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Request for Proposals (RFP) to develop a Climate Action Plan The City of East Palo Alto is seeking proposals from interested qualified organizations, academic institutions, and consulting firms to assist the City with developing a Climate Action Plan (CAP). Development of the CAP will involve community meetings and other forms of community input to develop a green-house gas emissions (GHG) reduction target, as well as reviewing the results of recently completed governmental-operations and community-wide GHG emissions inventories. Based on the baseline conditions and the resulting community-developed and City Council-approved reductions target (TBD), the consultant will prepare preliminary policy recommendations for community discussion and review, and eventual Council approval. Furthermore, the CAP will ultimately detail an implementation strategy that the City can use to meet reduction targets, including specific recommendations regarding potential internal and external sources of funding to achieve the CPA goals. For more information, please contact: East Palo Alto Tax Base and Expansion Analysis The City of East Palo Alto has grown very rapidly in the last 15 years. Despite its very rapid growth, from $789,000 in FY 99-00 to $2.4 million in FY 08-09, the City’s tax base is well below surrounding municipalities and the city’s per capita sales tax collections ($72 - 2008Q3) are less than half that of the County average ($159 - 2008Q3). In order to strategically continue expanding the City’s tax base while diversifying the sources of revenue to further strengthen the financial stability of the City, a critical and professional analysis of the current situation and potential opportunities was necessary in order to identify existing opportunities, develop community support for a targeted and methodic tax base growth strategy. More specifically, the goal of the Study is to evaluate the potential generation of revenue and identify the type of uses that can be attracted to specific opportunity areas in the City, identify specific sites and to develop a strategy to increase the City’s tax base, by at least $1.1 million, to accomplish the City Council adopted goal stated in the FY 08-09 Financial Plan, of matching projected city’s sales tax and property tax revenues to projected personnel costs. The study reviews the City’s existing tax base in the context of the surrounding economic setting. It reviews in detail the current retail market as well as non-retail potential target industries. It analyses East Palo Alto Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT analysis), and specifically reviews a number of potential opportunity sites in the five “opportunity areas”, which include 1) the Ravenswood Business District, 2) the Four Corners area, 3) the University Avenue corridor, 4) the Donohoe & University Avenue intersection, and 5) the 101 corridor. East Palo Alto Tax Base and Expansion Analysis (5.92MB PDF) For more information, please contact: Market Demand Analysis for the Ravenswood Business District (RBD) An updated Market Demand Analysis was undertaken to estimate the type and amount of demand for specific uses (office/office flex, retail, R &D, manufacturing, warehousing, and housing) that the City could attract and accommodate in the RBD. The results of the Study will also help to determine the timeline for the RBD to reach its full build-out potential, subject to development alternatives to be evaluated in a program EIR via the Dumbarton Rail Transit Station Specific Plan process that is expected to commence shortly. Market Demand Analysis for the Ravenswood District (354KB PDF) For more information, please contact: Ravenswood Business District -RBD PLANNING AND ENGINEERING
Draft RBD Engineering Plan Part 1 (2.05MB PDF) For more information, please contact: Draft East Palo Alto Bay Access Master Plan (BAMP) The Draft East Palo Alto Bay Access Master Plan (BAMP) creates a vision for Bay access that will guide East Palo Alto policy makers and BCDC. The vision created by the BAMP consists of a series of pocket parks along the Bay that are connected to each other and to Cooley Landing by pedestrian trails. The BAMP has three major goals. First, it assists the Bay Conservation Development Commission (BCDC) by prioritizing the Bay access projects that best reflect the needs of the existing and future residents of East Palo Alto. Second, it provides guidance to the East Palo Alto City Council and other relevant advisory and policy bodies as they analyze projects and plans in the RBD. Current and future policy makers will use the BAMP to help shape plans and projects along the Bay to provide maximum feasible public access. Third, it creates a vision of an “emerald necklace”
of open space that will increase the attractiveness of the new office
parks and communities planned for the RBD. Access to the Bay is
an important amenity that can enhance the commercial and residential
desirability of the RBD. Bay
Access Master Plan Final May 23, 2007 (2.0 MB pdf) 5 Year Implementation Plan The Redevelopment Agency Board adopted the 5 Year Implementation Plan on October 16, 2007. The Plan is available below.
If you have comments or questions, or if you would like to be notified of public meetings regarding the 5 Year Implementation Plan, please contact: Sean Charpentier, Redevelopment Project Coordinator II Relocation Plan for the University Palms Project
If you have comments or questions, or need additional information, please contact: Marie McKenzie Documents for the Fiscal Merger of the Ravenswood Industrial (RBD), Gateway 101 Corridor, and University Circle project areas; and the extension of RBD deadlines The Preliminary Report, the Draft Plan Amendments, and the Draft Amended and Restated RBD Plan are necessary to fiscally merge the Gateway 101, University Circle and Ravenswood Industrial Area (RBD) Redevelopment Project areas; extend the duration of Plan activities in the RBD by 10 years; extend the collection of tax increment and the repayment of debt in the RBD by 10 years; and extend the potential to use eminent domain in the RBD. Preliminary Report Fiscal Merger Information (6.43MB PDF) Report to Council Legal Notice 3/26/09 (319KB PDF) Joint Public Hearing 5 19 09 5 19 09 Final Staff Report Att 1 and 2 (534KB PDF) City Council Meeting 6 2 09 Staff Report & Att 1-8 (4.56MB PDF) For more information, please contact: University Corners (4 Corners) Project University Corner is a mixed use project with 115 residential units and 16,000 square feet of retail on the corner of University Avenue and Bay Road. 7 15 08 Staff Report Option DDA (5.63MB PDF) For more information, please contact: |
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In 2000, the City began working with the land owners in the RBD to prepare an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and an engineering plan. The Draft Engineering PLan for the RBD (DEPLAN) represents the completion of the engineering plan. City Staff will present the DEPLAN to the Planning Commission at its regular meeting on February 9, 2009. After receiving input from the Planning Commission, city staff will take the DEPLAN to the Council for adoption. 
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