Good evening, everyone.

It is Tuesday, May 26th, 7 p.m., and we're going to begin uh Alameda's planning board meeting for tonight.

Board member Wayne, would you lead us into allegiance?

And we got the justice for all.

Great.

Thank you.

And the first agenda item is roll call.

Yes.

Good evening.

Board member Hom.

Here.

Board Member Sue.

Here.

Board Member Ariza.

Present.

Board Member Wang.

Here.

Board Member Seva.

Present.

And President Cisneros.

Here.

Great.

We have a quorum.

Board Member Ruiz is absent.

Okay.

Thank you.

Noted.

The next agenda item or agenda changes.

Do we have anything from staff of the board?

No.

None.

Okay.

We'll go ahead and move on to non-agenda public comments.

Anyone in the audience may speak on an item that's not already listening tonight's agenda for three minutes.

Do we have any speakers?

We do.

We have a non-agendized public comment from Zach Thayer.

Okay, great.

And I'm so sorry.

I forgot to do my little preclaimers as you're making your way up.

I just want to remind folks, both here in the room and online, that to please listen respectfully to those who are speaking and letting the planning board conduct our business.

We have legislation, for example, PENACO, penal code section 43.

That says this criminal offense to disturb when there's any disruptions.

So just a quick reminder about that.

And thank you.

You may begin your public comment.

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Do we have any other public speakers?

It does not appear we have any other non-agendized public comment.

Okay, great.

We'll go ahead and close that item agenda.

Item four is consent calendar.

Um we have a few different items.

Um I was thinking we go through each one, see if there's any discussion, open up for public comment and then move on to the next one.

That sounds good to everyone.

Okay.

Do we have any abstentions for 4A before?

No.

Okay.

Any discussions?

I just have a question.

Um so for A is um for a project that is fully complete, including all of its obligations to the city.

Is that right?

Yes.

Okay.

So I noticed in the development agreement that the term is sort of set as indefinite, and that until until terminated, basically.

So is there any?

I guess the question that I had was what value we continue to get out of annual reports if the project's completed.

Right.

So this is the final report.

It's the final one.

Yeah, we had to issue the um certificate of completion, I believe, or compliance completion, I think.

Um and so that happened since the last review.

And that's when we all agreed that everything had been done and there was no more action on the DA.

So this is the last review.

Okay, got it.

That was my that was my only question.

Yeah, great.

Any um other comments or questions from the board on 4A?

If not, um we'll open up for public comment.

Uh no comments.

Does not appear to be any.

Okay.

Um, do we have a motion on 4A?

Sure.

Um I'll offer a motion to approve the full consent calendar for A, B, C, and D.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, we wanna do all of them.

All right.

Oh, excuse me, you want to do one at a time.

Um, yeah, do it all at once.

At the end, I think you can go through each item, but then just do one motion at the time.

Okay, all right.

That sounds good.

We'll do the motion at the end.

So we have a motion and then we could just hold it.

All four.

Oh, okay.

For all through all the D.

Okay.

Do we have any um questions or comments on four B.

Um, okay.

Seeing none.

Then 4C.

The reshape.

See none, for D, the draft meeting minutes on May 11th.

Seeing none.

Okay, now we have we could open up for a motion.

We have a motion on the table.

Oh, um, I'll re-re-state my motion to approve the full consent calendar.

That would be 4A, B, C, and D, the minutes.

We have a second.

I'll say.

Okay.

All those in favor say aye.

I oppose one abstention or absence.

Absence, yes, and the motion carries.

Alright, and then I'll close agenda item four.

Next we have agenda item five A, which is to review a master plan agreement for the um Clement Avenue project.

Do we have a presentation?

We do.

Great.

Good afternoon, planning board members.

Um Tristan here from planning.

Uh, here with an item before you uh that is a master plan amendment um to the Alameda Marina Master Plan project.

This is a larger housing development in the northern shoreline.

Multi phased, several phases have already been completed.

In fact, the first phase, the launch, is constructed and occupied.

The second phase, the townhomes construction, just east thereof, is a bit maybe about halfway constructed.

There remains some units that are either pulling building permits or preparing to do so.

And then the third and final phase of this project is right in the middle.

That's the foundry, sometimes referred to as the RAP B building.

It's an additional 259 rental units.

It's previously got its approvals for design review, density bonus, all sorts of good entitlements that it needed to acquire.

And recently, as I'm sure the planning board recalls, the city began the process of amending its requirements related to affordable housing.

Sorry, just a little bit more background here regarding the existing approvals.

So recent amendments to the city's inclusionary housing ordinance have changed the proportions of units needed to comply with our inclusionary housing expectations.

These amendments went to the city council just last week for a first reading, which was warmly received.

And the ask from the developer is to comply with the new requirements of the inclusionary housing ordinance as it relates to the number of deed restricted affordable units required by reducing the overall number of uh deed restricted affordable housing units.

From 218 to 259.

And in doing so, complying with our new uh ordinance, which is expected to go to city council uh again next month uh for potentially approval approval.

Uh the amendment to the master plan would be predicated on the condition that of course the proposed amendments to the inclusionary housing ordinance would be approved by city council and take effect 30 days after their second reading uh prior to the sort of finalization of this.

However, in the interest of moving the project forward in a timely manner and keeping the sort of momentum that they've built going.

Um we were hoping to get the master plan amendment approved now and sort of condition it based on the action by city council uh for their second uh reading of the the proposed ordinance amendment.

Um covered all in the final EIR that was approved for the general plan as well as the uh specific Alameda Marina EIR and at this time we're expecting that you know the project is able to move forward uh this summer, hopefully, with the uh changes to the affordable housing agreement.

Um just a little bit of breakdown of the rental requirements as we've amended them in that ordinance or proposed to amend them in that ordinance.

Um you may recall during your time that there are actually sort of a couple of different options given to developers in the new framework so that they can opt for whatever range of affordable housing uh sort of buckets to put their units into uh that works.

And so, of course, the specific uh change for this project relates only to that third and final phase, the foundry wrap B, uh, and would only modify the affordable housing units related to that phase.

So obviously the constructed phases or the phases that are currently under construction would not be modified as a result of this master plan amendment.

And so uh with that, just in the interest of keeping things relatively brief, um I'm going to end my presentation, but uh, we do have the developer here.

If you have specific questions about sort of our development timeline and how the project's going, they may be able to answer those questions a little bit better than I can.

Um and certainly if you have other questions about um, you know, staff's expectations around the timing of the inclusionary housing ordinance amendment adoption, happy to answer any of those questions as well.

Thank you.

Great.

Thank you so much for the presentation.

Um, and just to clarify, um, the project applicant doesn't have a presentation, they're just available for questions.

But I don't think the our expectation was to give a presentation at this time.

Yeah.

Thank you.

All right.

I'll bring it back to the board for uh any clarifying questions.

Question.

Yes, board member Wayne.

Um I think I saw in the draft ordinance that the project is looking to break ground July 1st.

Wondering if either you or the applicant can speak to this status of building permits or anything necessary in the lead up to breaking ground July 1st.

Sure, so I'll I'll leave any practical uh concerns to the developer, but I can tell you that we have received their application for a building permit, the fees have been paid on that application.

Review has been completed for at least two rounds.

If I'm not mistaken, they're on their third.

Um typically these kinds of projects will have a number of rounds of review related to their building department um comments, right?

Um building code is not a simple thing.

These, you know, documents tend to be over 100 pages long, and so um oftentimes there are sort of a little bit of back and forth there.

Um, assuming they're able to address all of those concerns, um that that would be sort of the last hurdle they need to complete before um building permit issuance.

Okay, that's helpful.

Thank you.

Yeah, and I don't know if you'd like further context from the developer on that.

If there's more context, I'd love it.

Yeah.

Good evening, planning board members.

Sean Murphy Pacific Development.

I was gonna use the three minutes to to talk about the project, happy to answer questions as this board would like.

Um, but to address uh planning board member Andy Wang's question uh specifically, yes, the public work site permit has been ready to issue.

Uh so that portion of it for all the grading and site work is complete and and ready with Sarah Lee.

Uh we're actually in our fourth and final review of plan check comments with the building department and fire.

So expecting that uh in June.

And the intent is with uh City Council's unanimous approval last Tuesday, uh hoping to get the endorsement here for the master plan amendment.

It's absolutely uh for our intent to start construction in July.

So thank you.

And I'll speak briefly at during the three minutes if that's okay.

Uh do we have any other clarifying questions?

Uh board member Hong.

Yeah, thank you.

Uh thank you staff for presentation.

My questions actually relate to the building permit.

Um, the I'm you know I see condition number four requires an affordable housing plan, and um and it looks like the affordable units need to be identified as part of the final building plans, uh, you know, showing the location type and and uh size.

So has the building plans uh been revised to show the location of these 21 units?

Uh presumably no, I don't think they would uh revise those plans without the approval of the master plan amendment first.

Um so presumably they'll need to identify those.

I haven't submitted a preliminary plan.

Not for the building permit now.

Okay.

Okay.

But they'll be submitting it like after the council, if the council approves the five.

Yes, if this board were to approve it and council were to approve the uh ordinance amendment, then we would expect them as part of that amendment to their affordable housing plan to submit to us uh essentially a site plan that identifies the location of those units based on their de-restricted affordability.

And is that review of the distribution of the units done at a staff level?

It is.

Okay, okay.

Okay.

Just wondering whether that's still it.

Any other questions?

Uh yes, Vice President Adisa.

I I just want to understand the current requirement versus the proposed requirement.

Can you just walk me through that?

Yeah, so um I'm I I think you were present for uh a recent look at this uh ordinance amendment that we were uh we brought before the planning board for the recommendation to city council, and I think the the clearest way to remember is the table that we had looked at that showed the breakdowns of affordable housing units by what type of um affordability level they were at based on rental and ownership units.

Um and so uh if you recall the new ordinance amendments basically provide different pathways for compliance that break down that affordability a little bit differently.

Um so uh, you know, a project might say, hey, we're gonna provide more very low income units but fewer low and moderate income units.

Um whereas another project might say actually it makes more sense for us to do sort of an equal distribution of each.

Uh and so the intent of those amendments was to focus the uh inclusionary housing ordinance um creating requirements that developers can realistically meet, and also emphasizing the importance of those very low deed restricted units that are sort of critically affordable for populations that um might not otherwise be able to afford this type of housing, and also because the uh moderate deed restricted income units uh had historically gone vacant for long durations of time and did not sort of achieve the outcome that we would expect with deed restricted affordable units.

So that's sort of the the thinking behind those changes.

Um, right, but for what it pertains to this project, I guess what I'm looking at in the like.

We are changing from what's the current requirement to what is the proposed requirement?

Yes, that is what will happen as a result of the ordinance amendment that was recommended by the planning board to the city council for approval, and that the city council did the first reading of last week uh unanimously approving.

So that those requirements are are this is sort of the practical effect of those requirements changing.

Okay, thank you.

And uh just to add to that, the the current is 15%, reflective of the current 50%, and then um the proposed is what's been recommended, and yeah, we'll be hopefully I guess it sounds like approved by the city council in the upcoming June meeting with the final reading.

Okay, great.

Great questions.

Any other questions?

Uh looking around, seeing none.

Um I uh I was just curious, and I admit I apologize if I missed it when you were describing the timelines and things, but uh, where is phase two exactly?

What's the timeline for that being completed?

Uh the timeline or the geographic location?

I'm sorry.

Uh the timeline.

You said it's like in the middle of construction of phase two.

So phase two is the townhomes portion.

It's actually um being developed by a separate developer.

Um, and I would say roughly half, if I'm not mistaken, they're starting on building 22.

Um, and so I would say, you know, uh they've probably got something like maybe 40 or so units uh constructed, and um because these are townhome units, it's a little bit more diffuse.

Um as far as we're aware, conversations with the developer there.

Uh Risewell Homes has indicated that they intend to continue pulling building permits through this summer.

So we expect them to progress at a pretty good clip.

Okay, thank you.

And then um I am curious like what happens if the city council, like, I don't know, weren't uh to were to make some kind of big amendment to the final reading.

Like it just means that this project would stall, I guess, and yeah, okay.

I mean, I suppose there could be flexibility there.

It really depend on what exactly they were trying to do.

Um, but the intent would be to do this uh master plan amendment approval conditionally based on the information that we have and are expecting to make it through city council.

Okay, all right.

Those are all my questions and um, yeah, with that, I guess we could open up for public comment.

Great.

Our first speaker is Sean Murphy.

Good evening again, Plague Board Member Shaw Murphy.

So I just want to appreciate all the hard work that this planning board has done over the past year of uh to study the important inclusionary housing ordinance revision.

Last week's city council unanimous approval is an acknowledgement of the critical shortage of housing that we have on the island and it sets forth a path to build more housing.

Every project is different, and optionality is critical, which was outlined in that table.

So that each project can navigate how best to deliver housing to the island.

We delivered the launch project in 2023, consists of 368 units, and we are here to move forward with the foundry project, which is the last component of the master plan, which totals 260 units.

We secured all the entitlements, and then that final stage of the fourth round of plan check for the building department.

Foundry is not your typical project, typical infill.

This project is development of significant bay trail improvements, environmental remediation, both fee simple and tide land, deep soil stabilization, sea level rise protection, adjacent commercial parking lot to support the maritime core and important public open space.

We plan to build the project utilizing option three, which is the equivalency of an eight percent very low, which is 50% uh AMI, and that will deliver 21 very low income units to the island, which are in critical need today.

The master plan amendment uh is to adopt the inclusionary ordinance and apply it to this master plan, and that amended master plan will therefore include 44 very low income units, 19 low income units, and 32 moderate units in its totality for the master plan.

But what it most importantly does is allows the foundry project to move forward.

There is urgency from our point of view because as we all read the newspaper, inflation keeps rising, construction costs keep rising, delaying of this project will only do one thing, render it infeasible.

We are truly shovel ready, and we are committed to building the important housing project, and we appreciate the cities and the staff's partnership to build foundry.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh, if you are attending remotely and you'd like to speak, please raise your hand.

I do not see any further public comment.

Okay, great.

Um, I'll bring it back to I'll close public comment and bring them back to the board for yes.

Uh, if I may I have a question for Sean.

If I may, yeah.

Um, it's just regarding the marketing plan for the affordable units.

Can you describe by uh what process you go through to market these units and uh and screen the tenants and to the degree that you might focus the marketing on existing Alameda residents or workers?

Absolutely, and this is specific to the BMR units, correct?

Um, yeah, the BMR units, yeah.

Yeah, that's so for those 21 units, and I'll cite the example of the the launch project.

Uh the property manager that we have there is is Graystar property management, they partner with Rise Housing, which is an accredited uh affordable housing screening agency that works on the island uh to go through both working with in conjunction the Alameda Housing Authority to do both the lottery process, which is critically important, uh, and then the screening and approval process, collecting all of that information again.

This particular project, once implemented through the inclusion housing ordinance revision and implemented through the master plan amendment, will be 21 very low.

So those are folks who are 50% AMI, and they'll have to meet all that criteria.

So it is a rigorous process that both the Alameda Housing Authority and then RISE housing goes to screen all of those applicants to make sure that uh they are qualified, and then clearly the housing will be ready for them to move in.

Okay, okay.

Thank you.

Is there currently a waiting list already?

There is.

Yes.

And and again, it should be noted that through the the year of workshops.

I think a total of three workshops from this planning board plus the subcommittee, and then workshop at the city council on the approval.

There is a large uh lottery, both for lows and and very lows, but really we see uh critically, you know, the the critical need for housing is in the rental, it's the very low, yet the for sale, which we're not building, it's actually the opposite.

Their focus is really the moderate need.

So that's why that optionality was really important in that inclusion housing ordinance.

Okay, no, thank you.

Great.

Um, any other questions or discussion from the board?

Okay, seeing none.

Then uh do we have a motion?

Other public comment.

We close public comment.

You did, okay.

I can move to approve.

Great.

We have a second.

Oh go ahead.

Yeah.

All right, board member Sue B.

Um, board member Hong by half a second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

And one absence.

And the motion moves.

Great.

Um yeah.

Thank you so much.

Uh, this is a really um exciting project and addition to the community, and very important for our housing element progress, and just very much agree with the sentiments of what the project applicants said, and um was able to listen to some of the city council discussion.

So really appreciate the leadership of staff and others for um helping us inch closer to our housing requirements.

So thank you.

Moving on, uh agenda item five is closed.

We'll move to staff communications.

Yes, um, in your packet, you had a list of recent actions, um, and so that includes uh several uh zoning administrator items.

We had two hearing items about a week and a half ago.

So we're seeing a little bit of economic activity, uh, one on Webster and one on Lincoln, reusing existing vacant buildings.

So that's good.

Um, and then we had five um other staff level um approvals related to residential remodels primarily.

Um we're keeping busy with those as well.

Uh upcoming items that I wanted to mention, we will have the second reading of the inclusionary ordinance at the city council next week, and then as Tristan mentioned, there'll be a 30-day um waiting period before that takes effect.

Um then uh we're looking forward to um keeping you busy in June and July.

We've got several items coming with the uh workshop on the main street um specific plan area at Alameda Point.

Um something related to ADUs, short-term rentals and the commercial zoning districts on park and webster.

Um, so we're using this slight lull in the development cycle to uh catch up on some other important work.

Great, thank you for that report.

Um, yeah.

Implementation of all the policies is really important, so thank you for that.

All right.

No other comments on agenda item six.

Um, first, I guess I should check.

Do we have any public comment speakers for it before we close it?

Don't appear to be any public comment.

Okay, great.

Then we'll move on to board communications.

Looking around.

I did um receive an email of some sad news.

Uh Christopher Buckley, who's uh been a prominent figure in the Alameda community.

Um he is a resident, city planner, preservationist, tree advocate, musician, and generous civic friend passed away on May 12, 2026.

I know he's um uh been very active in the community and come to our meetings a lot.

And so in case folks didn't see the that news in their inbox, um, I do encourage you to um take a look.

Um his uh funeral will be held uh on Saturday, June 13th in Oakland.

So just uh want to share that news and um yeah, it's it's uh very tragic and sad, and much um uh thoughts and wishes um go to out to his family.

So um and with that, um we'll go ahead and close any other comments or word communications?

If not, then we'll move on to the next agenda item, non-agenda public comments.

Those in the room or online could speak for three minutes for anything that wasn't on the agenda tonight.

We have any speakers, please raise your hand if you wish to speak.

None online.

Um, Mr.

Thayer, did you wish to speak on non-agendized public comment?

You've completed your comments?

Great.

Thank you.

No further comments.

Okay, great.

Um it's 7 34 p.m.

and we are adjourned.