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PlanningBoard | 2021-07-12 | 13 | on this proposed change. She wanted to see more work done to reach out to the communities about proposed commercial development especially Bay Farm and Harbor Bay. She recommended sending out a survey to those communities and having an open dialogue with them. Lesa Ross wanted to find her way through all of these issues. She was a homeowner at CHBIOA and was a Harbor Point HOA Board Member. Her main concern was changing their recreational area into a mixed-use, property at Harbor Bay Club. She discussed the importance and the benefits of the club, the pool especially, for so many people. She added that this was a community asset and urged the board to save the pool, the childcare, and the grassy area. She added that so many people had no idea what was going to happen and advocated for more communication. President Teague closed public comment and opened the board commentary. Board Member Rothenberg reiterated how proud she was to have participated in this plan, it had gotten better and better and was a credit to everyone. She noted how much time they had spent on June 14th about the Harbor Bay Zoning, she had in her notes that it could be rezoned to different zoning. The zoning that was shown in the General Plan was what was in the books but it didn't preclude zoning it for continued use. She thought it had a lot of merit regarding the purpose in the General Plan, she thought it was timely since so many people had mentioned it. Director Thomas clarified the questions around the Harbor Bay Zoning. The zoning was what governed what you could do with your property and it currently had mixed-use zoning. What they had done in this General Plan was if the future of the Harbor Bay Club was going to change it would change because of the city's RHNA allocation and the Housing Element. They absolutely needed to tackle that as part of the Housing Element conversation. Since they had not even gotten to the Housing Element yet, they recommended that they change it from what was in the original draft to community mixed- use; they had applied this to any property in Alameda that was zoned C2 mixed-use. He explained how the General Plan was a lot bigger than just housing however everybody wanted to talk about housing. He again discussed the staff's thoughts about getting the General Plan out and adopted then tackling the Housing Element. Board Member Rothenberg thanked him for recapping this information. She also asked about the timing and Mr. Buckley's suggestion about presenting the General Plan and the Housing Element at the same time. She did understand why staff would want to present the General Plan first and then the Housing Element. Director Thomas said this was how the staff wanted to sequence things, they could do what Mr. Buckley suggested though. He said they all agreed on one thing, that all of the elements in the General Plan, Housing and Land Use, should all be internally consistent. The staff wanted to move forward with the Land Use Element and the rest of the General Plan and get it adopted, with the understanding that in a year they would amend it with the Housing Element. That would be when they tweak the land use classifications. He discussed more of the benefits of sequences items the way staff had recommended. Board Member Rothenberg asked about items in the AAPS's letter, such as the density change. She also thought that the comment about a Civic Center District had a lot of merit Approved Planning Board Minutes Page 13 of 18 July 12, 2021 | PlanningBoard/2021-07-12.pdf |