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File Number: 20-462 <br />dredging of the harbor was performed around 1997. <br />As the Marina silted in and the water became more shallow and less navigable, the conversation <br />eventually turned to options for redevelopment of the area. The City solicited development <br />proposals and in 2008, signed an exclusive negotiating agreement with Cal Coast Companies <br />(Cal Coast) to redevelop the area. That same year, the City formed the Shoreline Citizens <br />Advisory Committee (SCAC) to provide input and guide the design of the development. Over the <br />next three years, dozens of public meetings were held and the community developed goals for the <br />project. In 2012, the project scope was well defined, the SCAC was dissolved and a subgroup <br />consisting of a portion of the original committee formed the Shoreline Advisory Group (SAG) to <br />continue to provide input on the project. <br />Cal Coast developed an initial plan in 2015 but subsequent conversations with the San Francisco <br />Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) revealed that significant work would <br />be required to protect the proposed improvements against sea level rise, rendering the plan too <br />expensive. Cal Coast developed a second plan in 2017 which included a public park on the <br />Marina jetties rather than hotel and conference facilities. Public meetings were held in 2017 to <br />get input on the park and negotiations began on an agreement with Cal Coast for the project. <br />These negotiations culminated in a Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA) that was <br />executed in 2020. The DDA specifies that Cal Coast will purchase a portion of the 9-hole golf <br />course for approximately 200 homes and will lease land for an apartment building consisting of <br />approximately 285 units as well as for a hotel consisting of approximately 210 rooms. Cal Coast <br />will reconfigure the 9-hole golf course and improve Monarch Bay Drive. The City will receive <br />about $29,000,000 for the land sale and, depending on the cost of park improvements <br />constructed by the developer, may also receive park development fees. The City will also receive <br />annual revenue from the lease of the property and hotel occupancy tax. As part of the agreement, <br />the City is obligated to deconstruct the Marina, construct a park along the Marina jetties, and <br />construct a new Mulford-Marina branch library. <br />BKF has worked for Cal Coast up to this point and have developed preliminary plans for the Park. <br />In order to protect the park from sea level rise, the jetties will need to be raised about 3 feet which <br />will require many truckloads of dirt. Cal Coast plans to import soil to preload or compress the <br />existing site before constructing their new buildings and this preload soil will be excess once the <br />compression period is over. Cal Coast has offered to deliver this excess dirt to the park site <br />when they are finished with it, provided the park site is ready to accept the dirt.. <br />Analysis <br />The City must deconstruct the functionally obsolete and deteriorating components of the Marina <br />and build a park on the jetties to satisfy the terms of the DDA. Typically, the City would solicit <br />proposals and select a consultant for design of the entire project; however, on this project, staff <br />proposes to split the design into two phases. The first phase will develop plans for a park that are <br />sufficiently detailed for the City and regulatory agencies to approve the project. These plans will <br />also allow the project budget to be determined more accurately. The second phase will produce <br />documents suitable for permitting and construction of the work. Splitting the design contract <br />allows the City to proceed quickly with conceptual design and still use a competitive recruitment <br />for selection of a design firm to produce construction documents. <br />Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 11/11/2020