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WHEREAS discussions between the City, BART and Westlake Development Partners, LLC suggested that greater physical and financial flexibility could be achieved by combinng the BART property with the Chang property and the City property (Martinez Street) separating the BART and Chang properties; and WHEREAS it was determined on a preliminary basis that greater development and transit access flexibility could be achieved by combining these properties; and WHEREAS City and Agency staff, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), and Westlake Development Partners, LLC have negotiated an Exclusive Negotiating Agreement, under which Westlake Development Partners, LLC would further investigate site conditions and development possibilities, eventually leading to some form of development agreement to be determined, between the City, the Agency and Westlake Development Partners, LLC; and WHEREAS in the interest of insuring broad public participation in a project application that will result from this Exclusive Negotiating Agreement, community groups, labor organizations and various stakeholders will be provided an opportunity to address the following issues, including, but not limited to: • child care and social services, • affordable housing, housing mix and type, • sustainability and green building, • information on impacts to neighborhoods, and • employment generation during construction and at build-out; and WHEREAS the Agency has been presented with the Exclusive Negotiating Agreement and is familiar with the contents thereof; NOW, THEREFORE, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Leandro does RESOLVE as follows: That the Exclusive Negotiating Agreement with Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) and Westlake Development Partners, LLC is hereby approved, and the Executive Director is authorized to execute it. Introduced by Agency Member Grant and passed and adopted this 4rh day of February, 2008 by the following called vote: RESOLUTION NO. 2008-004 RDA 2