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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: February 20, 2018 <br />Resolution - Council <br />Agenda Section:File Number:18-065 PUBLIC HEARINGS <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 Certifying an Environmental Impact Report, and Adopting <br />Mitigation Findings, Alternatives Findings, a Statement of Overriding <br />Considerations, and a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program for the Bay <br />Fair Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Specific Plan <br />WHEREAS, California Government Code Section 65300 et seq. requires every city and <br />county in California to adopt a general plan for its long-range development, and further, to <br />periodically update that plan to reflect current conditions and issues; and <br />WHEREAS; in 2016, the City Council adopted the San Leandro 2035 General Plan; and <br />WHEREAS, Government Code Section 65450 et seq. permits a city to adopt a specific <br />plan for the implementation of the general plan for part of the area covered by the general plan; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, the Bay Fair TOD Specific Plan Area encompasses 154 acres and is <br />generally bound by East 14th Street to the northeast, Hesperian Boulevard to the west, and the <br />border between the City and unincorporated Alameda County to the south and southwest (the <br />“Specific Plan Area”); and <br />WHEREAS, the Bay Fair BART Station and parking lots, Bayfair Center shopping mall, <br />Fairmont Square and Fashion Faire Place shopping areas, and portions of the Hesperian and <br />East 14th corridors are included within the Specific Plan Area; and <br />WHEREAS, the City initiated a process to develop a vision, policies, standards and <br />implementation strategies for the Specific Plan Area through the Development of the Bay Fair <br />TOD Specific Plan (the “Specific Plan”), in collaboration with Alameda County, BART, the owners <br />of the Bayfair Center shopping mall Madison Marquette, and the public; and <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 2/13/2018 <br />50