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Home My WebLink AboutMINUTES - 03062001 - D.3 I; J ` "Di3 �,.,. . Contra Costa TO: REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY/BOARD OF SUPERVISORS County FROM: John Sweeten, Executive Director Dennis M. Barry, AICP, Director of Community Development DATE: March 6, 2001 SUBJECT: Pleasant Hill BART Greenspace Project SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATIONS(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS 1. As the Board of Supervisors: a) APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the General Services Director or his designee to execute a Funding Agreement for the Pleasant Hill BART Greenspace Project with the Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency; b) AUTHORIZE the disbursement from time-to-time of all Park Dedication Funds from accounts 8136-2755034001, 8136-275533822, 8136-373503240, & 8136-373503381 in an aggregate amount not to exceed $700,000; C) AUTHORIZE the General Services Director or his designee to enter into a final design contract for the Greenspace Project with Singer and Fukushima Landscape Architects, Inc.; d) AUTHORIZE the Director of General Services and the Director of Community Development, or their designees,tatake such other actions as are necessary to implementthe terms of the Funding Agreement; e) AUTHORIZE the establishment of a Special Revenue Fund for Greenspace maintenance; and f) FIND that the Final Environmental Impact Report for the Amendments to the Pleasant Hill BART Station Area Specific Plan(the custodian of which is the Redevelopment Agency and is located at 651 Pine Street, 5th Floor North Wing, Martinez), which was certified on October 6, 1998, adequately covered the environmental effects of the proposed project(per Section 15168(c)(4) of the CEQA Guidelines); g) DIRECT the Director of Community Development to file a Notice of Determination and a Certificate of Fee Exemption: De Minimis Impact Finding with the County Clerk; h) DIRECT the Redevelopment Director to arrange for payment of the $25.00 handling fee to the County Clerk. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _X_YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ECOMM DATION OF GENCY COMMITTEE APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE(S): ACTION OF AGENCY/ON March 6 . 2001 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED xx OTHER xx BOARD SEE THE ATTACHED ADDENDUM FOR BOARD ACTION VOTE OF COMMISSIONERS/SUPERVISO AND VOTE I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A UNANIMOUS (ABSEN ) TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF AN AYES: )ES: ACTION TAKEN AND ENTERED ON THE ABSENT: ABSTAIN: MINUTES OF THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY/BOARD ON THE DATE SHOWN. ontact: Jim Kennedy 335-1255 fol a tJ ATTESTED M n r r h Fie 9 n n i cc: County Administrator JOHN SWEETEN County Counsel AGENCY SECRETARY AND THE CLERK General Services-Architectural Division OF THE BOARD Public Works-Special Districts Auditor-Controller BY , DEPUTY Community Development W:personal\BoardOrders\BOSR DA2.27.P H BART.greenspace RECOMMENDATIONS 2. As the Governing Board of the Redevelopment Agency: a) APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Deputy Director-Redevelopment to execute a Funding Agreement with Contra Costa county for the Pleasant Hill BART Greenspace Project; b) AUTHORIZE the Deputy Director-Redevelopment to take such other actions as are necessary to implement the terms of the Funding Agreement. FISCAL IMPACT No General Funds are involved. The costs of the project are to be borne by the Redevelopment Agency and County Park Dedication Funds. Small donations of private funds are included in these funds. Total project costs are approximately$2.1 million,of which$1.5 million is for improvements, $250,000 is for a capitalized maintenance funds, and the remainder is for a final design contract and construction management. BACKGROUND/REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS The conversion of the Iron Horse Corridor in the vicinity of the Pleasant Hill BART Station Area was part of the October,1998 amended Pleasant Hill BART Station Area Specific Plan. Its implementation was part of the project analyzed as part of the Final EIR. Implementation of the Pleasant Hill BART Greenspace project will occur upon a determination that the removal of current temporary spaces have been adequately mitigated. Mitigations shall be available and operating in order to proceed with construction of the Greenspace project. Final design can proceed prior to the mitigation program for the temporary parking. The Greenspace project will make use of the Iron Horse Corridor(the former Southern Pacific railroad right-of-way)to provide an open space amenity in the Pleasant Hill BART Station Area. The project has been subject to a preliminary community design process, and is consistent with the Iron Horse Corridor Management Program,the licenses and easements for utilities that are beneath the corridor, and the County contract with the State of California to preserve the corridor for future transit. W:personal\BoardOrders\BOSRDA2.27.P H BART.greenspace ADDENDUM TO ITEM D.3 March 6, 2001 On this date, the Board of Supervisors/Commissioners considered the Pleasant Hill BART Greenspace Project, as presented by John Sweeten, County Administrator and Dennis Barry, Director of Community Development. Jim Kennedy, Redevelopment Agency Deputy-Director, presented the staff report and background. The Board/Commissioners discussed the issues. The Chair called for public comments, and the following people appeared to speak: Steve Roberti, 1834 Del Rio Drive, Diablo Valley Commuter Alliance, Lafayette; Ted Pierce, Diablo Valley Commuter Alliance, 3572 Eris Court, Walnut Creek; Peter Duncan, 112 Roble Road, Walnut Creek; Lynette Tannero Busby, Contra Costa Center Association, 1350 Treat Blvd., #18, Walnut Creek; Kris Hunt, Walden District Improvement Association, 2632 Cherry Lane, Walnut Creek. Those desiring to speak having been heard, and following the Boards'/Commissioners' continued discussion, Supervisor DeSaulnier moved the staffs recommendations. Supervisor Gerber seconded the motion, and requested as a friendly amendment that Mr. Kennedy follow-up on Peter Duncan's suggestion regarding the other portion of the Iron Horse Trail, as offered today. Supervisor DeSaulnier agreed to the amendment. Following further comments, and by unanimous vote, the Board/Commissioners took the following action: APPROVED staffs recommendations; and DIRECTED that the Community Development Department follow-up on the suggestions made this day by Peter Duncan. J4V .,.__Members of the Board: Al) ECEIVED I am Peter Duncan, I am a Member of the County' s Iron o Management Program Advisory Committee and also of the Redevelopment Agency's Greenspace design committee. MAR 62001 A. In 1997 , the Board asked for a Management Program to c MerSOAMF SUPERVISORS 18-and-a-half miles of the Iron Horse Corridor. when 296STACO- adopted the Landscape. Element of that program last October, you specifically asked Staff to find funds to implement it - how to pay for the beautification and landscaping of the old SP Right of Way. Funding is always a problem especially for maintenance. And on 6 October 1998 you approved the Specific Plan for the Pleasant Hill Redevelopment area, including a piece of the Iron Horse project within it. That came from a lot of planning, and a lot of traffic studies and EIR's & hundreds of hours of public meetings. And when you approved the Specific Plan, you added a rider to make this half mile of long-delayed Greenspace into the Pilot landscaping project for the entire 18 and a half miles of the Iron Horse Management Program. The Pilot got delayed again, past your due date, while staff and volunteers worked out the Greenspace conceptual landscaping design and some other problems. — But, -m0& the Redevelopment Agency has now devised financial mechanisms IT, ;�r its half mile of Greenspace. This model will be t a great help in finding funding for the other 18 miles. So, this recommendation is good, useful stuff. Please fund it. Let' s get a good start on what has so far been wearisome work ,W14164Mwith little landscaped result in the ground. (pause) Now, the Greenspace .under discussion was described in the original Specific Plan as "open space to protect the natural resources of the area" . That has been delayed by a succession of emergency measures of various kinds and is long overdue. Also, the other 5 acres or so of open-space originally set aside by the Board at that time have been lost to BART construction and to roads. That delay & loss of a community's open space should be mitigated. One way to mitigate it, would be to extend this Greenspace to meet the new landscaping & Trail crossing between Hookston and Mayhew. Redevelopment' s financial models could be used to pay for some of the mitigation, perhaps BART, the major beneficiary of the loss and delay, could be persuaded to contribute. �+>Tr i Can you now order that such a mitigation,4 extended Greenspace be made? 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