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Minutes - San Leandro City Council Meeting - January 11, 1993 Page - 15 - NEW BUSINESS (continued) Council Member Corbett said she is bothered that the Oakland City Council has no concern about the impact on San Leandro from this project. She said that has put San Leandro in a position of having to ask for mitigations elsewhere. She said she hoped Mrs. Van Puttkamer would advocate San Leandro' s position to Oakland. Jeff Houston, 1465 Burkhart Avenue, said there was a sign-up sheet for volunteers to recall Mayor Karp. He asked Steve Meyers why the MOU could not define the number of units. He said the Roberts Landing project could not bind future Councils with respect to airport expansion because the effects were unknown. He asked why the City did not indemnify the Port but can indemnify Mr. Smith. Steve Meyers said the Port was asking the City to agree that it would not oppose future expansion and would indemnify the Port over any noise or lawsuits . He said his advice at the time was that, since there were no current plans, the City Council could not be bound. He said he took exception to Mr. Houston' s comparison of the two projects . He said the covenant for this project binds the City Council not to sue unless the project is materially changed. .He said if the project is materially changed, then the MOU does not bind the Council . He said he cannot define a revised project, but CEQA requires that Oakland carefully review any change in the project to determine if there are any new environmental impacts which would require a supplemental EIR. This would constitute a material change, and the covenant not to sue would not apply. John Glaub, 1050 Lee Avenue, Board Member of Estudillo Homeowners Association, said people only found out about this meeting last Friday, yet there was a large turnout. He said everyone in San Leandro is outraged. He said community groups in San Leandro have opposed this for six years and have made a variety of presentations before the City Council . He said they were also told by staff members, including Mike Oliver, that there would be public participation in determining financial impacts on San Leandro. He said the cost estimates are inadequate. The costs are annual costs, not one-time initial ; numerous cost impacts have been deleted, including impacts on parks and recreation facilities; overcrowded stores and parking lots; police; fire; crossing-guard costs; and quality-of-life costs. Widening Bancroft and Dutton will not mitigate the problems. Mr. Oliver asked if Mr. Glaub was intimating that Mr. Oliver had suggested the widening of Bancroft and Dutton. Mr. Glaub said the impacts would be taken up by the general street- widening program. Mr. Oliver said this was untrue and was a misrepresentation of everything the City has put together for the Plan Line.