in a and you guys are now live all right great well thank you everyone welcome to planning board meeting december 13th 2021 uh we are going to start with the flag salute um vice president ruiz could you please lead us sure i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which he stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you um alan could we have the roll call please absolutely um president seheba present uh board member cisneros here curtis here i don't see board member hum present um board member rottenberg here ruiz here and teague present oh and there is board member home we have a quorum all present okay great thank thank you alan uh can we go to well we're gonna go to number four agenda changes and discussion does anyone have any um comments on the agenda yes vice president um i recommend moving um i agenda item 7c to the beginning of the regular agenda item okay so um seems that we would first tackle uh the public hearing on the bay port alameda landing master plan move that up uh to to the first item for the regular agenda does um do i have a second or discussion on that everyone's i don't know if we got i seconded okay great all right so why don't we do that um and uh alan let's make note of the change oh yeah well it's called a rocal vote uh sure president seheba i cisneros i rottenberg aye ruiz and teague aye so that motion passes so we'll hear item seven c at the beginning of the regular agenda items okay great um any other uh does anyone have anything else for board discussion uh i i actually have one thing just to start it off more on a somber note um i know that i'm sure all of us know uh alameda county supervisor wilma chan um passed away a little while back um by getting fatally hit at an intersection um uh here in alameda and it just uh for me at least it it comes close to um my own family just because we know um her family pretty well i didn't know um supervisor chan as well but uh her grandson and my son you know grew up together here in alameda and uh does sadden our family quite a bit i think that one of the things that you know i know that we talk a lot about how to make these intersections more safe and um you know knowing that also where you know how how how much time and effort it takes for us to move this forward you know i i i think regardless of um who who gets impacted this is is something that i think we need to continue to focus on and get to a place where we could make our streets more safe um personally you know uh supervisor chan was entering another period in her life and was looking forward to um retirement and all the things that came with that and so it it is uh sort of a uh challenge and and um definitely a level of sadness for her family that um this occurred when it when it did so anyways i just wanted to mention that to the group and um just uh yeah convey my my own condolences for for the family okay um with that let's let's move on to uh oral communications anyone may address the board on a topic not on the agenda in the site um under this item has anyone submitted a speaker's or raised their hand currently we have 10 of the attendees and no one is raising their hand no one's raising their hand okay um move on to the consent calendar um

Okay, um with that, let's let's move on to uh oral communications.

Anyone may address the board on a topic not on the agenda in the site um under this item.

Has anyone submitted a speaker's or raised their hand?

Currently we have 10 of the attendees and no one has raised their hand.

No one's raising their hand.

Okay.

Um move on to the consent calendar.

Uh there was one item under here, which is basically the planning board regular meeting schedule for 2022.

Uh I don't know if there's any other further discussion on that, but I think everyone received that.

So there's I I move approval of the consent calendar.

Okay.

Any seconds.

Second.

Okay.

So we have a second.

Um from was that board member Rothenberg?

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay, great.

Uh so I don't we go ahead and vote.

President Sehepa.

Aye.

Board member Cisneros.

Hi.

Curtis.

I Rothenberg.

Aye.

Vice President Reese.

Aye.

And T.

Aye.

And that motion passes unanimously.

Okay, great.

All right.

So let's move on to our regular agenda items.

As we said, we'll start with 7C.

Public hearing to consider amendments to the Bay Port Alameda Landing Master Plan.

Uh is there a presentation on this item?

Um, yeah, I'll uh this is Andrew Thomas, planning director.

I'll introduce the item.

Um, I just texted Bill Sadler from Polte Homes um to let him know that you've moved the item up on the agenda.

So I hope Bill is either with us or is coming soon.

Um and um I see Mr.

Sadler in the attendees list.

So if we need to ask and promote it.

Hey, Alan, can I ask you a favor too?

I I didn't um pull get the drawings from the packet in case there's any questions.

I don't need it for the presentation, but in case there's questions, um so uh the item before you is a um a question about whether the city should change a requirement for the development on the Alameda Landing waterfront.

The master, the Alameda Landing waterfront is currently under construction.

There's a four and a half acre park um that's being built um that will be a city park, and then there's the 556 unit Poulty waterfront development project, which is also under construction.

Um the the residential project has a requirement of 5,000 square feet of commercial space um to be built immediately adjacent to the park at the park, and the site plan includes a 5,000 square foot lot essentially right adjacent to the park um at the entrance of the park.

Um te is asking the question.

Um, would the city like to change that requirement?

And instead of having the commercial space, um, have residential units, deed restricted affordable residential units on that site, and they put forward two options.

One would be, and these are using designs they've already have and they're building in their project.

So um there's a three-unit single family alternative, and there's a five unit multifamily townhome alternative.

Um staff is recommending that we keep the current requirement.

We think there's still value to the idea of the commercial space.

Um we acknowledge there is absolutely an affordable housing crisis, and we have a major challenge in front of us as a city of Alameda to adopt a housing element over the next year that will meet our 5300 unit arena allocation.