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SAN LEANDRO BOARD OF ZONING ADJUSTMENTS AND PLANNING COMMISSION JOINT WORKSESSION SISTERS CITY GALLERY ROOM 835 East 14th Street San Leandro, CA 94577 MINUTES FOR JOINT WORK SESSION June 28, 2007 7:00 P.M. Call to Order I Item 1: Roll Call Present: Board of Zoning Adjustment Members Daly, Gilcrest, Shields, Vice Chair Pearson, Chair Goldt. Planning Commissioners Abero, Collier, Finberg, Vice Chair Dlugosh. BZA Members Marr, Sidari. Planning Commissioners Nardine, Ponder, Chair Reed. Excused: Staff: Kathleen Livermore, Secretary to the Planning Commission; Sally Barros, Planner II; Stephanie Stuart, Assistant City Attorney, and Barbara Templeton, Recording Secretary. I Item 2: Joint Work Session Secretary Kathleen Livermore (who has served as TOD Project Manager) and Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) Chair Anna Brannan delivered a presentation on the Downtown San Leandro Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Strategy. Ms. Livermore began with an overview of their agenda, including a review of the CAC process, a summary of TOD's key goals and policies, Environmental Impact Report (EIR) issues, implementation program components, and next steps, both in terms of public outreach and action items. By way of background, Ms. Brannan said that the TOD Strategy - encompassing the area radiating out one half-mile from the Davis and East 14th Streets intersection - began with San Leandro receiving grants of $450,000 from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and $51,000 from the Alameda County Transportation Improvement Authority (ACTIA). The City enacted an urgency ordinance to place a moratorium on developments within the opportunity sites of the TOD Strategy area as the strategy took shape. To develop the strategy, the City assembled the CAC, whose members met over a 15 month period culminating in May 2007. The CAC, originally 27 members, comprises