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Staff Report for a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Memorandum of Understanding Between the City and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) for the East Bay Corridors Initiative
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
ABAG seeks to implement the East Bay Corridors Initiative (Initiative) to create a regional and coordinated approach to planning and investment along major transit-oriented areas, including East 14th Street and San Leandro Boulevard, in cities and unincorporated areas within Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano counties. There are two major corridors under the Initiative: the Oakland-Union City Corridor and the San Pablo Corridor. San Leandro falls under the former. The Oakland-Union City Corridor includes Oakland, San Leandro, Hayward, and Union City, as well as Alameda County. The San Pablo Corridor includes Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito, Richmond, San Pablo, Pinole, Hercules and Contra Costa County.
The purpose of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to define and formalize the working relationship among regional and local agencies. No funding commitment from participants is required to join the Initiative. Staff recommends that the City Council authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to execute the ABAG East Bay Corridor MOU.
BACKGROUND
ABAG and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) adopted Plan Bay Area in the summer of 2013. Plan Bay Area is an integrated land use and transportation strategy to accommodate the region's projected population, housing and job growth between 2010 and 2040 to achieve State targets for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Plan Bay Area is based primarily on the Priority Development Areas (PDAs) in the nine county San Francisco Bay Region. PDAs are locally-driven land use planning programs administered by ABAG for sustainable development near transit-oriented areas.
Plan Bay Area projects that PDAs along major corridor...
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