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Shoreline-Marina May 20, 2009 Town Hall Meeting Highlights part of their projects. He stressed that the area has a lot of potential to be a grand destination place if master planned correctly. He mentioned that neither the City nor the public should be discouraged in developing the shoreline because the economy is in poor condition. Some of waterfront projects that his company has built were planned during down-economic times. Mr. Miller stated that he and his team encourage community input and involvement to assist his company and the Shoreline CAC in developing a shoreline master plan with the community's consensus. B. Kent Myers, Chairperson, Shoreline Development Citizens Advisory Committee. Chair Myers presented an overview of the Shoreline CAC's mission, progress to date, and future schedule of milestones in 2009 and 2010. The mission is to: • Develop amenities that will appeal to most people, • Incorporate and connect the current amenities with future ones, • Recognize how desirable the shoreline area is and take advantage of its regional placement (especially its proximity to the Oakland Airport), • Develop a master plan that requires little or no City investment and creates a shoreline area that is self-sustaining. The Shoreline CAC, since last December 2008 has met as a group at least once a month and in that time has: • Discussed preliminary visions for the Shoreline Area; • Participated in a site tour of the subject area and existing amenities; • Received General Plan objectives and discussed Zoning requirements; • Received history of previous plans and priorities from 1990 to the Present; • Received Public Opinion Poll Results; • Received information about the Shoreline Enterprise Fund and the future of the boat harbor • Received information about the environmental challenges and regulations in developing the shoreline; • Received information about how traffic circulation and access needs to be considered; and • Divided into three smaller groups to improve interaction and participation within each group to develop various conceptual designs (ideas) in master planning the shoreline. - The Shoreline-CAC will continue to meet regularly and has the remaining milestones- that will go to July 2010: • Group sharing of conceptual ideas; • Feedback on conceptual ideas from Cal-Coast and City staff ; • Financial Feasibility Feedback of Ideas and perhaps the revision of some ideas; • Sharing of revised design ideas; • Consensus building; • Preliminary design concepts; • Additional Town Hall Meetings for community feedback in February; • Refined Design Concepts;