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Unapproved Excerpts from the Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes .Tune 19, 2014 <br />Page 2 of 7 <br />Planner Penaranda presented the staff report via his PowerPoint presentation. He noted that the <br />proposed plan calls for restricting use of the main Bayfront Drive entrance gate to residents' <br />vehicles only. Residents would gain entry either via scannable ID tags on their vehicles or <br />remote -control devices, either of which would activate the Anchorage Drive entrance. The <br />Anchorage Drive ingress would be the sole access point for landscapers and other service <br />providers, maintenance workers including San Leandro Public Works Department staff, police <br />officers, delivery vehicles and visitors. Both sets of gates also would have adjacent pedestrian <br />gates. The installation would include decorative metal tubular fencing along the width of the park <br />that fronts Bayfront Drive. Planner Penaranda explained that the proposal to install gates would <br />be a major modification to the Planned Development, which was approved in the mid-1990s, so <br />the application is being treated as a new application by the Planning Commission. <br />Planner Penaranda suggested that in addition to more inconvenience and longer drive times, <br />increased traffic would result from diverting all of these vehicles away from Bayfront Drive and <br />onto Anchorage Drive and the east -west streets it feeds such as Charter Way, Mariner Way and <br />Oceanside Way. He also noted restricted access would hamper emergency services by delaying <br />response times. Not only would the emergency personnel need time to go to the Knox Box and <br />unlock it in order to get through the gate, but they also might have to maneuver their way around <br />any vehicles waiting in the queue, or perhaps even a maintenance worker who inadvertently went <br />to the wrong gate. <br />Planner Penaranda indicated that Tract Map 6810 specifies a Public Access Easement (PAE) on <br />the full length to the western terminus of Bayfront Drive from the Lewelling Boulevard Circle. <br />He said this PAE was intended to provide vehicle and pedestrian access via Bayfront Drive and <br />the adjacent sidewalk to the Bay Trail. In addition, he stated that the City Engineer's Report and <br />Conditions of Approval for Vesting Tentative Map Tract 6665, an earlier version of Tract 6810, <br />requires a PAE to be provided over Bayfront Drive to allow for public pedestrian and vehicular <br />ingress and parking for access to the Shoreline Trail and Interpretive Center. <br />Planner Penaranda also explained that in addition to the City, the HOA must seek public access <br />approval from the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC). In <br />response to Commissioner Rennie, he confirmed that the BCDC permit is separate and distinct <br />from the City's. <br />Planner Penaranda further noted that the minutes from the November 9, 1995 Planning <br />Commission meeting includes a statement from the developer's consultant that the development <br />would not be gated. To substantiate his point about the City discouraging gated communities, <br />Planner Penaranda referenced the list of 14 examples in the staff report of residential infill <br />projects and subdivisions without gates that the City has approved since 1984 such as Washington <br />Commons, Marina Vista and Cherrywood. He also provided supporting data indicating that <br />District 4 has the lowest rate of violent crimes of any San Leandro Council District. <br />In response to Commissioner Rennie, Planner Penaranda showed where the traffic would flow <br />on the PowerPoint slide. With the Bayfront Drive gate accessible to residents only, visitors, <br />delivery vehicles and service providers would enter via Anchorage Drive. Instead of turning left <br />from Bayfront Drive onto Oceanside Way and Harbor Way, they would have to drive around the <br />complex and take the back way in. The route to Heron Drive, a right turn from the end of <br />Bayfront Drive, would be even longer. <br />Planner Penaranda also summarized correspondence received after the Commissioners' agenda <br />packets had already been assembled and mailed: <br />A letter from BCDC Coastal Program Analyst Ande Bennett to Attorney Alan Berger, <br />dated June 19, 2014 <br />