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. 4 ' PERMIT NO. 1989.014.05 , City of San Leandro (Originally Issued on March 7, 1990, As Amended Through May 2, 2016) AMENDMENT NO. FIVE Page 19 Views available at the site will be enhanced as the project will modify currently degraded areas and restore them to marshlands. The project will also result in higher quality wildlife habitat which will likely improve fishing and bird watching at the site. Therefore, the Commission finds that, as conditioned,the use of the site as a marsh area which includes public access to and along the shoreline, and which provides for public recreational opportunities as identified in the San Francisco Bay Plan policies on recreation,the project is consistent with the Waterfront Beach-Park Priority Land Use Area designation and the McActeer-Petris Act. B. Public Access For Original Permit Through Amendment No. Four.The Bay Plan Policies on Public Access require that maximum feasible public access be provided, consistent with a project, in conjunction with new development in the Bay and on the shoreline. Because the Marina Facilities Replacement Project site is an existing municipal marina,the public currently has access at the site. There is ample public parking, restrooms, and an asphalt path that extends along all four sides of the marina. Landscaping is minimal. The Marina Facilities Replacement Project will upgrade the existing marina, and could potentially attract the public to the shoreline, creating a demand for enhanced public access. To meet this demand, the permittee will both enhance the existing public access on the shoreline of the north and west dikes, and provide a permanent guarantee of public access to these areas.The other portions of the site are not considered part of this project, and will not be improved for public access. To enhance existing public access, the permittee will replace the asphalt path with either concrete or pavers, add small plaza/off-loading areas at the entrance to each new marina dock, install planter boxes with shade trees, landscape the edge of the pathway near the top of the riprap, and provide drinking fountains and other amenities along the pathway. Special Condition II.F requires that the public access area including the pathways and landscaping be permanently guaranteed as public access,that the new pathways, benches, drinking fountains, bollard lights, and signs, be installed, and that the public access facilities be maintained by the permittee. The Commission's Design Review Board evaluated the Marina Facilities Replacement Project on October 22, 1989, and again on November 6, 1989. At the meeting of October 22, 1989, the Board indicated that the plans submitted were insufficient to allow an adequate review of the public access, and requested that the permittee come for a second review with additional plans. The permittee prepared additional plans and returned to the Board on November 6, 1989. At that meeting, the Board stated that the public access improvements proposed as part of the upgrade of the marina berths would provide the maximum feasible public access consistent with the project.