The Eden Area MAC met on November 14, 2025, at 6:00 PM. The agenda included an update on the Lorenzo Theater restoration, a proposed General Plan amendment to comply with Senate Bill 1425 (open space), and presentations on the Bayfair Priority Sites Technical Assistance (PSTA) and Community-Based Transportation Plan (CBTP). The council also approved the October minutes with corrections, adopted the 2026 meeting schedule, and received community input on several topics.
No consent calendar was presented. The council considered and approved the minutes from October 14, 2025, after multiple corrections were made (see Key Outcomes).
Jamie Orfanos (Alameda County Economic and Civic Development) presented the $17.5 million restoration, funded primarily by insurance with county contributions. Key points:
Allie Abers (Planning Department) presented proposed amendments to the open space element to comply with SB 1425. The analysis found existing policies already satisfy state requirements for equitable access, climate resilience, and rewilding. The amendment creates an appendix cross-referencing 38+ policies from various plan elements. No substantive policy changes. CEQA exemption applies. The council voted to forward the amendment to the Planning Commission with a recommendation for adoption.
Angelica Gonzalez and Dominic Lucesi (Planning) presented two interrelated efforts:
Good evening, everyone. We can start right at six tonight. Um we have Coro. So we can call the meeting to order. And Lila can take roll. Got it. Councilmember Asin Nilson. Councilmember Marmahuka. Here. Sorry. Maramahoka. Correction. No problem. Councilmember Roll. Here. Councilmember Stanley. Councilmember Cushman. Council mean chair, well, I think. Sorry. Thank you. If we can all stand for Pledge of Allegiance, please. Okay. Okay. Now the right at the beginning of the meeting, we will open this up for public announcements or comments. And we might have some people online and we have some people here. So we'll let Lila see. Officer Jen Pabst. Hi, good evening. I'm here just to give a quick update. Hopefully, I'll get on the agenda here pretty soon. I'm not sure when my next date is, but I look forward to presenting for a longer period of time. Uh October, we've been very busy in the Eden area. We issued 334 traffic citations. We towed and stored 42 vehicles. We had 21 DUI arrests, three felony arrests, and two other misdemeanor arrests. There were 47 non-injury crashes, which is about average, as well as 28 injury crashes. And we recovered two stolen vehicles, one with a driver and one that was abandoned. Some traffic complaints that we've been addressing, Sunset and Royal. I received that complaint for the new stop sign that was just put in and people were not obeying and coming to a complete stop. We went out there and seemed to have impacted the uh vehicles failing to stop. They now are all stopping. Not all of them, but most of them are stopping. Blossom in Meekland, we received a traffic complaint regarding speeding vehicles. And we've been out there in the morning issuing citations and noticed an issue throughout the community in the 25 mile per hour zone. So our special enforcement unit is out there monitoring and making enforcement stops as necessary. Two other places that we are working on is Grant at Via Seiko during school zone hours and East 14th in Ashland. We're continuing to patrol that area for vehicles parked in the bicycle lanes. And Hayward led the state again in enforcement contacts as well as DUIRS. We were able to arrest 24 DUI drivers in a 12-hour period, which is pretty alarming if you think about it that we were able to arrest that many people in such a short amount of time. But we're proud to serve our community and make everyone safer.