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$AN City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: February 17, 2015 <br />Resolution - Council <br />File Number: 15-069 Agenda Section: CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number: <br />TO: City Council <br />FROM: Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY: Cynthia Battenberg <br />Community Development Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW: Not Applicable <br />TITLE: RESOLUTION Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Memorandum of <br />Understanding Between the City and the Association of Bay Area <br />Governments (ABAG) for the East Bay Corridors Initiative, to Coordinate a <br />Regional Approach Towards Enhancing East Bay Priority Development Areas <br />Under Plan Bay Area <br />WHEREAS, the City of San Leandro (City) applied to the Association of Bay Area <br />Governments (ABAG), the Council of Government for the San Francisco Bay Area, for <br />designation of the following neighborhoods in the City as Priority Development Areas (PDAs): <br />Downtown San Leandro and East 14th Street; and <br />WHEREAS, ABAG designated these neighborhoods as PDAs and adopted Plan Bay <br />Area, an integrated land use and transportation strategy to accommodate the region's <br />projected population, housing and job growth between 2010 and 2040 based on PDAs; and <br />WHEREAS, the City and other Jurisdictions of Alameda, Solano and Contra Costa <br />Counties (collectively, the Corridor Jurisdictions) have PDAs within their communities that <br />form a geographical and land use alignment referred to as the East Bay Corridor ( Exhibit A); <br />and <br />WHEREAS, the staff of the Corridor Jurisdictions and ABAG have been collaborating to <br />identify a preliminary set of inter -jurisdictional strategies for implementing local and regional <br />planning objectives for each segment of the corridor in an effort referred to as the East Bay <br />Corridors Initiative; and <br />WHEREAS, the staff of the Corridor Jurisdictions and ABAG recommend that the Corridor <br />Jurisdictions and ABAG continue to coordinate on the development of multi -jurisdictional <br />strategies to create a network of thriving neighborhoods and downtowns in Corridor PDAs, <br />including but not limited to the subgroups that comprise the Oakland -Union City Corridor and <br />the San Pablo Corridor; and <br />City of San Leandro Page 1 Printed on 2/11/2015 <br />