18 May
2016
18 May
'16
9:04 p.m.
Dan Kalb (District 1 representative including omni and sudo room) hosted a
community meeting with the developers Nautilus Group tonight, and below are
the notes I took.
In particular, I was given a verabl agreement with Randy Miller (president
of Nautilus Group -- rmiller(a)nautilusgrp.com) that if we were impacted by
pests, such as rests, due to their demolition of the plot at 48th and
Shattuck Ave, they would be willing to compensate us for that. I told him
we would email a proper accounting of those costs. Please let me know if
you can help with that.
* Dan Kalb makes introduction, includes planners assigned to this project
** Mike & Darron
* Developers -- Nautilus Group
** Brian Caruso, John ? , Randy Miller, Charlie Testrum, Joseph Lee
* Dan is going to let Nautilus give an update, ask question, give comments,
etc
** Get to your point, make it clearly and articulately, as quickly as you
can. We'll take notes of course
** If you have questions, staff and nautilus Group
* Planning Commission Hearing 6pm on June 1st (Weds) @ City Hall
* Nautilus
** President -- Randy Miller, working on this project for 2.5 years
(actually)
*** I see a lot of familiar faces, some of you I don't believe we've spoken
to you before
*** The site itself has a much longer history
*** Former site of 1989-shut down Pussycat Porn Theater.
*** Global Video Store closed 7-8 years ago (or so)
*** Various development proposals for this site have been heard for ~10
years.
*** Acquired site in late 2013, implemented fairly large survey and survey
groups
*** Held a design competition to ask local architects to submit their
concepts
**** Then we developed our own design.
*** Been working with the city, and now it's scheduled to be heard before
planning commission.
*** It's not too late to make adjustments.
*** I will stay late to talk with anyone 1-on-1 if there's not time to
cover something.
*** We've razed the bank (video store project), and have a demonstration
project of urban farm.
*** Two levels of subterranean parking. Clarke st is proposed entrance.
*** 144 spaces of first level retail parking.
*** 2nd level is secured gate residential parking (~148 spaces)
*** 204 Residential units (including 17 below-market rate units) + ~30,000
ft of retail
**** Primary retail is grocery store, plus street-level retail
*** Town homes will face little frog park and claremont, as well as Clarke
at 51st st
*** 5 floors of apartments on top of the retail, stepping down toward Clarke
*** On top of project is urban farm with greenhouses incroporated.
*** Slide: 15 community meetings; Over 100 1-on-1 meetings, 13 open houses,
5 meetings with councilmember Kalb
* City of Oakland
** Planning Department - Mike Rivera
*** Working with applicant for a final design solution.
*** We studied w/ design review committee back in 2015 (sept 30th?)
*** City will be looking at land use issues and Sigua? issues --
documentation available on the city website
**** Impacts include: traffic, air quality, noise, aesthetics, shadow, and
this doc will be discussed at the commission, to which the public is
invited.
*** Applicant has consulted with staff, traffic consultant, and traffic
planner.
**** Based on the plan submitted by the applicant, including new / revised
sidewalk ramps around the site (ADA) and wider sidwalks on 51st and
telegraph.
**** Includes removing the slip lane at claremont and telegraph. This is a
narrow stretch and the goal is to eliminate that, revise the crosswalk, and
create a bulb-out.
***** The goal of the bulb-out is to provide more space for pedestrians.
**** New crosswalk on Clarke st & 51st, as well as on Clarke St at Redondo.
**** In addition to those improvements, the applicant is proposing to
remove the nose-something of the island at corner of 51st and telegraph.
**** Decorative landscaping on 51st aproaching Telegraph
**** Public use walkway at Claremont, through the property to Clarke street.
* Q & A
** What about the low-income units?
*** Price depends on number of people in family, should be 30% of annual
income (~50,000-$35,000 / year or below).
** Apartments are the plan, over condos at the time.
*** If condo demand was more substantial demand, they would change to for
sale.
*** Currently planning on apartments.
** Where are the low-income units going to be located?
*** Dispersed, price will be set by market by time project is completed.
*** $3k-$4k / mo range. Studios for $2500.
** Concern brought up that teachers and nurses can't afford these units.
*** Explanation is that there is an alternative to make more
moderately-affordable units, but that's going to take another year and they
don't want to do that.
** Teresa from Frog Park (friends of?)
*** Asked to move entrance to 51st st. Trucks have been moved to 51st st,
requesting residential and retail also enters the garage on 51st st.
*** The short st of Clarke has bad sightlines. This is going to be 100s of
people coming in and out every day with their cars.
*** Respectfully request to move all the entrances to 51st st.
** Traffic Review is available on city's website
** Concern about gridlock, traffic in event of an emergency
** At this point, most of these issues are being recorded rather than
responded to by the developer
** Will there be a caveat (covenant?) in the permit that prevents the
development unit residents from being eligible for permitted street parking?
** Will there be a wall to abate the noise / dust nuisance during
contstruction?
** 18-20 months is construction duration, have not resolved truck access
yet, have not yet made the construction management plan.
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