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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 3 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Doug Biggs: Yes. The test are all referred in, checked in, checked out. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: Okay. And then it sounds like you mentioned you don't really need approval from the community, and I guess that means the City because it's all through state and federal funding, but as far as the satellite medical and behavioral wellness clinic, you mentioned that that's for City of Alameda residents. Doug Biggs: The Resource Center is for City of Alameda residents. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: Oh, it is, okay, so will there be City funding or do you need anything from the City? Doug Biggs: The city has already allocated some funding for it $100,000 a year and that was approved by the Council as part of their homeless policy report that they accepted about five or six months ago. We're really going to be looking for private donations to operate that. The Realtors Association is interested in setting up a fund, some of the corporations because they're having a hard time keeping people housed, they're interested in donating to a fund for that. We want it to be as few strings attached as possible if we were to take federal funding for the Resource Center then we have to serve everybody. We don't really want to be in that position, we want to focus on Alamedans. So we're going to be doing a lot of private fund raising for that. Doug Biggs: I will also mention though that the areas where the City does have some authority over this is, the land is currently zoned Administrative Professional, which allows all of the uses we're proposing, but it has a G overlay which means a government overlay, because it's owned by the government now. When that property is transferred to us then the City has to remove that G overlay, that's going to be going before the Planning Board October 8th, and it'll be going to City Council probably in one of their November meetings, we're not sure what yet. It's an administrative procedure because they can't again, by right, deny us removal of the G overlay because we're not the government. They just can't keep it on, but it will be one of the opportunities for anybody to come out and speak in opposition of the project or in favor of the project, and that's fine. I think people need their concerns need to be heard, and we need to know kind of what, how folks want a program to run well. There will also be a design review process and again, as I said, we want to bring some of the designs to you as well, the Planning Board will approve the designs, there will always be, there could be an appeal applied for those in the City Council, could further review. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: Sure. Can you categorize the opponents of this project, generally what their issues are with it? Doug Biggs: So the primary opponents of the projects are from the two gated condominiums on either side: Park Webster, in front of the project and Crown Harbor behind it. When the first federal property was declared surplus, they led the effort to make sure it was It was originally, the city was originally going to sell it to a developer, for market redevelopment. Crab Cove very clearly had an interest in that piece of the property and they were able to mobilize the community to stop that from happening and overturn it, and the property was eventually sold to the East Bay Regional Parks. GSA should have done that to begin with. They didn't, they were kind of caught in doing that 09/12/18 Page 3 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |