DATE: June 28, 2022
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Acting Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT
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Sale of Parcel Group 8 for Development of Affordable Housing: Adopt a Resolution Approving the Government Code Section 52201 Summary Report for the Project; and Authorizing the City Manager to Negotiate and Execute a Disposition, Development, and Loan Agreement with RCD GP IV, LLC and Parcel Group 8, L.P. for Transfer of Specified City Owned Properties and for the Development of Housing and Making Specified Findings in Association with Government Code Section 65913.4 Exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
That Council holds a public hearing and adopts a resolution (Attachment III) approving the Government Code Section 52201 Summary Report for the project (Attachment IV) and authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a Disposition Development and Loan Agreement (DDA) and related documents, with Resources for Community Development (Developer) for the transfer of specified properties and for the development of new affordable housing and rehabilitation of units for affordable housing, finding the project is consistent with prior California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) determinations.
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SUMMARY
After abandoning the State Route 238 Bypass Project in the 1970s, Caltrans began selling parcels that had previously been acquired for the planned freeway. In order to ensure that future development of the State Route 238 parcels located in Hayward align with the City's land use policies and overall vision, the City negotiated a Purchase and Sale Agreement (PSA) with Caltrans in 2016 to manage the disposition and development of former right of way for the now defunct 238 Bypass. The City-controlled State Route 238 properties are divided into ten "parcel groups."
On September 15, 2020, the Council provided authorization for the City Manager to negotiate and e...
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