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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-07-25 | 2 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON Tuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m. Kerry Parker: So, for non-agenda. Speaker 3: Will be on the end. Elizabeth Kenny: Okay. Kerry Parker: Okay. 4. NEW BUSINESS Elizabeth Kenny: Alright. Let's move on to new business. Kerry Parker: I don't think we have any new business for tonight. 5. OLD BUSINESS CDI Universal Design Staff Report Elizabeth Kenny: And old business. First, we have Andrew Thomas, from the city planners to talk to us about the Universal Design Ordinance. Welcome Andrew. Andrew Thomas: Good evening, Chair Barrett [sic], members of the commission. My name is Andrew Thomas, I'm the Assistant Community Development Director for the City of Alameda. I am very happy to be here tonight to present to you our final draft of the first ever City of Alameda Universal Design Ordinance. This has been a long time coming. We made a promise to the Alameda community, to the Alameda City Council, and to this commission. It was almost five years ago to the date; July 2012, that we are going to create, as a community, a draft Universal Design Ordinance for Alameda and we are going to get it to you, city council, for your consideration. Now, we were sort of thinking within a year or SO. Andrew Thomas: It's been five. And it would not even be here at all if it weren't for the efforts of this commission and some of your former commissioners, Audrey Lord-Hausman, to just keep pushing this issue. And then pushing it also not only with the community and with the staff but also with your Planning Board. And the City of Alameda Planning Board really embraced this idea five years ago, and was also pushing us and we have David Burton here from the Planning Board, former chair of the Planning Board who's also been very instrumental in getting this draft to this state. About three weeks ago, the Alameda Planning Board. Let me just back up for a minute. You then set up a sub-committee for the new members here. Your board in about a year, or so ago, identified a sub-committee to work with a sub-committee from the Planning Board to bring this over the finish line, and that sub-committee did just that. And the Planning Board, the full Planning Board, recommended this draft ordinance to the city council last month. Andrew Thomas: This draft ordinance it is really the result of your work, your members, your constituents. And the Planning Board is going to city council with a recommendation from the Planning Board, and what I would like to get tonight from this board is your recommendation on October 11, 2017 Page 2 of 13 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf |