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Minutes -City of San Leandro City Council and Page 6 San Leandro Redevelopment Agency Joint Meeting -September 20,1999 4. JOINT CITY COUNCIL/SAN LEANDRO REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY PUBLIC HEARING A. Matter of Amendment to the Joint Alameda County/City of San Leandro Redevelopment Project Area Relating to Extension of Eminent Domain. -- Petition Opposing Eminent Domain Proceedings Regarding the Bal Theatre Node (72 signatures), Submitted by Phyllis F. McAvoy, 14831 Bancroft Avenue, Owner/Manager, Received September 8, 1999. -- An Ordinance Approving Amendment No. 4 to the Joint Alameda County/City of San Leandro Redevelopment Project Area Redevelopment Plan to Extend the Power of Eminent Domain to a Limited Number of Commercially and Industrially Zoned Properties Within the Project Area (modifies language in Section 403 of the Redevelopment Plan to extend the power of Eminent Domain). -- Pass to Print This being the time and place for the Public Hearing on the above matter, Steve Emslie, Development Services Director, and Debbie Potter, Redevelopment Manager, gave an overview of the nodes being proposed for eminent domain; and Jennifer Andersen, Redevelopment Specialist, gave a presentation on the areas and properties included, as well as the background on the properties selected. The presentation included a description of the eminent-domain process. The City Council recessed from 8:50 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Hearing was then opened to the public. Robert Battinich, 577-601 Aladdin Street, addressed the City CounciURedevelopment Agency regarding properties within the Auto Mall Node. He submitted a letter to the City Council filing objections to the procedure, process, the displacement of persons within the area, the lack of a report by the Planning Department setting forth the general plan for the area, and that there were no specific findings of blight. He objected, further, that there was no neighborhood- impact report; that the Department of Conservation, the County Agricultural Commissioner, the County Farm Bureau, and the California Farm Bureau Federation have not been notified of the extent agricultural workers are being displaced; and that affected City Council Members have not declared any applicable conflicts of interests for the record.