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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 4 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. and the community prevailed. They have made the statement, and some of you may have seen they've been out there gathering signatures on an open space measure, to have this declared open space in the hope that it would also become parkland. Doug Biggs: East Bay Regional Parks has been adamant that they do not want the space, it's not in any of their master plans, it's not in any of their acquisition strategy, it just would not do anything to complete that park. The City of Alameda has also been very clear. Both entities also had the opportunity to apply for it the same time we did, and then they chose not to. There was one other applicant, it was another nonprofit from Los Angeles that applied for it. Doug Biggs: The level of concerns people have had are Some of the statements and if you check out the website Friends of Crab Cove, it's pretty clear there, a sense that Crab Cove is used by a lot of youth, and it is, and a lot of children, it is, we totally get that. There's a sense that those kids shouldn't be exposed to homelessness. I think we've gotten past that in this community, but also when you look at what the uses are, this is about as nonactive use as you can get. These are going to be people who are interested in medical recovery, not in being out partying all the time. They're going to be pretty fragile. So we think we put in an array of services that fit well with the community. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: Okay, thank you, those are all my questions. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Roloff. Vice Chair Barrett? Vice Chair Jenn Barrett: Thank you so much for coming to speak with us. I really enjoyed learning more about the program, and I'm looking forward to seeing it come into fruition, and thank you for asking such great questions. That was great. I don't have any, so thank you so much. Doug Biggs: Thank you. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you. Commissioner Deutsch? Commissioner Susan Deutsch: Thank you very much, this was very informative because I have seen people outside of supermarkets asking me to sign petitions and I didn't know that much about it, so I didn't sign. But those petitions are to get something on the ballot? And what if that passes? Doug Biggs: Good question. So first off, they've missed the deadline for getting it on this November's ballot. They missed that at least a month, maybe two months ago. And so the next ballot it could get on, assuming there's no other election is called and I'm not even going to get into that whole discussion now, but the next election, it could get on is two years from now. The general election in 2020. Way prior to that, we will actually own the land. I'm anticipating that we'll get a three-year lease but that'll automatically convert to a deed of trust which means we own the land, once the G overlay is removed. So, I'm expecting that'll occur in December or JanuaryOn one hand, it won't really matter if that gets changed to Open Space because it wouldn't take effect until we sold the property or we stopped using the property, whenever it is that we stopped doing it. It would just be like if somebody came in and changed the zoning for your house, as long as you're in your house, as long as you own it, it doesn't matter, you're grandfathered in. 09/12/18 Page 4 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |