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.

Upcoming events, we have the holiday enforcement period uh on Thanksgiving.

So our officers will be out on patrol from all the time, but more of us will be out there uh from Wednesday evening, November 26th to Sunday at midnight on November 30th.

Uh upcoming education, we have a start smart class at our CHP Hayward office on November 20th from 6 o'clock to 8 o'clock p.m.

If that's for our youth between the ages of 15 and 21.

If you know of anyone who needs to take the class because they need some tips on how to be safer as a driver, contact our office to sign up.

And as always, I'm taking traffic complaints at 345 reckless driving at chp.ca.gov or call our office during normal business hours 510 489 1500.

Thank you.

Keith Barros.

Hi, my I was I thought you said something about parking on via Seiko bike lanes or something.

I didn't think you enforced parking.

I was gonna ask a question, but you're gonna stick around.

Um maybe you can answer that for me.

Um but I wanted to mention that um uh my my traffic uh traffic beef is um uh with at uh Paseo Grande and Via Reba uh when we get when we get busy with the uh you know with the uh food with food vendors with the sidewalk vendors, I should say.

Um especially Saturday nights when it gets really crowded.

People are parking on the corner.

Uh they're double parking on the corner, the double, a lot of anyway, make a long story short.

Um I've requested that uh um through our supervisor's office and through public works.

If we can get that curb uh painted, the law is relatively new.

Maybe most people don't know, but you're not supposed to talk uh you're supposed to park within 30 feet of a corner, and people are parking on the corner and double parking in the corner, and people having to drive on the wrong side of the road and the pedestrians and the kids, it's the mess.

So um I requested that they paint the curb red.

Um the one that's heading on Paseo Grinded is heading east, right there, right there on the right at uh at Villa Reba because people can't come out.

It's a it's a mess.

So that's that should be happening.

But anyway, um, yeah, I want to know about the if you would answer that question regarding the parking and the bike line.

I didn't think you guys issued any parking tickets.

Okay, all right.

If I if I if I see another mess over there, I'll call you two.

No more speakers.

Sorry, this is uh Ali Abbers of the Planning Department.

Um I came to your committee, I want to say, like in the spring, um, and you took a motion to approve priority conservation areas, uh, including the entirety of the Eden area um to nominate those as priority conservation areas to um the Association of Bay Area governments.

Um the board of supervisors passed that resolution, and ABAG has since approved that nomination.

And I told you I promised that I would come back and let you know when um the funding that is associated with those priority conservation areas opened up.

So I just wanted to let you know that um the uh 2025-26 call for proposals for priority conservation area grants is now open.

Um so the grant cycle is throughout the um nine county Bay Area, so it's it's uh eight million dollars for nine county bay area, um, but the individual grants can be between 200,000 and 1 million dollars.

Um, so could be potentially really significant money coming to this community and the entirety of the Eden area qualifies um for these grants.

So I just wanted to let you know.

And I'd be happy to, you know, if you have questions, email me.

Thank you.

No more public comment.

Great.

Thank you.

Um next we'll do the approval of the minutes from October 14th.

We should uh be in our packets.

Anybody have any corrections or additions at this time?

We'll give you a couple of seconds to look them over.

Uh I had two.

Is that okay?

Sorry, I'm looking at the phone because they're on the phone.

That's right.

Go ahead, Taylor.

Uh so there was one where it said, and I have to get the page now, apologies, but um, this was under the and we were reviewing the cost allocation for the county.

There was a section where it said council member Aston Nielsen recognizes and acknowledged the ongoing hard work being done, expressed uh the need to be listened to and for the board uh to be uh the county's voice, the need for economic development support, and wraparound services instead of buy.

If that can be changed.

That is a very good question.

It is page five.

Sorry, I just did screenshots of those sections, and I realized after the fact that's not effective.

Uh okay, and then page six.

Um okay, so then there's a section where it says a motion was made.

This is our motion about everything that we discussed on that day.

We had also said that we wanted an analysis of prior spending in those specific areas, so I I would suggest that we just clarify because it says currently and an analysis of prior spending to be provided for historic reference, prior spending of those specific areas.

Good.

Um, did you is that did you catch those both?

Okay.

Um I have I have one, but this is just the personal thing because it makes me sound like I said something really stupid.

Which maybe I did.

Uh, it's under the chair's report.

It just says Chair Weidler uh stated appreciation for completing tonight's exercise.

I don't know, did I end out with, you know, efficiently or anything like that?

Does anyone remember?

Of course we must have finished it, right?

Or we'd still be here finishing it from last month.

Is that if nobody has any recollection of anything I said beyond thank you for finishing it, then we'll just leave it like it is.

Okay, I guess that's no, my recollection was I think you were reflecting on the experience overall.

Like, thank you for taking the time to allow this platform and the experience.

But Megan, you look like you maybe were going to go.

Yeah.

I recall you expressing your appreciation for um Chief Ridley's uh deputy to be there and to go through the exercise to solicit our feedback.

Okay.

So, thank you.

With those um corrections, is anyone might like to or right?

Yes, sorry.

No worries.

One more correction.

So on page seven, I did inquire about the correct address for the Eden area Mac on Facebook.

I'm glad that there's an address written here.

Happy to look at that.

I don't remember discussing that.

But what I want on the record is that the Eden Area Municipal Advisory Council page on Facebook is a page, it's not a group, and that's what it confused me earlier.

So for members of the public that want to sign up to that page on Facebook, it's acgov.org forward slash BC forward slash emac.

So I just want that clarification put out there for people to avoid the confusion I had when trying to find it.

Oh, I see.

So you're talking about a Facebook page?

Yes.

Okay, so do you get that distinction?

Sorry, Chair, it's Ashley.

Um that is not the correct address for the Facebook page.

And I think did you just say B uh BC forward slash?

Because it's BNC boards and commissions.

That's how you look up your body.

The Facebook page is just Eden Area Municipal Advisory Council on Facebook, and it is a public page, not a group.

Thank you for the clarification.

It is public, not a group, because that's what it slowed me down, and then Ashley to answer your question.

What I'm looking at says page, government organization, and then acgov.org forward slash BC forward slash emac.

It should be B N C, not BC.

Are you looking at the same sites?

Is that what you're doing?

I don't know.

May I come up and show you what I'm looking at?

So you're looking up the Facebook page for the eating area Mac.

Is that correct?

That's what we're looking for.

Thank you.

Sorry, it's my correction on the link on the Facebook page.

It does have that and it does go to the right one.

But when you look it up on the web, it's BNC for boards and commissions.

Okay.

So that could be why people don't find it easily.

Okay.

So where does the correction belong on the minutes?

Then Ray.

So page seven.

Right.

And there's an there's a web address listed there.

I haven't yet had a chance to look at what that web address is.

Okay, but what you were asking for at the time was the Facebook page.

Is that what you okay?

So the minute should say that you were referring to the Facebook page.

Is that correct?

Strictly speaking, yes, but uh Ashley, if you see what I'm looking at on page seven, if that's a valid page, that's fine as well.

That link on the Facebook page does redirect to the emac.alameda countyca.gov website.

So we will update the Facebook page.

I don't, I don't think that needs to be reflected in the correction of these minutes, though.

Okay.

And to answer your question, Diane, the current website is fine.

It's one of the two pages that Ashley and I were just looking at.

So as long as it what's there is fine, just add that Facebook page that Ashley and I agreed to, please.

Okay, well, that was tonight though, but at the time at the last meeting, you were making reference to the face of Facebook page, yes.

Okay.

That makes sense to you.

All right.

Thank you.

And citizens, fellow citizens and neighbors, please access that page.

Look at the information for our area.

Thank you for having it available, county office.

Okay, is that good?

Anything else?

If not, then uh entertain a motion to approve the minutes as um corrected or updated.

We'll make the motion.

To approve the minutes is updated and corrected.

Thank you, Megan.

Is there a second?

I second.

Thank you.

All right, then um, just have um Lila take the roll call vote.

Thank you.

Councilmember Aston Nielsen.

Councilmember Mara Mohoko.

Yes, council member roll.

Yes.

Councilmember Stanley.

I'm staying, I wasn't here.

Councilmember Cushman.

Staying.

Chair Whitler.

Uh I agree.

Yes.

All right.

Um, I just want to say I'm gonna move the chair's report up now.

Um, right before we start our regular calendar.

I don't have a gigantic report, but I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving since people usually leave before we're done at the end.

So um I just want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving.

And I just like us to think about and be thankful and grateful that we have this opportunity to actually we all of us to be able to work with the county and try to work things out on behalf of our area, the eating area.

I just think it's an you know important to realize that we have this.

I want to say privilege, but the opportunity to be able to work together and try and make our area better.

Um, the other thing I just want to say is I want to thank Ashley and um Selena and Tona on occasion when we get things wrong here or we hear things that are incorrect that um that they're able to give us the correct information, like we just figured out now with the Facebook page.

And I think they were working on trying to get a microphone at their area, so oh good, they have one.

So if I don't have to keep running up here, we're trying to get my attention.

But um, thank you for keeping us on the straight and narrow.

So everyone have a nice Thanksgiving when we're finished here, and we'll have a little break until our December meeting.

All right, so our first agenda item is that.

Yeah, can you do it when we we'll do the um council reports at the end?

Unless you wanted specifically, okay.

Yeah, I won't skip.

I just wanted to chime in and tell everyone happy Thanksgiving before everybody left.

Um, our regular, excuse me, calendar.

Um, our first agenda item is an informational item on the Lorenzo Theater on the restoration update.

And Jamie is here to give us that update.

Hi, I'm Jamie Orfanos.

I'm with the Alameda County Community Development Agency's Economic and Civic Development Department.

So that's a big long name.

Uh thank you for having me here tonight.

Naomi Morolio with Architectural Resources Group was going to make the architectural presentation.

Her daughter is in active labor, so she actually had to go to the labor and delivery room.

So I apologize that she's not here.

Luckily, this presentation is not so technical that uh I can't I can present it.

I present uh she was she presented it last week to the PRHC, the Parks and Recreation Historic District, and so um I've heard it once and I'm very familiar with the building.

And any questions that you may have of a technical nature, we can always follow up.

So this is just an informational item.

The Lorenzo Theater has been under rehabilitation since we had a terrible fire in June 2020.

Alameda County actually purchased the theater uh in 2009.

So we have owned it since then, and it was vacant, and we were just in 2019.

We were just sort of embarking upon uh the consideration of working with the developer and moving into some design to renovate the facade.

We just had engaged in a um architectural contract with ARG to just look at the facade, no fire, there wasn't a fire.

As soon as the fire happened, they had to pivot to working through the effort to um seismically reinforce the building and do all of this other stuff that had to happen.

So, first I'm sure you all saw it.

We had to brace the building and uh remove the debris, and then they seismically reinforced it, they built a new truss system, the walls were reinforced, and a new roof was put on.

Some charred wood repair happened on the inside, meaning wood that was charred was damaged, and so they had to cut it out and repair it to help support the murals, and the murals were not damaged uh very much during the fire.

So we're very uh lucky and glad for that.

Next slide, please.

And this shows that roof reconstruction and structural stabilization that happened between 2020 and 2022.

So you'll see the picture on the top right is basically what the inside of the theater looks like right now.

Next slide.

The intended redesign of the theater takes advantage, and because we have to we're able to rebuild the theater similar to how it was because this is primarily a fire um insurance uh effort, but we are able to bring the building up to code.

So we took advantage at that time to adjust some of the tiers of the balcony so that they're taking advantage of being deeper and allowing for reuse of the theater in um various ways, such as a banquet, dining, weddings, live music, film, uh all sorts of different types of entertainment.

So the balcony will continue to be there, but it'll be tiered a little bit more deeply and to facilitate um tables and things like that.

The area below the balcony, which is called the bowl, will no longer be a bowl in the sense that it'll be flattened out and it'll all be brought up to ADA uh code, and so it'll allow for future extension of the stage area to make it bigger so that live performances can happen.

So we're really trying to maintain a lot of flexibility in the reuse of the theater.

So we'll have the tiers, we'll have the auditorium area, the sort of the flat area, but it'll won't be a bowl, it'll be flat now.

We'll have this ability to extend the stage, it'll all be ADA, and then at the very top, we have a VIP area where the old crying room was.

So that was a room where you could bring your baby and the baby could cry while the movie's still going on, not disrupting the patrons, but still you could then enjoy the movie, and the projection room was there, but both of those areas got so damaged during the fire that we're taking that opportunity to now change that into a VIP area.

There's an elevator in the building and all sorts of goodies.

Next slide, please.

These are the exterior colors for the theater.

These are historic colors.

There's been a lot of investigation into the theater's colors, even to the point where they take a paint sample, and then they're able to sort of slice it open and kind of decide or determine all the different layers of paint that have been on the building over a period of time and go back to the sort of the original ones.

And so these are lovely colors that we have selected for the exterior of the theater.

Next slide.

So the ticket booth, the poster cases, those will all be renovated as part of this project.

So a major portion of this project is the insurance paid fire rehabilitation, and a more minor portion, but still substantial, is the county funded exterior facade because the facade was not damaged by the fire for the most part, and we had already planned this work before the fire.

So that will include all new neon and uh new rehabilitation of the marquee, the ticket booth will be renovated and sort of put back together.

Same with the poster cases that have been long since plywooded over.

Next slide.

The addition of a digital reader board is also part of this project.

So within the historic marquee, we are going to place a reader board in lieu of the static letters.

This is something that's happening very frequently with these historic theaters.

It is allowed by the historic building code and the historic uh the secretary of the state historic standards.

And what it does is it will allow a lot of more flexibility for future use.

So if something is, you know, a live performance by I don't know, any anyone, Kenny Rogers, and Kenny's coming to town in three weeks, it can sort of advertise that, and then there's a graduation for San Lorenzo uh, you know, high.

It can advertise that as well.

So it has some flexibility and can kind of go between those things, and it'll be visible during the daytime and in the nighttime.

The digital reader boards will be placed into those marquees as you see them there.

So we just wanted to call that to your attention.

Next slide.

These are just some renderings on the neon.

So the neon is being proposed as white for the letters that are along the tower of the Lorenzo Theater Tower.

So the letters calling out Lorenzo will be white neon.

And on the marquee, we're looking at a couple of different options still, and we're looking at some historic information that we have, and then also information we have about other theaters that are in the area, and trying to make a determination.

These are just some concepts.

The neon itself will not be the traditional neon that we all know that's glass tubes with the neon gas in it, but rather it will be replaced by uh LED.

It's not the sort of LED you have, perhaps in your home where you have a nifty little gadget and you can change colors and it flashes and it does all this crazy stuff.

It's really a replacement for the original glass tube neon, and it's just one solid color.

It's very energy efficient and long lasting, so uh and it also meets the historic standards from the state, and it's being recommended by our historic architect ARG.

Next slide.

This is a temporary mural that the Alameda County Arts Commission has gone through the process and effort of working with the muralist who did the overpasses, the the San Lorenzo overpass.

And so you'll see some of his similar style in this.

It's a temporary mural that will be on aluminum.

So think of like a sheet of aluminum that's adhered to the building, and then after two or three years when the it'll start to fade, and the Alameda Arts Commission will then remove it and recycle the material.

So it's just a temporary mural that will go on for a period of time.

Next slide.

This is just an auditorium view to give you an idea.

Lots of railing.

Now, with the bringing the building up to code, sometimes what that means is that you have to have some more precautions that we might have in the past, and one of those is railings.

So we have some of our original railings that did not get damaged by the fire, they're sort of right above the cross aisle.

You can see there they're a little different than all the others, and those are still existing, and then you have other railings that are being put in to prevent people from falling.

Again, to go back to the flexibility, what we've requested is that these railings that are below the cross aisle are movable, so that depending on the use of what's happening, if we're flattening out a bowl area with an extended stage or something like that, we can take that railing out for that interim period of time.

So that really helps with the flexibility and the reuse of the building.

And the next slide is just a different view.

After this, we have the ceiling reconstruction.

So, as part of this, there was a beautiful ceiling in the building.

It had some rain damage before the fire, but um it received its primary damage from the fire.

That's what the fire ate as fuel was it burned through that whole ceiling before it started to creep into the murals, and then it was stopped by then.

So it only went in about two feet into the mural depth or the height of the mural, and and it, but it did eat up this ceiling.

So the ceiling will be replaced, and that top mural decoration.

That's okay, that's okay.

And also the um they're called nemostats, they're the air conditioning or the passive airflow would come through those, but that'll be replaced with air conditioning because another code upgrade is that the building has to be air conditioned.

So you'll see those in the ceiling and then at the bottom right of the graphic.

Next slide.

This is a fun one.

Um, this is the sort of study, one of many things they've done, but this is one that's a good example to show you all of the mural restoration and the areas in which they've highlighted as needing major repair versus minor repair.

Um it also shows the black light version.

So under normal white light, if you have not been in the theater, or you're not super familiar with these murals.

In normal light, they just look like beautiful murals, painted murals.

And then if you shut off that white light and you turn on black light, they're UV reactive, and they have a lot of different elements that will start to pop out of the murals that are reactive to the UV lighting.

So that's really the significant element of these murals is that they're um painted by a very famous muralist, and that they're doubly unique because they're UV sensitive.

So those those are being repaired as part of this effort.

Next slide.

Oh, that's it.

So that is the presentation, but I'm certainly um happy to answer any questions, and if I could just give you a quick sort of information on what's happening right now, we've embarked on this second phase of construction.

It is with plant construction again.

Um, and they started in September, and they are anticipating completing the project in December of 2027.

If the Eden Mac would ever like a tour of the theater, we certainly would be happy to arrange that.

And we're really looking forward to getting through these next few months of like the not so exciting construction where they have to set up everything and do all this stuff that's like looking at the fountain working on the foundation of your house, you spend all this money on it and you don't get to see like something new and shiny, but then they're gonna get into the the pretty stuff and they'll be working on those murals and rebuilding walls and all sorts of things.

So we'd be happy to arrange a tour for the Eden Mac at another time uh that would work for you all, either um individually or in smaller groups, and this phase of the project is 17.5 million dollars.

Again, it's primarily uh insurance funded with a portion being funded by uh Alameda County.

Are there any questions for me?

I have some questions.

Thank you, Jamie.

Yeah, go ahead.

Um, once it's complete, who is the operator of the theater?

We do not have an operator selected for the theater, so it's owned by Alameda County, and um our next sort of step is to solicit for an operator.

So we will be putting out some feelers to see who might be interested in such a a venue as this.

There's still additional money that needs to be invested into the theater to get it sort of turnkey ready for an operator, but what we're doing now is really a tremendous part of that effort.

And then also regarding the ticket booth, I feel like you know, post-pandemic, lots of movie theaters have ticket counters all on the outside and no one sits there anymore.

Um is the intent for the ticket booth at the Lorenzo Theater to be utilized as a ticket booth was when the theater was built, or is it gonna be updated to I don't know, allow for how we use theaters now, which is usually with a phone?

Right, that's a good question.

I don't have an answer for you as to how we will use it in the future because we don't have an operator selected, but because it is a historic element, we're required to rebuild it.

So if we're touching that outside and addressing those various um things were required, and we want to rebuild it into its original um design, and how it's reused is a very good question you're asking, and we just don't know yet.

And I hope the intent that I would like to see is that it would be utilized, you know, for ticketing in some manner.

Whether it's sometimes the the old ticket booths are used the night of the event, okay.

Now the doors are open, then they're doing stuff there.

Otherwise, they're doing a lot of sales online, or they might have a secondary sort of location inside where they're doing sales.

And my last question was about the temporary mural.

Why is it temporary and what's the intent once the mural has faded to the point of being removed?

It's uh a project that the Alameda Arts Commission had initiated, and um it was just intended to be temporary.

It is on an aluminum back, it's aluminum with a adhesive backing, and they remove it and then they recycle it, and after that, the intent would be that the the wall would be a blank wall, but it's it's only a temporary thing because the mural fades over time due to the way they print it, yeah.

I guess the question was why?

Why it's over here?

I think it's you know, it was just a an exercise by the arts commission to do something enjoyable and pleasing to the public, but it's not historic to the building.

So doing it on a temporary basis would be sort of the initial thing.

If there was some larger desire for a permanent mural of some sort, that would have to be sort of discussed, considered, and even looked at with the um required historic elements and and nature of the building to see if it would be allowed.

Yeah, but it's not off the table, certainly.

Thank you.

Um Elizabeth, anything?

Is the intention for the county to just keep it in ownership forever?

I mean, is somebody the operator kind of seemingly like rent to you I mean I don't want you guys to go through all this and then sell it right I want you guys to have the final say as to what happens there right well it's it's all of our say because you're our public that we serve and this is Alameda County taxpayer money and this is a county building and so yes Elizabeth you are correct and that was uh that is Eileen Dalton's um desire as well is to have an operator and maintain this building as a county asset because of exactly the same reasons you said there's been a lot of effort and money put into this and uh the idea of sort of just giving it away not giving it away but you know sort of parting with it um is is more challenging than to keep it in the county portfolio so that's our intent as well and how that uh financing structure would work with an operator I'm not sure yet but we'll we will get there eventually but you're on the right path absolutely Taylor anything um I'll just say how exciting this is to see movement in general I hear this I've heard this for years now unfortunately I moved here right before it burned down so I didn't get to see it um but I hear people all the time in San Lorenzo say they can't wait to bring that life back to that corner and they're so excited so it's really wonderful to see this this movement happening.

I think we won it yesterday right and so I'm curious though along those lines uh can you speak to any communication that's been had about the um I and I don't know if you can but um or development or relationships in the surrounding area too because hopefully this will be something that really brings life into our city or more life and so I I think they're looking at this as a seed and then wanting to know how that will cultivate more around it.

Yeah absolutely and that's always been our um uh interest as well meaning to have the Lorenzo Theater be this anchor and this um center of the area and that's why the redevelopment agency at the request of its citizens advisory committee at the time uh purchased the theater got it out of private hands that was sort of they were pecking away at it little by little to get rid of anything that was ornamental and and lovely about it and to get it back into the public hands because it is such an important location and building for so many reasons.

As far as adjacent development and things like that, I know that we had the village green development that did not end up going forward.

That is as you know also much of the land in the downtown area is owned by the Bohanan Corporation or um organization.

And so therefore we don't actually have control over that but as we hear about projects we certainly want to let the MAC know and and planning brings those projects and things like that there aren't any that I'm aware of right now.

So there was a um there are a couple of tenants perhaps being considered for the building adjacent to the theater the the three tenant strip center um but no one has been confirmed as of right now as I mentioned the village green has gone away so I don't know of any specific developments that are planned right now in the area.

And and is that something that is um I acknowledge it's private property right so I was just curious if those are ever ongoing check-ins or communication because obviously it would be wonderful to have that opportunity to develop our community more.

There are ongoing check-ins we've been checking in with with Scott Bohanan and his team for you know 23 years um since I've worked here and now the Bohanan organization has turned over their uh their leasing and things to a sort of an arm of their business and we are coordinating with that person as well.

Yeah.

Okay.

So yes as soon as we hear something and it's public, we want to let you know.

Yeah.

And I know our community is very eager to to have those things move forward in all ways.

Yes, any um, you know, certainly with the drive-through ordinance that was modified or and approved, that's that that's very helpful toward you know incentivize developers to incentivize them to to put in certain types of development.

So yeah.

Okay, thank you.

And we would love the village green type project to come back.

Hopefully, with um, you know, as the economy uh finance rates and things like that come back, that'll it's tricky.

It's like if you build it, they will come.

Yeah, but you know, now with the rates, the interest rates, it's just yeah.

Um, but if you do come up with any other questions, please just let me know.

And like I said, if you would like a tour, you know, I'd be happy to organize that as well.

Hey, Warren, do you have anything?

There you go.

Got it.

Move this up a little bit.

Hi, Jamie.

This is Warren here.

Um, so I do want to start by saying that community is extremely important to me.

And I feel like as we move forward with this kind of project, um, the insertion of the community all the way along is really important to me.

So I'm hoping that uh there will be a return to this Mac, but also um finding ways to insert community uh throughout the project because I I do think that uh we need to build community and to Taylor's point, it's not just one uh one area of the community, but the whole community.

So it's you know, hopefully that will happen, and that extends to the Bohannans.

I'm hoping that um a way can be found for community and the Bohannans and the county to come together and have a conversation.

I realize that's a tall order and very difficult, but it's not out of the realm of uh possibility, and I think that's because you know, we we want to see a vibrant community in the Eden area, and so hopefully that will happen as as we all come together uh and and make an effort as as one community.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Cushman.

That's good to get to have you here tonight.

All of you have brought up such great things that I maybe just forgot to even include in my presentation.

So thank you for your questions, and they've prompted me if I could respond to this latest um these latest comments.

Um I forgot to mention, and this is a very important one that we do have a theater advisory group, and that theater advisory group is comprised of members of the public as well as members of the Lorenzo Theater Foundation.

So the Lorenzo Theater Foundation predates, you know, lots of things.

They've been around for quite a while advocating for the theater, and they join us along with other members of the public, and we may bring in um our Hayward area recreation district or others to sort of help provide some input on next steps of developing the theater and and what it will evolve to be.

So, yes, we do have community input in that manner.

We do like to come to the Eden Mac, give updates.

I've been here several times with updates just about the theater, how it's been going since the fires happened, and we will definitely continue to do that.

And as I responded to um Miss Aston Nielsen, um we do have continued conversations with with the Bohannans.

We're we have them on speed dial, they have all of our information.

We try to engage with them at any time we can, and in many different ways too, not just what are you doing for us lately, but more so it's sort of trying to bring them into um discussions about just general economic development in the area and communicate between our chamber and them and presentations to the public.

So we agree with you.

We we want to continue that partnership with them.

Ready?

Anything?

Only one question because everything else has been answered.

So thank you.

Um with your ongoing discussions and solicitation of community input, is that including parking and transit related options around the venue as well?

Yeah, thank you for that question.

See, um, the theater is a um is zoned a historic district, it's it the parcel of the theater, and it therefore does not require it's not required to have parking, so it can open up next week, whatever, and we can have that Kenny Rogers concert in there with 300 people, 400 people, and we're not required to have parking.

So the intent is that we would do one of two things.

There'll be street parking that's available.

People have to come from the neighborhoods and from the from the streets, or and or um we would work out a um shared parking arrangement with the adjacent property, the Bohan and property, and oftentimes that can work out if events are at night and they're doing most of their business during the daytime dependent on their retail sorts of activities that they would have there.

So that's how we would solve for that.

Okay.

But it is a little tricky because it doesn't have parking, but yet it's been allowed to exist without that parking.

I'm grateful to hear you're thinking about it.

So thank you.

Oh, thank you, Jamie.

I just had um one thing, what about Bertolas?

Is that still part of the theater project or is it its own thing now?

We have things happening with Bertolas as of lately, and we will we would love to come to the Mac and update you and we have more public information.

Okay, so it's not part of the theater necessarily at this time.

Okay.

Okay, thank you very much for the update.

And we have to.

So if and when we have any information, we will come back here.

Okay.

And I think we'll have some positive information in the near future.

Thank you for your work on that.

We'll have some public comment, so there might be a few other um things that you have to update us on.

Thank you.

Okay, don't go far.

All right.

Um we'll open it up to public comment.

Do you have speakers, Lena?

Okay.

Randy Wage.

I just have to come up and uh applaud Jamie for all the work that she's been doing.

I mean, the fire was five years ago, so it's been a lot, you know, and we're so happy about everything that's happening there.

And uh Diane would remember and Jamie would remember even like 10 years ago, you know, the the theater was completely closed up, and then we asked the county if we could open it up for tours, and we did that year after year.

And when you go in there, you're just blown away by those one of a kind black like Panther murals.

Man, thank goodness that they survived and that we are keeping them for future generations.

How important and great is that.

I mean, that's what blew me away when I went in there.

I grew up in San Lorenzo and I didn't even know those existed until we started doing the tours.

I mean, I went one time as a little kid, and they weren't even, you know, that lit up.

But you go in there and they flip the switch and you're like, oh my god.

So all these things that are happening in there, I'm just blown away, right?

The whole thing is gonna look new and but old, like retro.

And then it could be a catalyst for San Lorenzo.

Good lord, let's hope it is.

Thank goodness one good thing is happening in San Lorenzo.

And um, you know, Carol and I, we uh we go to different venues.

I don't know if you've ever been to the guild in Menlo Park.

You know, they have like standing room, you can have an an enjoyable concert, get a drink, all kinds of things, or maybe there's multiple businesses to come in there, but gosh, how exciting is all of this.

I mean, it really is.

So thank you, Jamie, ECD, Alameda County, the world, the universe.

It's it absolutely is a miracle, because we never thought this was gonna I mean I we hoped it would happen, but it's actually actually happening.

So please let's support it.

Let's get a good operator in there.

And let's have some good times in San Lorenzo instead of going other places.

Thank you so much.

Michael Moore.

Oh, thank you very much.

Um I had just a couple of questions.

Um I know that the drawings um are just renderings and not actual, and they're not architectural.

But it looks to me like there are a series of stairs and whatnot within the building.

And stairs and ADA compliance are generally very tricky.

And I don't see them reflected in the drawing at all.

Since I did that for about 20 years, I I think that the plan has to change a lot to incorporate ADA plans on the inside if you're going to use it the way it is.

And I know you said it was gonna be completely ADA compliant.

Um I don't see it there.

Um the other was that um I would urge um the Mac to very seriously consider um whether you really want to support no parking on a real draw, um, because if Kenny Rogers came back from the dead, there would be a lot of people there, and none of the residents, including Bohannan, would be pleased.

Um, so uh and I'm a fan of Kenny Rogers, so what the heck.

Um, but I think that I think that the usage of this facility needs to incorporate um and an upfront parking plan, as well as ADA compliant um parking to go with that because there isn't any where it is now.

Thank you.

Keith Burrows.

You beat me to the punch here on Kenny Rogers' funeral notice there.

Um, I just I had a couple of questions.

Um you can ask the Mohannans why they why why in the world do they close down Kavanaugh Licker?

I'd always like to know that in answer to that question how many years ago.

But I wanted to also know if you have a seating capacity uh an estimate, it looks like you have flexibility.

You've got permanent seats, and then it looks like you've got the uh the different uh tiers there where you could put in, I guess uh uh portable seats.

And I think if I remember looking at the picture, it looked like there was an ADA ramp on the far side uh as we were looking at the picture.

Um and if you had an estimated date of completion, uh, you know, some some idea.

Um but I what I really wanted to say was I I remember it was back in the sometime, sometime I think in the early 90s, uh at an unincorporated services meeting where people were tired of looking at the eyesore, and I remember Gail Steele, our supervisor at the time at the end of this.

Well, I guess I guess we'll just have to knock the damn thing down.

And the room broke out into applause.

Uh, we've come a long way from that, thank goodness.

Um there are a lot of people who uh who started working for the theater a long time ago.

I think two of the uh original members of the theater group, uh Diane Renella and Kelly McMahon, I think uh Kelly McCann, I think I believe they were part of the original group also, but some of some of the folks are not around anymore.

Um they've they've joined the likes of Kenny Rogers, um Larry Leal, the guy who kind of started this whole movement.

Uh he he passed away uh last year.

Uh Nancy Shelby a few years ago and Howard Beckman a few years ago, three of the pioneers and uh uh one who's well I acknowledge one person who's still who's still who's still with us but doesn't get around too much anymore, my fellow my fellow anti-veterinarian protest uh conspirator Kathy Reedy.

Um a lot of people that put a lot of effort into this over the years and a lot of different a lot of different ways.

And uh this is I'm I'm sorry that some of these people are not gonna be around to see it.

Um hopefully they can you know be looking down and seeing it.

And I'm I'm I want that I'd like to know that data estimated data completion because I'm hoping I'm still around when it happens.

All right, thank you.

No more speakers.

Thank you.

There's nobody nobody online tonight.

Oh, okay, nope.

No, thank you.

Um, Jamie, do you wanted to address the ADA?

I think you said there were elevators too, right?

Yeah, I'd be happy to.

Thank you for asking about the ADA, and we also have those same concerns.

We want to make sure that folks can access the building in its entirety.

The building has sort of a odd configuration, not as common, where you enter at ground at street level, and then you have to go upstairs through what's called the vomitorium into the theater cross aisle.

And so the way we're addressing that is there will be a lift from that area up to the cross aisle area.

And I think there are two separate lifts in the building that will facilitate some of that movement into those those smaller spaces.

There's also the elevator that will take you from the bottom floor, the ground floor, to the third floor of the VIP area.

And then there will be the necessary ramping, and I believe it's on both sides of the auditorium area, not the larger sort of flatter area, not the tiered area.

Two ramps that are being integrated into that area to facilitate movement as well.

So it is going to be fully ADA accessible.

And the building, I'm sorry, the bathrooms also will be fully ADA accessible.

And then the other uh questions that came up were the estimated date of completion.

So December 31st, 2026.

Where did we go?

Oh, did I say seven?

I said six.

Did I say seven before?

Oh, December 31st, 2026.

So it's an 18-month project.

And it started around September, so but it really they they their clock started in August.

So it's it's around December 31st, 2026.

We will oh good, yes, I want you to be there.

And we will likely have a couple of interim things that'll happen, and we'll notify the um Mac about them, which will be like a marquee lighting or maybe the temporary mural installation.

So if those things are happening before the big grand finale, we'll we'll have little mini mini celebrations.

And the other question that I think um came up was how many seats?

358 seated um seats, seats, but I don't know what the capacity is for standing room only, but for seated, it's 358.

And those were all the questions I noted, but if there's something else I can answer.

I think we got it.

Was oh okay, let me close public comment officially.

And I think unless any board members had anything else.

Thank you very much, Jamie.

Uh I just have to add, I did grow up going to the movies in that theater, waiting in line on Saturdays that are 50 cents, you know, to go to the theater and get a treat.

So I'm I hope that I live long enough to to see it when it's restored.

Thank you so much for all the work that you've been doing.

Thank you.

All right.

Uh next on our agenda is it's a general plan amendment to to comply with Senate Bill SB 1425.

Uh, this is an action item, and Allie will um present it.

It's regarding open space in uh unincorporated areas as required by state.

That's correct.

Thank you so much.

I'm Allie Abers with the planning department.

Thank you for hearing this item today.

Um, so this is a presentation about proposed amendments to the open space element of the county's general plan, and this is going to bring us into compliance with Senate Bill 1425.

Um next slide, please.

So just a little bit about the requirements of um Senate Bill 1425.

So this was uh bill that was passed in 2022, and it requires cities and counties to review and update their open space elements by January 1st of 2026, so uh just a month, a little over a month away, to address three separate topics.

The first is equitable access to open space for all residents, and this is correlated with the environmental justice element of a general plan, climate resilience and other co-benefits of open space, and this is correlated with the general plan's safety element, um, and rewilding opportunities, which is correlated with the land use element.

So rewilding opportunities, what are those?

So the next slide, talk about that.

So rewilding opportunities are defined in Senate Bill 1425.

They can include but are not limited to opportunities to preserve, enhance, and expand an integrated network of open space to support beneficial uses like habitat, recreation, natural resources, historic and tribal resources, water management, and aesthetics.

And then two, sorry for the extra two on that slide, establishing a natural communities conservation plan to provide for coordinated mitigation of the impact of new development.

So it's a fairly broad definition.

Next slide, please.

So the path to compliance is provided, was provided by the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation in guidance that they published just last month.

So we got the all of us jurisdictions in the state, we got our guidance draft guidance for this just a little over a month ago, with only a couple of months to go before the deadline.

So following this path to compliance, fortunately for the county is actually pretty easy.

So we'll be able to go through that.

So the first step to compliance as defined in this guidance is to understand the legislation and its definitions.

So we've done that.

Step two is looking at existing plans and programs.

And this step actually allows for jurisdictions to look at not just their own general plan, but other relevant plans.

So for example, a local hazard mitigation plan or an emergency operations plan or other types of plans that may exist.

For us, we actually only looked at our general plan.

And step three is evaluating those plans for compliance.

So once we've evaluated it evaluated them, step four is to identify gaps between where we are and where we need to be, and if there are no gaps, we can proceed to this next step, which is going ahead and integrating by reference those existing policies into the open space element.

So next slide, please.

So a little bit more about that step five A, what we do if we don't identify any gaps.

The compliance with SB 1425 into the general plan by referencing those plans that comply clearly and succinctly by ensuring that they're consistent so that the general plan is internally consistent.

It's a requirement.

Summarizing our compliance, so providing a concise narrative illustrating exactly how we comply, and then the legislative body, in this case the Board of Supervisors, adopting that integration by resolution.

The next slide.

So what we did was we conducted that analysis as required, and we determined that the requirements of Senate Bill 1425 are already satisfied through existing general plan policies and implementation measures.

And we developed a proposed appendix B that documents existing compliance and incorporates those relevant policies into the open space element by reference.

So if you are an Excel nerd, it's essentially a pivot table that takes all of these relevant plans from all or relevant policies from all over the general plan and puts them in one place so you can see them all together, but it doesn't change any of the policies or add any new ones.

So it's essentially a reference.

Next slide, please.

So this is a slide that shows a chart of each of the relevant plans and how many policies exist within those plans in each of those three areas.

So that was equitable access to open space, climate resilience and co-benefits of open space, and rewilding opportunities.

So in total, the general plan already has 38 policies throughout different chapters of the general plan that address equitable access to open space.

It already has 24 policies that address climate resilience and other co-benefits, and it has 48 policies that address rewilding opportunities.

And you'll notice I've I've highlighted on this slide five zeros.

So there are five areas where a plan or a single uh element within the general plan may not have any policies that address a specific topic area.

So for example, let's see if we can find so the Eden area general plan fortunately actually has 10 policies that address area one, five that address area two, seven that address area three.

But the East County area plan which covers uh the majority of Eastern Alameda County doesn't have any policies related to equitable access to open space.

However, as I think your your council is more familiar than most, the county did recently adopt an environmental justice element that looks specifically at equity priority communities and has in this case 16 policies that address equitable access to open space for equity priority communities.

So taken as a whole these policies comply um with the requirements of SB 1425.

See if there were any other notes I wanted to make on that slide.

I think that's it's good for now we can go back to it if you have questions.

So ROSA this may sound familiar to you it may not so there has been a a plan update in the works for over a decade called the resource conservation open space and agriculture element of the general plan ROSA for short.

And of course this is updating the existing open space element which was adopted in the 1970s and is still standing.

So ROSA has been on hold in recent years because we've had a lot of state priorities that have um risen to the top and we do hope that ROSA work will resume at some point in the future and when it does it will offer us an opportunity to uh to further comply with SB 1425.

So I just wanted to note that um that is uh maybe not a document that you're holding your breath for but in case you were um so a note on environmental analysis so um the amended open space element is not subject to the California environmental quality act um because it would not uh it would not result in a directly or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment and pursuant to something that's known as the common sense exemption where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question would have a significant effect on the environment next slide please so we are taking this um amendment on the full road show so we went to the uh agricultural advisory committee in October um Castor Valley Mac had some technical difficulties um earlier this week so we'll be going back to them in December your our second stop on the on the road show uh we'll talk to SNOL CAC Fairview uh planning commission in December and then um a couple of board committees and incorporated services and transportation and planning and we're aiming to go to the board of supervisors if all goes well by March 12th.

So we will be a little bit late with compliance but not too late.

Next slide please so um all of the draft amendments sequences of exemption meeting calendar etc my contact information are on the planning department's website that's acgov.org forward slash c d a forward slash planning forward slash SB1425.htm and that's it thank you so much for your time okay thank you um I see if any board members have any questions or comments for you.

Anybody have anything on top of their head that they would like to go first with Elizabeth hi I'm hearing a lot about planning and problems and I it's like oh we knew that was a problem we're already ahead of it.

Do you have any idea when any of these plans will come into fruition in terms of like rewilding or I mean I feel like we all know the problem and now someone else told you this is a problem you're like got it.

So now what in the future do you have any kind of time frame as to when these will actually be implemented some of these possible changes.

So I um I don't know specifically, I don't know if there's like a specific action or or policy that you're speaking to, but um I I guess I could I could mention um that there is related specifically to the rewilding opportunities, there's a really interesting um effort going on right now, series of meetings that have been happening over the course of a couple of years about developing wildlife crossings um across several of the larger freeways in mainly eastern Alameda County is starting um potentially around Palomaris, um so eastern Castor Valley, and um you know the county is actively participating in that process.

Um so you know that's just one example of some of these things that come up.

It's like depending on the opportunity, it's it's often sort of what comes up based on funding that's available, um, and based on in this case external partners working on it and the county supporting where we can.

Um so yeah, I'd be happy to add if there's specific, you know, sort of measures.

No, I just it seems like too vague right now.

So I'd like to hear that that there is actually a time where these will be, you know, for the good, right?

Instead of saying, yeah, it's not good, but you know, like you said, real life examples of this working.

Doesn't I have a question if you're um Megan?

Thanks.

Are we late in the board adopting it because we thought that we were already in compliance and we weren't gonna need to go through the process or why are we late?

Um why are we late?

It's it takes time, of course, for us to do the analysis, figure out what you know what plans already exist and whether uh whether we think that they do comply.

Um so it just took time to do the analysis and you know, as we always are, we we have a lot of a lot of projects, a lot of irons on the fire, and not necessarily enough time.

So, this is actually going potentially if if you know if this uh schedule works out um going potentially going through in record time, yeah.

Thank you.

Yeah, Taylor, anything?

Uh warned.

Um, there we go.

Okay, good.

Hi, Allie.

Um so one thing that I've perennially noticed is for people with disabilities, parks and open space are a challenge.

Um, access is a challenge.

Um is there anything in in this package that takes a look at things like trails or uh parks or um other kinds of facilities in the way of disability access?

Thank you.

Yeah, that's a really good question.

And I'm actually trying to open up um the appendix itself so I can do a quick search.

I don't know that answer off the top of my head.

Um there's a lot about access and not uh certain and actually um Dominic worked on this.

Do you remember Dominic?

Okay.

So uh Chair Cushman, I might need to get back to you on that.

It talks about access, you know, these these are existing policies, of course.

So it talks about access all over um the place, but it's mainly about trail access.

Um not so much about accessibility um as defined, yeah.

Perhaps uh I can meet with you and Dominic a little later.

Thanks.

Oh, I found one.

So there's a there's a policy um that is in the Eden Area General Plan, in fact.

Um, new and rebuilt, this is uh goal PR one policy seven, new and re rehabilitated parks in the Eden area shall comply with the requirements and standards of the ADA.

Um so that's an existing policy in the Eden General Plan that's cross-referenced in this document.

Okay, Ray, you have anything?

Um just a couple of quick things on slide 11 that URL link to your project has a slight typo.

Oh, thank you.

Good.

Um it's between the 14 and the 25.

You are correct.

It should be.

Um big picture, Allie.

I understand we're trying to be the county's trying to show compliance with a state bill.

So check.

Thank you for describing that.

Does anything change on the ground in terms of the existing plans that you are cross-mapping that you referenced?

No.

Uh so no changes to existing plans, and something that I meant to note and and didn't is that when any of these policies that were cross cross-referencing are amended, you know, edited, updated in the future, this document, this appendix A will or appendix B, I guess it is, will be updated in tandem to ensure ongoing consistency.

So this document doesn't um define future policy in other general plan documents.

It simply references them, and as those change from time to time, we'll continue to uh seek and ensure SB 1425 compliance in those documents and then cross-reference them here until such time as ROSA is adopted and we have a whole new open space element.

Do we have a so you mentioned Rosa being delayed for maybe 10 years, you said at least, yeah.

Is there a dependency on any of the existing programs for ROSA to get unblocked?

Like is it slowing down anything?

It is not.

Um yeah, there's there's the the block for ROSA is is simply staff capacity um and other competing priorities, mainly, you know, state mandated priorities.

Okay.

And then so big picture, there's no there's no change to what's planned.

There's no acceleration, there's no reprioritization, it's just compliance with the state.

Yes.

If we weren't compliant with the state, what would happen?

I do not know.

Um so we this is not um a document.

I mean, we we submit an annual report on implementation of the general plan.

We will report about this, you know.

If we achieve this um this amendment, we'll report about it.

Um but there is no stick associated with this.

Um the state could come after us.

Um, and I think if you know if the state came and asked us right now, we could say we're going through a process.

Okay.

Um, but yeah, there I think there are mechanisms eventually if a if a jurisdiction is deeply out of compliance.

Um, so no carrot, no stick.

Essentially.

Thanks.

Sure.

Okay, maybe my question's too specific, but it this says that um you're talking about the unincorporated area, basically, when you say Alameda County.

Okay, but it it also in your plan says other communities or cities that are would affect our open space.

I'm just wondering about Sky West, how it's the city of Hayward owns it, but they've taken out what was a natural, well, it was a golf course, but it had a lot of natural components to it, and they want to do like a business park.

A lot of people in our area, I mean, it borders us, right?

Um, want are hoping that they can get some kind of a trail that would continue through the unincorporated area along, you know, Grant and all along the shoreline, and then into Hayward and continue on.

So does this cover something like that?

Unfortunately, it doesn't.

Um I mean, I I think things like interjurisdictional trails could be something that you know that could be considered or looked at um as part of a comprehensive update to the open space element, but as part of the general plan, um, it's authority is really limited to the unincorporated area.

So what a general plan document could do uh is reference opportunities for collaboration with a neighboring jurisdiction that has control over an asset or a resource that that the residents of this community utilize, um, but it has no authority.

The board of supervisors wouldn't have authority to, you know, tell the city of Hayward to do anything in particular with Skywest.

So then it really doesn't it says it it says that it also applies to I think it says communities that affect us or neighboring, but it really doesn't then.

So I think I think the section that you're looking at is that um cities and counties are required to comply with this law.

So counties are required to comply for the unincorporated areas that are in their jurisdiction, and cities are required to uh comply for their jurisdiction.

Okay, not like an interjurisdictional component.

I see.

So they can put their open space over there and make ours end right here, even though ours used to go be contiguous.

Yeah, I mean, there's definitely uh, I mean, it's a really good point that people are using people are utilizing resources in other jurisdictions all the time.

Um, and so yeah, that's an argument for more regional planning efforts.

Okay, and then I just have this other question.

Those are probably dumb questions, but it's everything says that um sequit is never applicable.

But isn't this exactly what we're doing?

Aren't we looking at some space and looking at it to analyze it to make it more wild or more um, you know, environmentally friendly.

So aren't we actually always looking at the sequel impact?

So in in this case, um it is exempt largely because all of these policies are already adopted.

I hope so.

If it were looking at um, you know, policies that, like, for example, the climate action plan, which will come back to you, you know, probably sometime in the in the new year, um, is looking at policies that are you know that are broader and that will have environmental impacts, you know, in one direction or another, and there can be SQL exemptions for policies or for actions that are taken strictly to benefit the environment, and that's a potential reason for a sequel exemption.

In this case, we're exempt because these policies are all all already existing.

I know they they always say that it's never applicable.

Okay, that's that's pretty much all I had.

So let's open it to um public comment or questions.

Randy Wage.

I was just coming up here basically for what Diane was talking about.

Uh we are trying to save Sky West as an open space and rewilding, keeping the ponds because there's you know Western pond turtles in there.

Um, so it's interesting or it's kind of cool, I guess, that this is gonna go into our general plan, and we should be advocating to keep open space.

Um I mean, the the the sphere of influence of Sky West and the the airport, the they claim us.

So it does get kind of a little frustrating that you know, technically it's it's their land, but we're so close and all the houses along you know San Lorenzo along Sky West are affected.

So um anyway, I hope people try and think about it's so much better to have parks instead of giant industrial buildings that they want to build over there.

It's really gonna affect San Lorenzo when you have eight or ten buildings right behind the houses over there.

That's what they're planning on building, like really big things, and then a bunch of extra hangars.

I mean, do we use those?

So we have planes that we're gonna put in and hangers.

Um I just love that place.

So it it's uh it's so frustrating that the county can't advocate more for us to push or send a letter, any of those kind of things.

Mimi uh, you know, she's uh forced to be reckoned with.

Um she's actually at one of the airport meetings right now.

Uh, she even presented at the historic and park and rec committee, and they are going to send a letter to the city of Hayward advocating to keep that as an open space.

So we do have that.

Anyway, we need to keep pushing.

Uh we are gonna have another walk there, and the city of Hayward has said, yes, you can walk there.

Um what day is that?

November uh 23rd at 11 or 11 30.

We're gonna meet in the parking lot.

We're gonna walk over.

If it's not raining, uh, you can join us.

Maybe kind of does a self-guided tour.

Liz, you've done it.

It's it's pretty cool, it's pretty nice.

Anyway, thank you.

And I I trust Allie.

She's going through the whole road show.

The board of soups are gonna put this in there, you know.

You know, I can see it.

Anyway, thank you so much.

Michael Williams, online speaker.

Yes, hi.

Uh Michael C.

Williams.

I'm the Trails Program Manager for the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District, Hard.

And uh I just was kind of following the uh next item um with the uh uh Bayfair plan, but since these issues keep coming up about trails and access to open space, I just wanted to let the Mac know and the community know that Hart is definitely working with the county, we're working with the city of Hayward on all of these issues where you know it uh relates to parks, open space, trails, access, accessibility.

We're doing that constantly, and so yeah, we understand the airport and you know, Hayward has their kind of issues, but we are also advocating for open space, and uh we're standing by to develop whatever space we're given or is available for trails open space.

We've talked about interim uses, we've talked about other recreational opportunities, and so we're constantly on the lookout.

I work with Al um Allison all the time, so we're you know, I just to let you know that when you don't hear things necessarily, there's a lot of things going on behind the scene, and I appreciate the fact that you know the the topics keep coming up, and so I did want to let you know that kind of spreading, you know, uh straddling two jurisdictions um hard and its board and it's uh you know, general manager are constantly looking at these opportunities for the uh improvements that the community wants to see, what people uh want to see, especially in the unincorporated areas because we understand how that is.

So um I just wanted to put that out there, you know, say thank you for the opportunity and thank you for the to the Eden Mac for the work that you all do.

Michael Moore.

Thank you.

Could you pull up figure one?

Uh in the open or table one, it's the count of policies.

Um I was I only want to address the Eden area general plan.

And I'd like to understand what are the seven.

Oh, okay.

All right.

Well, I I was kind of hoping the rest of everybody else, I'd like to know what the seven rewilding opportunities are that exist within Eden, what the five climate resilience and co-benefits of open space issues are, and what the echo equitable access to open space is.

Um right now I I can't figure out what it is.

Um I read all of that stuff, I don't see it in there.

Um I think what it says, I think what this represents is whoever filled out the form was working from some notes, and that's what they put in.

I don't know what I don't know what the seven rewilding opportunities are.

Um, but when I look at the area that is reflected in the please speak into the mic, yeah.

Um when I look at the five areas of the Eden plan, I think we we know what those are, and they're not the other areas that aren't in Eden.

And so it sounds to me like well, maybe Ashland has a rewilding, and the other four areas within Eden have a rewilding opportunity so that each one got one.

That sounds reasonable.

I've been to most of those places anyway.

Anyway, it would be nice to know that.

I don't think you need to know it now, but it would be good to report back.

Thank you.

Kathy Rodriguez.

Yeah, I just wanted to ask a question.

It's not on this topic, but I wanted to know if there's public comment on other things that you guys talked about in the past.

We're only on item two.

Yeah, but do you have public comment though where I could speak about issue concerning Llewellyn Boulevard?

That's like you know, general public comment.

That's what I'm asking.

We we had uh general public comment is the first um one of the first things on the agenda.

So you kind of missed that um opportunity, but at any other meeting, public comment would always come first on things not on the agenda.

Yeah, I just popped in on this at seven o'clock because I don't know, I just went on the internet and okay.

Sorry, but try next at the next meeting, okay.

Thank you for attending this though.

No other speakers.

Okay, uh let me close public comment and I think Allie might have an answer for us.

I just realized that I uh forgot to deliver my last slide, which is the staff recommendation.

Um so it is in your packet.

May I do that now?

Okay.

So that recommendation is that your committee vote to forward these proposed amendments and the notice of exemption uh from CEQA to the planning commission again.

That's uh December 15th, with a recommendation that the amendments be adopted by the board of supervisors.

So I apologize for skipping that slide.

Um and and I, if I may, uh, in response to uh the the previous comment.

So um appendix B, which is included in the packet, uh goes sort of section by section through those three requirements, um the rewilding uh and and the other two areas, and within each of those subsections, um, the policies are divided by plan.

So the Eden area general plan policies are uh are outlined there.

So those are I can't speak to specific applications of rewilding opportunities or rewilding that has occurred.

Um that's not part of the requirements of this analysis, uh, but the policies themselves are reflected here in this uh appendix, which should be on the back table.

Okay.

Thank you.

So there is if we look deeper into the policies, we can find more specific information.

Yeah, the policies themselves are are in the appendix.

Okay, when you do find out to his point and my point about like actual real world applications of this stuff, then will you come to us again to give us updates as they happen theoretically or I mean I think to the comment that um that Michael Williams from HARD made, like those a lot of these efforts are happening on a continual basis.

Um, and I think some of the actions, you know, if there's a specific action that you wanted us to report back on, we certainly could.

Um, but I think things like you know, parks, development of parks, that's something that Hart is going to come to your board with every time.

And you know, likewise with other opportunities that come up that the planning department has uh connections to or the public works agency, etc.

Those those should all come through your your council.

Yeah, I mean, we're all for it.

Just seeing it actually happen later would be nice.

Okay, because this is ongoing.

This is like the way we will approach open space in the future whenever it comes up.

Yes, our general plan needs to continue to um to adhere to you know to these requirements, and so that the way that we do that may change over time.

Um, and when, for example, the Eden area general plan eventually is updated, it can look into how it specifically wants to address SB 1425 compliance in the Eden area with specifics uh regarding action items, etc.

So there are opportunities ongoing as the general plan is amended to make changes.

Okay, thank you, Ellie.

Um, anybody else on the board have any questions?

Okay, thank you.

So um what they're what Ellie's looking for is that we vote to this is in our packet, so we vote to forward the proposed open space element amendments and notice of exemption from CEQA to the planning commission with a recommendation that amendments be adopted by the um board of supervisors.

So, do we have any um motions or discussion go ahead and yeah i'll move that recommendation staff our recommendation thank you okay is there a second i would like to second it okay thank you then is there any other discussion before we take a vote um right yes you have something um i'm in favor of the motion i'm wondering if we amend it to add a call out about skywest what would you let's see what would you like to add just um with a recommendation that they that the county work with the city of hayward regarding sky west property yes that okay uh since skywest isn't in our jurisdiction i don't know if that is appropriate i'll look to tona for that answer if she will tona there i know she was emailing with another age so um but yeah sky west is in the city of hayward and not your jurisdiction so i would probably err on the side of caution and not put that in the motion here's tona i am on i apologize i was having problems with my mute button um it is in the jurisdiction of the city of hayward i mean you can either request that it be placed on your few on a future agenda and address it that way if you'd like um because you can have things that are uh outside of your jurisdiction but would affect your area on the agenda so we can talk about that you know or as part of your motion you know encourage the county to work with the city of Hayward right so we can do that encourage the county to work with the city of Hayward or it'd have to be a separate agenda item is what you're saying no you could do I think either or I mean Ali could really say if she could add that on but I'm sure she I don't see I don't know that there's an issue there I have something relevant that might might help with this discussion so um the the Hayward executive airport came up as part of the EJ element process and the board of supervisors did adopt a policy within the EJ element so the county's general plan to I don't remember the details of it but was essentially to uh collaborate with work with discuss with um offer to work with the city of Hayward and the Hayward executive airport to look at you know potential pollution issues that may be affecting the surrounding communities so that's an example of something that did go through that may guide your thinking or you have something on this sign there you I would prefer to have an agenda discussion around Sky West mainly because I am almost unfamiliar with Sky West and the issues surrounding it so I need education before I can support movement there.

So I'm gonna I'm gonna hope that we can discuss this with an agenda with an eye to uh agendizing it so that some of us can be educated about it.

Thank you.

Okay I think we probably could do that uh separately anyway um if I may we would need to probably reach out to the city to request that they attend a future meeting so we'll have to um talk about that further okay but we can still um have some kind of a uh addition or recommendation that that the county collaborate with um with the Hayward regarding the sky west project is that something what you said Alice.

I think she said it's already been done through another element and not necessarily appropriate for what's before you today.

So it's a separate kind of item, but it has been addressed.

I guess my interpretation though is that possibly then there's multiple avenues of discussion because we have that component that is applicable in our area, and Sky West potentially has impact in a number of ways.

There's the air quality that comes from you know, potential development there, there's rewilding, there's maintaining of the space.

So, could the many of you are new?

It has come before the map previously.

I think I've heard about it in other areas too.

Yeah, once or at least twice.

Yeah, I am actually quite familiar with it.

I've been to the space too.

It's um I can speak to it.

But what I I would actually ask this council is perhaps we can do both.

I think it's valuable for it to come again because it is an ongoing topic, but because it is ongoing, is there a harm in us also saying that we have an active interest and we would hope that that is continued to be advocated on our behalf?

No, but we should probably have this conversation further under our council comments versus this agenda item specific.

Okay, we can make an agenda item specific.

I guess I'm still not clear on whether we can make a recommendation.

I can I just I'm sorry, I feel like I must have misspoken.

I I wanted to clarify my point about the uh policy that was added to the EJ element about the Hayward Executive Airport that was uh sort of meant to demonstrate that it's possible um with you know with community comment um for the board of supervisors to adopt a policy that mentions um the impact of land that is outside of the county on land that is inside the county because the EJ element did that with the Hayward of Area, the Hayward Executive Airport.

So doing that potentially with the open space element would be comparable, is what I'm trying to say.

Does that make sense?

Okay.

So I brought it up.

So thank you, Alan.

Thank you, Tonya, for the guidance.

Um similar to what council member Aston Nielsen was talking about.

Taylor, I agree that we should do both.

So the the suggested amendment would be a motion to approve with thanks and continued encouragement from this board for the county to engage with the city of Hayward on the Sky West topic.

I am seconding Warren's initial motion to vote to forward the proposed open space element amendments and notice of exemption from CEQA to the planning commission with a recommendation that amendments be adopted by the Board of Supervisors, and if there's another motion separate and apart from that, I'm willing to hear what it is specifically, but I don't think I support what we just said exactly if that's a motion.

Okay.

So you're saying basically just go with this motion, take the vote on this motion, and then we can talk about later agendizing something specific to Sky West.

That's right.

All right.

Okay, well let's call for the vote then.

So the motion is though to accept the recommendation as stated.

Councilmember Aston Nielsen.

Councilmember Maro Mohoko.

Yes.

Councilmember Roll.

Yes.

Councilmember Stanley.

Yes.

Councilmember Kushman.

Yes.

Chair Weidler.

Yes.

Okay, thank you, everyone.

Um obviously Sky West is right next store to us, so it does affect us.

All right.

The last thing I should say the next thing on our um on our agenda is a Bayfair priority Sites Technical Assistance and um Bayfair Community Based Transportation Plan.

This is also an informational um item.

Good evening.

Good evening, council members.

For the record.

My name is Angelica Gonzalez, and joining me this evening is Dominic Lucesi, and we're both planners with the community development agency in the planning department.

Uh, as mentioned, uh this is informational presentation, also an update of two Bayfair related efforts, the Bayfair Priority Sites Technical Assistance, known as PSTA, and the Bayfair Community Based Transportation Plan, known as the CBTP.

Next slide, please.

So this slide highlights various Bayfair related efforts that the county is leading that are highlighted in blue and efforts the city of San Leandro is leading that are highlighted in the area in red.

So that are relevant to the Bayfair area in unincorporated Alameda County.

So as you can see, there's a lot of work happening in this area.

We'd like to acknowledge while these projects are led by respective jurisdictions, we're also working closely with our BARC partner on these efforts in coordinating with various county departments, including the county's public works agency.

Angelica, sorry, they're having a little trouble online hearing you.

Can you just speak up?

Thank you.

Okay, I'll get closer to the mic here.

So county projects that we are working on includes the Bayfair Party sites technical assistance, which we're presenting on today.

So that's highlighted in yellow.

There's also the community-based transportation plan, which Dominic Lucas will be covering in the second half of the presentation and highlighted in yellow in the top of this presentation slide here, since it is being led by both the city of San Landro and the county.

So we're working together to complete that plan.

So finally, the county is working on to comply with Metropolitan Transport Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Transit oriented communities policy, which you'll learn more about in an upcoming presentation next month.

So I'll leave it at that.

And now on the City of San Leandro side, uh just back to the other slide.

I just have a couple points here.

So uh just to highlight some work that the City of San Leandro is working on.

This includes their priority sized technical assistance to advance development on their side, the transit oriented communities policy work, so also work that the city of San Leandro is doing, and finally their development plan work.

So in addition to these projects, we'd like to highlight that SB 79 was signed by the governor in October of 2025, and also AB 2923 that was signed into law in 2018.

So these laws allow transit oriented development to achieve greater heights and densities for residential development and near transit stations.

So considerations are being made with the county's efforts to conform to state laws.

Next slide, please.

So today staff has made several presentations on the county's CBTP and PSTA efforts, which are listed on this slide.

Just to name a few are um Eden Area MAC back in December 2024, unincorporated bicycle and pedestrian advisory committee back in also December, and others listed on this slide.

I won't go through each one, but um next slide, please.

All right, so let's begin with the Bayfair Priority Sites Technical Assistance.

Uh so what is these this PSTA?

So I'd like to start off with defining what priority sites are.

So these are places close to services and public transit plan to support the production of housing that are affordable to households with a wide range of income.

So back in November 2023, Bayfair BART owned site was determined as a priority site by MTC to achieve housing.

So in January 2024, the county applied for technical assistance grant, which we received uh 250,000 that we were awarded with to advance um that goal to achieve housing.

And then finally, the Bayfair PSC scope includes pre-development tasks necessary to advance development on the BART owned property in unincorporated Alameda County.

Next slide, please.

Alright, so this slide highlights uh where the PSTA is, uh where the BART owned properties are located in Ashland, as you can see here, and the City of San Leandro's priority site.

The property straddle two jurisdictions, unincorporated Alameda County, which is highlighted in green, and the City of San Leandro, which is highlighted in yellow.

So our work will be limited to the area highlighted in green, located in the unincorporated area.

Next slide, please.

So the portion of the property in unincorporated Alameda County, highlighted in green on this slide, is located southeast of Thornley Drive and west of Bayfair BART tracks.

So single family residential development is located southwest and south of the property.

Excuse me, and the county and the city of San Leandro boundary line to the northeast and to the northwest.

The site predominantly serves as a surface parking lot with commuter parking spaces.

And so this party site is owned by BART and zoned Bayfair Transit Area High Density Residential.

And finally, the site was identified in the adopted housing element sites inventory to be rezoned to meet the county's regional housing needs to comply with AB 2923 that allows higher residential densities to meet transit-oriented development standards on BART properties.

Next slide.

So it's worth mentioning that in 2024, BART prepared a transit-oriented development program work plan.

And so this was adopted back in August 2024 and has identified the Bayfair BART properties in the county and in the city as one of the five BART properties to advance the TOD project in the near term.

So this pre-development this pre-development work for the PSTA aims to advance Bayfair to the next step, which is known as the developer solicitation solicitation stage known as RFP, RFQ request for proposal, our request for qualifications to advance to the developer solicitation and selection.

So this would lead to BART selecting a development partner.

So what is the Alameda County Bayfair PSTA scope entails?

So the last time we presented to Eden Mack was back in 2024, and we shared with you a rough draft of what the actual scope was going to be for the PSTA.

Again, we were awarded with the $250,000.

So this includes the work that funds that this particular project.

So this includes a work program to create a comprehensive roadmap.

So this will outline project tasks from pre-development and planning through post-construction.

This ensures transparency throughout the process.

The second is existing conditions and infrastructure capacity analysis.

So this is to conduct an assessment of the existing site conditions and analyze infrastructure capacity to support potential development.

So the next is community outreach.

So we're really focusing on engaging the community.

So that's the other, and then also developing draft vision goals and objectives, building on, excuse me, a community outreach to prepare joint document with BART that establishes a framework for this future RFP queue to the priority site.

And then finally reporting out to advisory bodies and decision makers.

Excuse me, next slide, please.

Alright, so next steps include community engagement.

We're working on planning an open house in early 2026, and then followed by a second meeting in spring of 2026, and then coming back in the summerfall 2026 to present findings to advisory bodies and decision makers.

So with that, I'd like to turn it over to my colleague who'll know it will now be covering our CBTP work.

Good evening, everybody.

Dominic Lucchese, the Planning Department.

Good to see everyone.

Thank you, Angelica.

So I'm here to cover the Bayfair Community-based Transportation Plan or CBTP.

The CBTP is a partnership between Alameda County and the City of San Leandro, and it's funded through a $350,000 grant received from the Alameda County Transportation Commission.

And we're here tonight just to give you an update and ask for any comments or feedback.

Next slide.

So what is a CBTP?

CBTP stands for Community Based Transportation Plan, which is a planning process that focuses on addressing the mobility needs of underserved communities through direct community engagement.

CBTPs have been conducted in many other jurisdictions across the Bay Area, and the main elements of a CBTP are shown here on the slide.

CBTPs place a heavy emphasis on community engagement with a focus on equity.

CBTPs consider all transportation modes, including transit, walking, biking, and carpooling.

And ultimately, the plan will identify specific projects and funding sources that can be used to improve mobility within the study area.

Next slide.

Now the outcomes of the CBTP will be a list of prioritized transportation projects and cost estimates based on community input.

Because this is an interjurisdictional project, there will be two separate project lists proposed to the San Leandro City Council and to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors for Adoption.

Examples of potential recommendations are shown here on the slide.

They include pedestrian and bike infrastructure improvements, bus stop amenities and ADA upgrades, intersection improvements, and neighborhood traffic calming and school safety.

We want to emphasize that the CBTP is focused on improvements within the public right of way and will not include recommendations on BART property or private properties.

Next slide.

So here's a map of the study area.

You can see that the CBTP focuses on the area around the Bayfair, BART station, and it includes parts of both the City of San Leandro and unincorporated Alameda County in Ashland.

On the unincorporated side of the study area, there's several parks, three public schools, and the REACH US Center.

Next slide.

So the overall goal of the CBTP is to ensure that all residents, especially those in equity priority communities, have safe, reliable, and accessible transportation options.

And we'll achieve these objectives by working with the community to identify barriers to access and connectivity challenges and develop targeted solutions to improve mobility.

The CBTP study area includes four EPCs, one in San Leandro and three in Ashland.

And you can see those areas highlighted here in the map in purple.

The entirety of Ashland is also identified as a priority community in the county's environmental justice element.

Next slide.

So the CBTP kicked off in May and is currently in the public engagement phase.

The project team has conducted stakeholder interviews, a multilingual online survey, a group site visit, and two pop-up events.

We're currently working towards our first public meeting in early 2026.

And here on this slide are photos of public engagement that we have conducted so far in collaboration with the city of San Leandro.

And that includes our site visit and pop-up events at the Bayfair Farmers Market and National Night Out.

The outreach and project is guided by our steering committee, which will be discussed on the next slide.

So the CBTP steering committee is a really important part of this process.

The CBTP is informed through throughout the process by the steering committee, which is made up of public agencies, local residents, and representatives of nonprofits and community-based organizations from San Leandro and Alameda County.

They're all listed here on the slide.

I'm not going to read every single one.

But the unincorporated communities are represented by the Ashland Community Association.

Warren from the Eden Mac.

The Reach Ashland Youth Center, the Alameda Office of Education, and the Unincorporated Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee.

Although they're not technically steering committee members, we are working very closely with the public works department.

So they're very heavily engaged in this project as well.

The steering committee serves as an important role as a liaison between the project team and the broader community.

And they have been graciously donating their time to provide local insights, refine outreach strategies, and ensuring equitable representation of a variety of stakeholders.

Next slide.

So here are our next steps.

After our presentation tonight, we expect to present our outreach findings at a community meeting in the spring of 2026.

And we'll continue to meet with our steering committee throughout the year.

Finally, we expect to present the draft CBTP next fall with final adoption expected by the end of next year, 2026.

That's all I have for y'all tonight.

Again, we're here today to ask for your comments and feedbacks on either of these projects, and we're here to answer any questions.

Anybody have any questions?

I had a question.

Yes, Megan.

It says that you were awarded 250,000 by MTC and that you use that money to conduct some surveying, or what was that money used for?

Is it still exhausted?

So for the grant award that we received from MTC, we were awarded with the $250,000.

So the emphasis on the award is to achieve housing to meet the regional needs.

And so was outlined, I believe in slide, let's see.

Slide eight, it highlights what we'll be using the funding for.

And so again, the emphasis is to uh work towards advancing development on the Bayfair parts side in the unincorporated area.

So I would like to highlight that this site was selected as part of the site's inventory list in order to accommodate the housing needs to uh to meet our housing element arena numbers, and so we're hoping to hopefully advance development on this property to meet our housing needs.

So have we conducted an assessment of existing site conditions and analyzed the infrastructure capacity to support the potential development?

So this is the work that we will be doing.

So just uh sharing this presentation with you for information purposes.

So we'll be doing this work um during the duration of the project, and then we'll come back in the fall with updates on the results of what you're seeing in slide eight.

Are we doing the assessment ourselves or are we contracting it out or is it not clear yet?

That's a really good question.

So we actually have used um metropolitan transportation agencies bench.

So they have a bench list of consultants, and they've identified a consulting team to work with us.

So that includes uh several uh consultants in the group that we'll be working with to complete this work.

So, for example, like the infrastructure analysis, we're not engineers.

We'll be hiring.

Um, well, we have hired an engineer that will be working with us through that.

Okay, so it's the early phases of doing the assessment.

That's correct.

We're in the early stages of working through the the project for the technical assistance work now.

Are the RFPs like out and signed to bring them on?

Well, that part of the process is is led by BART.

So their work program specifies that um the BART, the Baith Air Bart station has been selected for near term development, which will include uh solicitation phase sometime between uh now and 2028.

So that's uh a schedule that BART will be um we'll be leading and and working with, but as our as I mentioned, our goal is to to support and advance the development on this property based on our housing policy angle.

So hopefully I've answered your question, but again, so is BART going to in theory solicit and hire a developer to develop by 2028?

Is that what you just said?

That's what their work program says, but again, that's updated every four years, I believe, and and they could speak to that more so, but as county staff understands it, this work plan is updated every four years, and what they've established back in 2024 is that developer solicitation will occur by 2028.

Okay.

Okay, thank you.

So good questions.

Uh Elizabeth, anything?

When you said decision makers, that's kind of vague.

I don't know if we count as decision makers.

Uh I look forward to hearing what the feedback is.

I would also just be curious.

I mean, theoretically, they build all these apartments.

People from other areas are gonna move there, right?

We already live near Bayfair, right?

So whether or not we take BART or why we do or don't take the bus, we've already kind of made up our minds, right?

So as to why everybody's gonna have a different answer for that, right?

Whether you have to take it or you choose not to take it, right?

So just hearing our opinions on it, I don't know how that's necessarily gonna help when really theoretically we should be reaching out to other people who I mean in theory want, you know, 800 people who want to move here, right?

So is there any effort towards figure out who these potential people are who will be ready and willing to move here in 10 years or any plan on that?

Or that's a very good question as well.

Um, so I will say first that we will come back to Eugenback to provide information uh based on the results of um what's outlined in the work program.

We think that EDAMAC is a very important body that we uh need to provide an update for on this project since it's within the Eden area uh with regards to input from the public on the party site's technical assistance.

Um we will be working.

Well, actually, right now we're preparing and uh looking at dates in 2026 to reach out to uh to folks who may be interested in providing input on this site to inform the developer.

And so the goal is that we have a robust marketing so that we can make sure that we generate um interest and get the input that we need so that we can encourage folks to attend these meetings.

So we're working on uh preparing flyers and uh making sure that we reach out to to organizations to help us promote this event, but we do anticipate on um making sure that we have a robust uh strategy so that we could make sure that we reach out to as many folks as possible, because we want them to come, we want them to come and participate in the in the public process so we get their input.

Um, but I don't have the final details of that yet, but when we do uh we'll I will definitely come back and share that with you.

I will be coming back in December for another presentation.

So I'm hoping that by then I can share that date with with you all so that I can share the time, date, and location.

Um Ray.

I'll try and keep it to four sets of hopefully mostly quick questions.

First one with the public, so I noticed your website is bilingual.

I'm seeing English and Spanish.

Thank you for doing that.

With your public engagement to date, and especially with your upcoming community meetings, are you keeping those at least bilingual if not multilingual as you look for community input?

I'm gonna let Dominic speak to that in regards to the CBTP.

Sure.

Yeah, so for the CBTP thus far, um, all of our outreach materials actually been translated into um Spanish and Chinese, simplified Chinese, as well as the online survey.

We will potentially be doing an additional survey, which will include Tagalog.

And I believe all of our public meetings moving forward will have um translation services available.

Fantastic to hear.

Thank you.

And then when you do come back to present, let us know so that we can help you get the word out about those future sessions you mentioned.

Um next question.

So I was excited to see two names on the steering committee, one of which was Bike East Bay, and I was excited to see them because I'm curious about if the East Bay Greenway project has come up at all, and what like what discussions are happening around that.

I'll leave it open-ended.

Yeah, um, kind of what Angelica alluded to on her first slide is that there's a lot of work going on in the Bayfair area.

Um the East Bay Greenway is one project that has certainly got a lot of attention and intersects with a lot of our planning initiatives in the Bayfair area.

Um as I also mentioned we're working closely with public works, who would be the ones um responsible for uh actually um delivering that project, and a thing that is really important for all of us on the planning team is working in coordination with all these interdepartmental agencies to make sure we're not duplicating efforts and making sure that all of our timelines are straight because um we we don't want to duplicate create more work for ourselves.

Um, but that to answer your question, the East Bay Greenway um is a very important part of this area, um, and we're all keeping close tabs on it.

Amazing.

So we'll it's been discussed and where it's applicable, you will continue to discuss and include it.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

And then last question is actually for um Councilmember Cushman.

So you were the other name that I was excited to remember that you're representing us, Warren.

Um, so either now or later, let us know.

What have your experiences been to date?

What additional support, if any, do you need from us as a Mac?

Thank you, Ray.

Um, first of all, uh, there were I believe two meetings, is that right, Dominic, of our of our uh steering committee?

I remember two.

And um there was an initial meeting where we basically introduced ourselves, exchanged ideas, and then I believe there was a second meeting, which was a site visit.

Unfortunately, I was not able to go to that, I was out of state, but I have been in continuous communication with the planning team, and uh so at least in terms of getting information from them, I'm satisfied.

Now, in terms of relating to the Mac, um, I think that um I enjoy feedback and um thoughts from members of the Mac so that I have a sense of where each member of the Mac is uh and what each member of the MAC's concerns are as this process goes forward.

I uh was aware that there was going to be more steering committee meetings um uh in future, and so as MAC members uh have concerns as the process moves forward.

Of course, I invite that feedback.

I also wanted to say that um one of the one of the uh elucidations was the idea of having um pedestrians and bicyclists and scooters and uh people with disabilities all sharing the same space.

That gets challenging, obviously.

So, you know, I I'm I look forward to figuring out those challenges and figuring out how we can all interplay and work together because it is not going to be an easy and our community has has voiced this before.

So it is not going to be an easy modality to try to make everybody work well together.

So let us hope that that does continue and that we find some solutions.

Thank you.

Um I was curious, and Warren's already kind of commented on it.

I know you've referred to the steering committee, and it sounds like we have a lot more coming our way soon.

Um, the last time you were here, I remember uh the council had comments around like concerns about parking as well as pedestrian and bicycle access and accessibility in general from an ADA standpoint.

Um, is there anything else from the steering committee preliminarily or any other you know public comments that you've received uh to concerns or interest outside of that?

Um we're still kind of in the data analysis and just collecting our our feedback.

Um what I can say just based on um our pop-up events where we have the opportunity to engage with a lot of members of the public, um including one of your Mac members here at uh national night out.

Um people had a chance to kind of place dots um on a map of the study area to try and kind of communicate some of their concerns.

Like, sorry.

Thank you.

People have an opportunity to place dots on the map of the study area to kind of tell us what some of their concerns were.

Um just kind of anecdotally without any kind of like broader analysis, um, I can say that crosswalk improvements and pedestrian improvements were definitely um a high priority for folks who participated in our exercise, um, as well as um speeding, addressing speeding.

Um so safety overall, I would say is a big concern.

Um, and there were a number of calls for protected bike lanes on major uh thoroughfares as well.

Just because we've talked a lot about the environment um today.

Is there been any talk about uh like the green aspects of everything that we're working towards too yet or um maybe generally, but but not explicitly okay, might be nice to carve that out at some point.

I will say actually, um, there have been a number of comments received from members of the steering committee about um landscape improvements, which which could include include things like native plants, maybe being able to restore the urban canopy, providing shade.

Those are the types of things that could potentially fall into that category.

Okay, it'll be interesting just to keep in mind all of our initiatives that we're trying to work towards to layer that into that.

Yes.

Thank you.

Thanks for the question.

I was just I'm looking at the map.

The unincorporated Alameda County part is that part in green.

Is that the back parking lot of BART now?

Is that what that is?

I think it is, right?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

That's correct.

So the area in green is uh currently uh BART parking.

So that's for the uh the commuters who use the the BARP, uh the BART station.

Okay, yeah, that's what I thought once before.

So ineffective BART would be losing some parking area.

I don't know where people are gonna park.

Um I mean because the neighborhoods all have no parking signs up there for all day two.

I um anyway.

Um the theory is people would all live there who use BART.

And the people who came from other places would I don't know, take a bus or something.

But um I I just had some questions when I was reading through this.

I some of these terms well, let me just start with P S T A technical assistance.

I thought that was like how are you gonna technically assist people who live there?

That's just a term for the project, right?

For I don't know what.

Yes, that's correct.

Um, so we we use priority sites because that's the term that the Metropolitan Transportation agency looks at these particular sites.

So they've termed sites such as this that could be utilized in order to accelerate, excuse me, accelerate uh the development of housing.

So this that's why they call it priority sites, and then we use technical assistance again because it's a term um based on funding.

MTC awarded these funds for technical assistance, so that's the work program.

I was I was looking for some technical assistance for the residents of this area once it got built.

Um then the other thing is in some places you say the a priority site is for um affordable in a wide range of affordabilities, but then someplace else, then you talk about equity priority community, and then someplace else says underserved.

I'm just trying to reconcile these terms.

Is equity priority community the same as underserved communities?

Essentially, yes.

Um I do apologize, there's a lot of planning terms that we're using here.

Um so we talked about priority sites which are focused on um improving areas that MTC has identified to accelerate housing.

We we're talking about equity priority communities.

Um that is also um well that's different.

So that's specific to underrepresented communities um that are highly uh relevant in that particular area, if that makes sense.

Um I guess maybe when you rewrite it, if some of the terms are overlap have the same meaning, but are two different terms.

Um it could just be coordinated like underserved and equity priority communities, or that's the same socioeconomic status you're looking at for either of those terms, right?

Okay, that's correct.

And I do apologize.

There's there's many terms that we're using um purposefully based on um the technicality and in which these grants were awarded.

So that's where they're um it's we understand the the difficulty in understanding the terms.

I think in the future um we can look into maybe providing like a glossary so that we could offer the definition to to help with understanding the terminology that we are using.

Okay.

Um I didn't have anything else, so let's open it for pilot.

One more question.

What's that?

I have one more question.

Orn, do you have a question also?

No, is that on or off?

I think yes, it's on.

Yeah, there you go.

Okay, Megan, yeah.

Um my question was if you could just briefly describe what phases one, two, and three look like, or what that means on this slide where it says like Hayward phase two, West Oakland, phase one.

What what what does each phase mean?

That's a good question, and and I don't know because it's something that is specific to each BART uh project.

And so because we're focusing on Bayfair, unfortunately, I don't have that detail for you.

Okay, Bayfair doesn't have one, so we know that they're not in a phase, it sounds like yeah.

That's correct.

It has not started.

We're in the very early early stages.

Okay, and then you said you're coming back next month.

Is it to present on the same topic or something else?

It is for something else.

Oh, okay.

Well related to this.

It is it is related to to uh the housing element as well.

More for the housing element, okay.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

I think we um let me just open up for public comment and see if public has some comments or maybe some questions that you can step back and readdress.

Okay, do we have any public speakers?

Michael Moore.

Thank you.

I really just have one question, and that was the first one that uh Megan that you raised, which is um the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars now that was awarded in May 2024, correct?

And as near as I can tell, uh Alameda County and BART both have significant budgetary challenges, along with the federal government that doesn't like what this is all about anyway, at least in California.

How much of the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is left?

By my calculations in Alameda County.

Ashby would have gotten 62.5.

Bayfair would get 62.5.

Hayward would get 62.5.

And Fremont would get 62.5.

Which means that Bayfair got 62,500.

To spend on development plans, which we haven't spent yet.

I could be mistaken in that, but uh it would be really nice to understand.

Because I know that for me, figuring out what happened to the money is always exciting.

Um anybody that gave money to Bart, it's spent.

It's all gone.

Now this money went to Alameda County, didn't go to Bart.

But Alameda County has problems with money too.

So if you can either answer it or tell us about it at the next meeting, that would be great.

Thank you.

Kathy Rodriguez.

Hi, um, I listened to the presentation and I have a lot of concerns concerning um the planning committee and the public works, you know, helping with the project.

And these are the reasons.

So they say they're gonna do community engagement and have two meetings.

So what needs to happen, there needs to be an oversight, and it needs to be brought to you to you guys so you guys can look at what they're doing as far as how are they um engaging the community?

How are they reaching out to the community?

Do you really know they're reaching out to the community?

The reason why I'm saying this is because I am a Llewellyn um business and homeowner, and this project started, it was 2019.

I never got no notification until they started tearing up property on Llewellyn Boulevard.

Um there was no community engagement, although the Department of Public Works director and the deputy director, Daniel and Amber Lowe stated they had community engagement.

And when Nate Miley asked them, do you have a log?

No, I don't, they have no proof of it.

I went door to door to every single neighbor on Llewellyn Boulevard, 60 homes.

Nobody knew anything about it because they went and they took property from people.

Um there has to be oversight, you know.

They want to make predestined bike lanes, but yet you guys got to make sure that it's necessary.

Okay, they want to focus on the right-of-way, okay.

They say they're gonna focus and stay within right-away.

You know what?

They didn't stay within the right-of-way on Llewellyn Boulevard.

So you guys need to make sure that you guys do oversight and make sure they're doing what they're saying.

There was a hundred and eighty-seven report that was made for Llewellyn Boulevard.

There has to be a report made for this project.

You guys need to get copies of it and seeing see it.

They never gave those copies to the board of supervisors.

Um there's there was no outreach, and there was no language, like uh pamphlets that went out in English and Chinese and Spanish, none of that.

And um, it talked.

Oh, and you need to get site map maps, because I did my research and I went and investigated.

There's track max maps that are with the county and the county recorder's office, and it will extate exactly what public right-away is from the maps from way back 1942.

These people did not follow these rules.

They violated, they also violated the Alameda County ordinance, title zoning chapters.

Business owners are supposed to have 20 feet within their business property.

They they made it go down to 15 feet.

Right now, Llewellyn Boulevard is thank you.

There are no more speakers.

Okay, thank you.

Then we'll close um public comment.

Do you do I thought you said that the grant money was for this study?

So can you just clarify?

Has some of that money has been spent.

I'm not sure how Micah was alluding to somehow got split up between counties.

Can you just address that a little bit?

Yes, I can address that.

So when the grant awards were distributed, I believe there was a total of $4 million that MTC had.

And so one of the jurisdictions, which is the county, we were awarded with a part of that.

So that's 250,000 as part of that four million dollar overall grant for technical assistance work.

So just to clarify, um we are spending funds to begin the work.

Unfortunately, I don't have the number that specifies what we have left, but just wanted to clarify that the 250,000 was awarded to the county to do the work as outlined in the work program for the county only.

Okay, and then um I know you mentioned public works, but is um, I don't know if you have any response to the lady who was just referring to um I don't know, maybe not having enough oversight or follow-up once a plan was developed.

Or I know you we're not even doing anything yet here, right?

You're just looking into what might be done, correct?

That's correct.

And and I I'm not sure um which specific project that the caller was uh referencing to, but specifically with the CBTP, the community-based transportation plan, we have been doing a lot of engagement for this particular project.

We do be with public works agency when we're working through this project.

As Dominic has mentioned, we are uh closer to the midpoint of this project, maybe even before the midpoint, so starting and um in this process, we have definitely looked at having a robust um engagement.

So one of the things that we've been doing is Dominic has mentioned is that we've been working um through providing translations on our website of what the CBTP is.

Um we had um listserv posts, for example, for the community survey that was posted for the CBTP.

We've asked um Supervisor Miley's district along with supervisor TAM in order to highlight in their newsletters that we do have these surveys that are happening.

So we are looking at um making sure that we are working on engaging with the community by making sure that um we're doing things to to get folks to participate in the process.

So um I'm not sure if this was the project that the caller was referring to.

Yeah, I'm I'm not really sure something on the welling too, but anyway.

Um thank you for your presentation.

Did anybody else on the board have anything to follow up with?

This is just informational, so there's no action on our part.

Will you announce your solicitation for community input at our next meeting when you have a date or if you're gonna have a community meeting?

For the solicitation phase, that will be an effort led by BART for the engagement meeting specifically.

It's it's really focusing on educating the community on what the process is, but we are looking at input um to receive from the community on what they're interested in seeing for this site.

Again, that information will be provided to BART to share with the developers part of the RP process.

So that's why we'd like to engage with the community so it put is incorporated as part of their process.

So when you're seeking community input for the process, how are you soliciting community members to participate?

Uh for the input, we we have um been the team has been looking at ways in order to make sure that we reach out to as many folks as possible right now.

Right now, we're uh preparing, as I mentioned, flyers.

We're looking at uh producing um language for listservs that we're uh we're planning to share with, for example, the supervised to share in their newsletters.

We'll also be uh posting in our listserv.

So we are looking to make sure that um engagement will be addressed.

And if you have any recommendations on how we could promote um this first community meeting, we're happy to hear.

So do you have a date for your first community meeting?

We're looking at um the first meeting to occur sometime in January, so mid-January.

So I guess what I was asking or the initial part of my question was when you do have a date and when you do have your details, will you advertise it at our next math meeting?

Yes, that is the goal.

Okay, thanks.

That is the goal.

Just we're just waiting to make sure that we have the time, the location, the date all cleared before sharing this information.

So it's it'll you'll see it very soon.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you very much for coming tonight.

Thank you.

Great, or last item.

Um, hopefully, if there's not a whole lot of debate, is adopting our meeting schedule for uh next year.

It's basically it's in our packet.

The first one came out and it there was an error and then it was corrected.

Uh Tona corrected it, but pretty much it's like every second Tuesday as we've been meeting.

I don't see any holidays um switching it to another day on um for next year.

So is anybody have any um special comments or is anybody just want to move to adopt the calendar as presented?

I'll move to adopt the calendar.

Looks good to me.

Okay, thank you.

Is there a second?

I can second it.

Thank you.

Or is there any discussion?

Everyone's had a chance.

It's pretty much every second Tuesday, but I don't want to not let anyone comment if there's something that looks out of place.

All right, I don't see anybody questioning it, so let's do the vote, take the vote.

Councilmember Aston Nielsen.

Hi.

Councilmember Mara Mohoko.

Yes.

Councilmember Roll.

Hi.

Councilmember Stanley.

Yes.

Councilmember Cushman.

Chair Whitler.

Hi.

All right.

I guess that passes.

So continuing on my chair's report, I kind of already um did that.

See, I knew nobody'd be here at the end to wish you happy Thanksgiving to.

So go on to are there any council announcements, comments, and or reports.

Megan, you had something?

I was just gonna share that the um Alameda County chapter of the American Sowing Guild has now a monthly meeting here in San Lorenzo, and it's the third Monday of every month, and it's $60 for an annual membership, and we meet at the HOA association hall from like six to nine, and you get to sew and talk about sewing the whole time.

You admitted it's a week.

Hi, so anybody else?

Uh yeah, I I had two comments actually.

So I was thinking just based on the conversation today that we heard a lot about public works, and I know the last time they were here, we talked about wanting to reinvite them to more specific items.

One of which I remember is uh I think the flood channel, but there were three items.

So I was wondering if the council would consider uh reinviting them and agendizing those specific points because we never came back around to that topic, so it might be nice to just make sure that that was addressed, and then um to kind of bring up the idea since it wasn't the right time at the moment, but it might behoove us to also uh bring forth Sky West again and uh kind of take that prior conversation and see if we can put that in an agenda in the future as well as recommendation for the supervisors.

Anybody else?

Right.

Um, could we have an update from staff on the translation policy, please?

Hi, everyone.

My name is Celine Huang, the district director with supervisor Lena Tamps' office as of right now.

Uh we do not have much update because one of our staff members was uh away.

So we've been waiting for her.

Um, but as of right now, I heard another staff who's been working on it, her name is Serena Chen.

She just had a meeting with um Alameda County Supervisor District 2's office, Chief of Staff, Alex, um, and they just recently talked uh about going over um the next steps.

So more to come um now that our staff does return today.

Okay, thank you for answering my question.

Okay, um anything different?

Let me ask oh, yeah.

Oh, go ahead, Rick.

Um, hasn't it been more than three months since we heard CHP?

Like, are they coming up in the rotation and the sheriff's department?

Yeah, I'll I'll I'll speak with Tona about um putting them in.

Sometimes it depends on how many planning items we have too, how they kind of um fit them in, but usually they're kind of like quarterly reports.

But I wanted to ask T.

P is on for December.

December.

Yeah.

And you're right, they're usually quarterly for CHP, ACSO doesn't um have the same agreement, but we can reach out to them for an update.

Okay, uh ACSO is the sheriff's office, Tonya.

Correct.

Tona, correct.

Tony, sorry, thank you.

It's okay.

Okay, thank you.

Um I would like to say just since we have the tell us about the DUIs.

I would like theoretically later to reach out to the sheriffs and get something similar.

So I feel like I would like to know what, you know, the same kind of thing, but from the sheriffs, that would be beneficial to me.

Just hearing, you know what, what are areas of concern, like she said in a safety way.

I'd like to hear those statistics, maybe not once a month, but at all would be nice.

We'll reach out to the sheriff's office about doing quarterly as well as you know, they handle the criminal activity where highway patrol handles the traffic and safety issues, so their quarterly reports kind of reflect each of their jurisdictions, so to speak, but I'll definitely reach out.

Okay, they they also have a sheriff's um presentation and advisory uh meeting to all of the unincorporated areas.

They just had it this Monday.

It's like I think the last Monday of the month or whatever that was it's it's in the it's in the HOA hall Wednesday, sorry.

It's Wednesdays once one summit that alternates between here in Castro Valley, but it's from four to five.

Um okay.

I just we I have talked with Tona about putting public works back on for more specific items, and every time I think I make a listen, I forget it.

So what what three items did you still remember?

I had like the time for response on like trash pickup, not trash, not I mean cleaning up the streets, let's say when people use their mobile citizen app.

I had that one and I can't remember the others.

Flood control is what I remember specifically because we wanted to hear about how it's being maintained and we're make we're putting money in some areas towards it, but what is what is the effort to then actually you know uh basically care for what we put forward and then the the kind of maintenance going forward because some areas are in just you know despair is my understanding.

So we wanted them to get a little speech that more.

I can look at my notes, but I mean I would hope it would be in the minutes too, because we actually went one, two, three, or three core items.

I can try and find that too.

I I think you'll I I forget those sometimes.

So if anybody on the board, if you have some specifics that we were gonna have um ask public works when they came back, just email it to me, okay, because we really just it's not a discussion item at this point, but I know it's come up to Britt invite them back and um but just to clarify that the way the public works had stated it is they said they would return for core items.

So I think that one of those, like they wanted to do a presentation.

Okay, give us a presentation on flood control that's one in and of itself and so we I think had three ones there were quite a few so I think even just with one we'll get somewhere okay um so I have nothing else no other board members staff any staff announcements or comments or reports.

Just a reminder uh I did send everybody a email today about your special meeting on December 3rd we are finalizing the location but it will be from uh it starts at six o'clock and it's with the unincorporated services committee uh so supervisor Nate Miley and supervisor Lena Tam will be there you will be joined by all of the Macs uh please let me know if you're going to attend that way we can plan uh the room and the mics and if you do not have a quorum uh you cannot participate as a Mac but you would be able to participate as a member of the community so please uh respond to my email and if you didn't get it let me know and the subject is oh I'm so sorry it is a follow up to the October uh meeting about the unincorporated area budget uh process.

Okay thank you.

Hello Ryan Hughes here with Supervisor TAM's office we have a couple of updates uh one is a reparations listening session that will take place December 6th um at the San Leandro library um it is from 12 p.m to 2 p.m and the address is 300 Esteo Avenue in San Leandro as well as a holiday toy giveaway um in partnership with Supervisor Miley's office and uh Supervisor Tam's office along with the uh City of Oakland Mayorly Barbara Lee's office um this is something that we are collecting toys for or if you know of anybody in our area that needs toys um they can fill out applications so we I do have um some flyers here for you okay anyone else Tona we're good what reparations are good thank you what what reparations though specifically I don't have it in front of me it's through the Alameda County reparations committee commission yeah so they're doing a a set of listening um so each district is doing a listening session um ours happens to be on December 6th at or at the San Leandro Library it's an intake is it an intake basically then okay thank you because there are many reparation potential I was just trying to understand thank you.

Okay the only thing I have left on the agenda is adjournment is anybody opposed to us adjourning all right then we will adjourn at something like 8 35 8 37 okay thank you all