Reso 2024-056 CSA Good City Company

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IN THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO RESOLUTION NO. 2024-056 RESOLUTION TO APPROVE AND AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONSULTING SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH GOOD CITY COMPANY IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $350,000 FOR PREPARATION OF THE BAY FAIR COMMUNITY BASED TRANSPORTATION PLAN; AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDING FOR SAID AGREEMENT (ACTC GRANT FUNDED) WHEREAS, in May 2014, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (“MTC”) awarded the City of San Leandro (the “City”) an MTC Priority Development Area (“PDA”) Planning Grant (“PDA Grant”) in the amount of $440,000 to prepare the Bay Fair Transit-Oriented Development (“TOD”) Specific Plan (“Specific Plan”); and WHEREAS, the PDA Program is a voluntary partnership between local governments, MTC and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) to nominate areas served by transit that can accommodate future housing, jobs, and community amenities and provide a dedicated share of regional funding for local planning and capital improvements in PDAs; and WHEREAS, on February 20, 2018, the City Council adopted the Specific Plan after a broad-based community engagement effort to establish a vision and development framework for the area’s future as a mixed-use TOD; and WHEREAS, in 2018, the City of San Leandro established the Bay Fair TOD PDA; and WHEREAS, the Bay Fair TOD Specific Plan Area (“Specific Plan Area”) encompasses 154 acres generally bound by East 14th Street to the northeast, Hesperian Boulevard to the west, and the border between the City and unincorporated Alameda County to the south and southwest; and WHEREAS, the Specific Plan implements the City’s General Plan, which identifies the Specific Plan Area as one of the City’s most significant areas of potential change, and envisions the area as a dynamic, walkable, transit-oriented area with a mix of uses; and WHEREAS, in 2020, the City Council adopted Specific Plan amendments, and in 2021, Adopted Zoning Code Chapter 2.10, Bay Fair Transit-Oriented Development (B-TOD) District, to implement the Specific Plan and identify the standards for development within the Specific Plan Area; and WHEREAS, the Specific Plan and Zoning Code enable the development of a mixed-use urban village that supports housing, retail, office, entertainment, and civic uses with safe pedestrian and bicycle connections to public transit, services and employers; and WHEREAS, the Community Based Transportation Plan (CBTP) program was launched in 2002 by MTC to identify transportation challenges in equity communities around the region and strategies to overcome them; and