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WORKING DRAFT FOR HCD REVIEW <br /> <br /> <br />EVALUATION OF 2010 ELEMENT 2-14 SAN LEANDRO HOUSING ELEMENT <br />Action Summary Progress <br />53.05-A Prepare promotional materials advertising <br />residential and mixed use development <br />opportunities in the city, particularly around <br />the Downtown and Bayfair BART Stations <br />and along the East 14th Street corridor. <br />Continue to pursue grant funding for visual <br />simulations and other educational media <br />which illustrate high-density housing <br />prototypes (especially along East 14th Street <br />and around the BART Stations) and respond <br />to neighborhood concerns about higher <br />density housing. <br />ADVANCE. The City’s Community Development <br />Department continues to promote and market the City <br />to prospective developers, with an emphasis on the <br />Downtown and BART station areas. The <br />Department’s “San Leandro Next” website/ blog <br />includes promotional information and materials about <br />the community, and represents a “rebranding” of San <br />Leandro as a center for innovation and technology. <br />Additional housing is an important part of that vision. <br /> <br /> <br />53.05-B Facilitate land assembly and/ or mixed use <br />development, including housing, on the <br />following two sites: <br /> Town Hall Square (block bounded by <br />Davis, Hays, and East 14th) <br /> Former Albertsons Supermarket (1550 East <br />14th Street) <br />The City will continue working to acquire (the <br />Town Hall Square site) from willing sellers. <br />The Downtown TOD strategy identified the <br />site as having the potential for as many as 148 <br />housing units, with ancillary ground floor <br />commercial uses. <br />REPLACE. The former Albertson’s site is being <br />redeveloped as The Village, a retail project. The Town <br />Hall Square site remains a viable mixed use site. A <br />new opportunity will be created when the CVS on E. <br />14th at Davis Street relocates to The Village. The <br />Davis Street site will be added to the housing <br />opportunity site inventory. <br />53.06-A Facilitate the completion of the following <br />affordable housing projects before June 30, <br />2014: <br /> The 100-unit Alameda at San Leandro <br />Crossings Development for very low <br />income families. <br /> The 51-unit Estabrook Place Senior <br />Housing Development for very low <br />income seniors. <br />REPLACE. As noted earlier, the 100-unit Crossings <br />project is now scheduled for development as a 200-unit <br />affordable development on the BART station parking <br />lot. BRIDGE Housing received Low Income Housing <br />Tax Credit funding in June 2014 to support the project <br />and construction will begin shortly. The City received <br />over $20 million in Prop 1C funds from the State of <br />California to assist in the development of infrastructure <br />to support this project. <br /> <br />The Estabrook project was completed in 2010. <br />53.06-B Develop strategies to attract additional market <br />rate rental apartment development to San <br />Leandro. This could include direct outreach <br />to developers, and incentives to encourage <br />apartment development on key opportunity <br />sites. The City is particularly interested in <br />market rate rentals that meet the needs of <br />moderate-income young professionals, given <br />the limited range of options for such persons <br />in San Leandro today. <br />ADVANCE. This program continues to be relevant, <br />particularly with the redesign of the Cornerstone <br />project to exclude market rate housing. The City will <br />continue to work with developers to attract market rate <br />rentals to the City, with a focus on the TOD areas. <br />