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CityCouncil | 2021-11-02 | 7 | consultant contracts; the contract being considered presently helps with public outreach, website, and documents; Cultivate is not a graphics firm; staff holds a contract with Urban Design Associates, which provides drawings; staff can request more video and visual simulations; the option to provide the visual graphics Citywide is interesting; there is a Housing Element workshop on November 16th and he can provide a recommendation at the workshop. Councilmember Herrera Spencer stated that she is happy that the Planning Board is also thinking about visual simulations; the visual aids help conceptualize projects as opposed to the drawings; noted many times people lament the difference between actual project outcomes versus the drawings; Council should be doing the most to help be as transparent as possible in showing impacts. Councilmember Herrera Spencer moved approval of the staff recommendation. Councilmember Knox White seconded the motion, which carried by the following roll call vote: Councilmembers Daysog: Aye; Herrera Spencer: Aye; Knox White: Aye; Vella: Aye; and Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft: Aye. Ayes: 5. REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS (21-694) Recommendation to Provide Direction on the Provision of Housing for the City's Unhoused Population, Including Emergency Housing, Transitional Supportive Housing, Permanent Supportive Housing and Prospective Homeless Housing Projects. The Community Development Director gave a brief presentation. Councilmember Daysog inquired whether there is a reason the hotel/motel site is not specified in option number three. The Community Development Director responded staff has not yet identified a location; stated at Council's request, staff put out a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Marina Village Inn; no responses were received; a Housing Authority proposal has been received for another property; however, a negotiated, written agreement is not yet pinned down; staff is continuing to investigate options and will return with more concrete options. Expressed concern about placing all of the Project Home Key projects on the West End; urged a more equitable distribution of projects throughout the community; expressed support for choosing Village of Love for the 30 families option, for funding a 90-unit north housing project and for developing the Rodeway Inn or Coral Reef Hotel as a mixed-use, mixed-community, gateway project using Project Home Key funding; urged the City look at other areas for projects: Karen Bey, Alameda. Expressed support for comments provided by Speaker Bey; stated staff continues to view the West End as the area to be developed for homeless projects; urged Council to remember that equity has been brought up and agreed upon by the City Council as a goal; stated the Road Home includes counselors as a device to help the unhoused individuals transition into permanent housing; the solution is permanent housing, which does not exist; urged Council focus on permanent housing going forward; expressed support for the permanent housing not creating a concentration of poverty, and for the North Housing site; urged the City to partner with the Housing Authority: Marilyn Alwan, Alameda. Regular Meeting Alameda City Council November 2, 2021 4 | CityCouncil/2021-11-02.pdf |