3) for public inctttittenci shall b
and described in the City's Genera; Plan.
9. [x111] Federal Facilities Uses
3) for federal facilities shall b
described in the City's General Plan.
Added text:
A. [ §401] Permitted Land Uses
The "Redevelopment Land Use Map ", attached hereto as Attachment No. 3 and
incorporated herein by reference, illustrates the location of the Project Area boundaries,
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major streets within the Project Area, and the land uses authori zed within the Project
Area by the City's current General Plan. The City will from time to time update and
revise the City's General Plan. It is the intention of this Plan that the land uses and
overall street layout to be permitted within the Project Area shall be as provided within
the City's General Plan, as it currently exists or as it may from time to time be amended,
and as implemented and applied by City ordinances, specific plans, resolutions and
other laws. Uses other than those designated in the City 's General Plan and its land use
map may be authorized by the City from time to time by amendments to the City's
General Plan as authorized by law.
B. [ §402] Reserved
1. [ §403] Reserved
2. [ §404] Reserved
3. [ §405] Reserved
4. [ §406] Reserved
5. [ §407] Reserved
6. [ §408] Reserved
7. [ §409] Reserved
8. [ §410] Reserved
9. [§411] Reserved
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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and
regularly adopted and passed by the Community Improvement Commission of the City of
Alameda in a Special Meeting of the Community Improvement Commission held on the 3rd
day of October, 2006, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Commissioners Daydog, deHaan, Gilmore, Matarrese,
and Chair Johnson - 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said
Commission this 4th day of October, 2006.
Beverly Johnsori;hair`
Community Improv n erit commission
Lara Weisiger, Secre
Community Improve m' ommission