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PlanningBoard | 2011-01-24 | 5 | mentioned that the Navy has been cleaning the land during this entire time and expect to have most of the property clean enough to transfer by 2013, by 2018, under the current schedule all of it will be clean enough to transfer. Lastly he thanked President Ezzy Ashcraft who sat on the panel for the Land Use interviews and Board member Zuppan who sat on the panel for the Economists interviews for their help. The City received over 40 responses on the Land Use RFP and narrowed it down to the 12 highest qualified whom were then interviewed. Staff will be recommending to Council on February 15, 2011 to enter into a contract with Perkins + Will a firm out of San Francisco. They worked on the Alameda Landing Project in the past and are very knowledgeable about Alameda and some of the issues at the Naval Air Station. He reported that they had 6 interviews for an Economist and a selection has not yet been made. Also selected are ARUP, one of the leading firms on sustainable developments and Nelson/Nygaard, one of the leading firms on transportation demand management will be assisting with traffic management. He mentioned that the goal is to have a summary report on the "Going Forward" process to the community and Council in March or April and have first draft of a series of alternatives for community discussion and consideration after that and then a report for ARRA consideration and endorsement in July. He stressed that it is very important to get a project description and alternatives completed by July. President Ezzy Ashcraft added that Thor Kaslofsky, the Project Manager for the Hunter's Point Redevelopment Project sat on the panel and it was good to hear that projects like this do eventually get going. Mr. Thomas also reported that the City is responding to an RFP for a second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in March. The land being proposed for the LBNL is in the southern area of Alameda Point near the Maritime Administration (MARAD) Fleet. Vice President Aurorino asked if the proposal goes through and the LBNL is built in that area is it not then deciding the use in that area. President Ezzy Ashcraft mentioned that during the panel interviews it was mentioned that the City needs to stay flexible and if an opportunity presents itself it could be a game changer for the project. Vice President Aurorino agrees on the need for flexibility but warns that the City is saying that they are going to use the community input to decide what is going to be built at Alameda Point and then turns around and say but this is going here. He feels that the community would welcome the addition of LBNL and the City should look for input from the community but are not necessarily going to do everything that the community wants. The APPROVED MEETING MINUTES 5 OF 8 PLANNING BOARD 1/24/2011 | PlanningBoard/2011-01-24.pdf |