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1. Introduction San Leandro Shoreline Area The San Leandro Marina Shoreline area contains over 1,800 acres of public land and has operated since the 1960s. The approximately 40 acres being considered for development includes several revenue -generating uses such as the San Leandro Marina Inn (a 131 -room limited service hotel), El Torito Restaurant (250 -seat capacity), Horatio's Restaurant (225 -seat capacity), two yacht clubs and a harbor. Other uses on the site include large paved surface parking facilities (a sizeable portion of which are unused), and patches of ornamental landscaping. The Shoreline area includes other public uses, such as the Monarch Bay Golf Club's Marina 9 -Hole and Tony Lema golf courses to the east and Marina Park to the south. A local road network provides vehicle access within the Shoreline Area. Harbor (North) Basin The San Leandro Marina has operated since the 1960s and has approximately 40 percent of the 465 berths occupied. As noted above, the federal Channel leading into/out of the harbor received a partial dredge in late 2009, but the harbor basin itself has not been fully dredged since 1997, and there is no near-term funding or plans to dredge it. South Basin The South Basin (also known as the Small Boat Lagoon) is located directly south of the Harbor Basin. It is surrounded by Marina Park to the east, the Monarch Bay Golf Club to the southeast, and trails to the south and east and does not contain any boat storage facilities. Dredged Materials Management Site The Dredged Materials Management Site (DMMS) is bordered by the Estudillo Canal to the north, by the San Leandro Shoreline Marshlands (SLSM) (also known as the Roberts Landing area) to the south and southeast, by residential development (Marina Vista) to the east, and by the Monarch Bay Golf Club to the west. It is approximately 100 acres and consists of two enclosed basins — West Basin (Basin 1) and East Basin (Basin 2). Historically, this site has been used as a temporary drying and storage area for sediments that were dredged from the San Leandro Channel and Harbor Basin. Levees surround the DMMS with six weirs along the northern levee and one weir at the southern levee to control the flow of water into Estudillo Canal and into the DMMS, respectively. There is also a weir in the DMMS central levee to enable drainage flows between the two DMMS basins. Several bird habitat islands, created as part of post -dredge material removal activities, are located within each basin. Types of Redevelopment Being Considered for Upland Areas While no development application has been submitted so far to the City for the upland areas, it is anticipated that the programming for areas adjacent to the Harbor Basin would include some combination of hotel (with a conference center), office, retail and restaurants, residential, recreational, and open space uses. These uses would generally be consistent with the type of development that exists in the project vicinity, and are discussed in more detail in Section 4.2. San Leandro Marina Harbor Basin 1-3 ESA / 210461 Alternatives Study March 2011