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PlanningBoard | 2011-04-25 | 4 | Motion made by board member Ibsen, seconded by board member Kohlstrand, to approve the project as amended. Approved 5-0. 9-C Review and Comment on Staff's Preliminary Responses to the Regional Sustainable Communities Strategy - Initial Vision Scenario. Board member Zuppan pointed out that the study did not take into account the changes in the population age mix, nor the change in business operations, i.e. people telecommute more frequently now. She found the study to be inadequate. Board member Kohlstrand thought that the study did encompass major shifts in education, business operations, and population trends. She stated that the purpose of the ABAG plan was to establish competitive housing in-fill rates in the Bay Area so that work-related commuting distances were reduced from the valley areas. She supported this effort. Board member Wallis pointed out that the study lacks an evaluation of public health impacts and intergenerational behavioral shifts in the general population. Board member Kohlstrand stated that transportation constitutes about 40 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions in the State. She reasoned that compacter development is important to counter that transportation impact. She supported the comments suggested by Planning Staff. In addition, she requested that the letter point out the things that Alameda is already doing to counter greenhouse gas emissions and develop housing units. She believes that establishing housing values to concentrate development in the existing bay region is important as oppose to seeing development out in the valley areas which the bay area then has to serve. She also emphasized that the Regional Transportation Plan needs to include the efforts that will occur at Alameda Point. Board member Zuppan seconded comments made and stated that Alameda Municipal Power operations should be included in the comments on the Initial Vision Scenario. No action taken on this item. 9-D Review and Comment on Summary Report for the Community Planning Process for Alameda Point. Mr. Thomas, Planning Services Manager, provided an overview of the planning process and summarized the findings made in the summary report. President Ezzy Ashcraft opened the public comment period. Ms. Karen Bey, Alameda resident, spoke in favor of keeping the ferry terminal in the seaplane lagoon in the future plans. She believes that the ferry terminal location would be a pivotal instrument to counteract transportation impacts on Alameda. A ferry terminal would be essential to making Alameda Point a world-class development. She recommended that the planning process not cap the housing numbers too early, because housing generally can support the backbone infrastructure needed within a development. Ms. Pryor, Alameda resident, urged the board to include affordable housing so that all demographic groups would be able to afford living at the Alameda Point development. President Ezzy Ashcraft closed the public comment period. DRAFT MEETING MINUTES 4 of 5 PLANNING BOARD 4/25/2011 | PlanningBoard/2011-04-25.pdf |