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Sx <br />i! <br />A' City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: July 16, 2012 <br />00 11 . Resolution - Council <br />File Number: 12 -373 Agenda Section: ACTION ITEMS <br />Agenda Number: <br />TO: City Council <br />FROM: Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY: Uchenna Udemezue <br />Engineering & Transportation Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW: Not Applicable <br />TITLE: ADOPT: Resolution Designating the City of San Leandro's Locally Preferred <br />Alternative for the AC Transit East Bay Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Project <br />(designates the City's preferred option for BRT) <br />WHEREAS, in 1998 the AC Transit District ( "AC Transit ") initiated work on the "Major <br />Investment Study" to closely examine alternatives for transit service on several transit <br />corridors in its service area; and <br />WHEREAS, in 2000 a Major Investment Study Policy Steering Committee comprised of <br />members from all affected jurisdictions, including the City of San Leandro ( "City "), was <br />convened to provide guidance to the study from a corridor -wide perspective; and <br />WHEREAS, in 2001 the Policy Steering Committee recommended a preferred route or <br />"Locally Preferred Alternative" (LPA) for a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project that specified the <br />corridor alignment of Telegraph Avenue to International Boulevard /East 14th Street in the <br />cities of Berkeley, Oakland, and San Leandro; and <br />WHEREAS, BRT is a mode of transit service that has some or all the following <br />characteristics: Dedicated Travel Lanes; Level Boarding Platforms; Off -Board Fare <br />Collection; and Real -Time Arrival Signs; and <br />WHEREAS, in May 2007, AC Transit in collaboration with the Federal Transit <br />Administration released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement/ Report ( "Draft EIS /R ") for the <br />continued development of the East Bay Bus Rapid Transit Project (the "Project "); and <br />WHEREAS, in July 2007 the City of San Leandro formally submitted comments in <br />response to the Draft EIS /R, with comments focused on route alignment, traffic, parking, <br />economic, construction, roadway maintenance, and operation impacts, among other <br />concerns; and <br />WHEREAS, in May 2010 the City of San Leandro forwarded its original Locally Preferred <br />City of San Leandro Page 1 Printed on 711012012 <br />