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HistoricalAdvisoryBoard | 2021-05-06 | 6 | demolition back then the measure would have lost that vote. He pointed out that the only other time a building was delisted and demolished in Alameda, a Victorian for a parking lot, those findings were also based on a Page & Turnbull report. He pointed out the applicant was complaining about cost after the Federal Government had offered these buildings to help the homeless and now the applicant was saying they had no use for these buildings. He believed the HAB should vote to keep the buildings on the Study List and preserve and reuse them. Harvey Rosenthal addressed some misstatements made in regards to the project. He felt the statement that the opponents of this project had been fine with the buildings being torn down for open space was not true. The open space initiative would have allowed the buildings to stay and be reused for the park. Secondly, the statement that from day one Building 1 was always going to be torn down. He pointed out that the applicant first applied to the Federal Government for these buildings to be reused. Public presentations were also provided by the applicant that discussed "Adaptive Reuse" and showed how each building would be reused. He felt that the public and the voters had been misled. He Approved HAB Meeting Minutes May 6, 2021 6 | HistoricalAdvisoryBoard/2021-05-06.pdf |