Speaker 1: The public hearing to consider adoption, a resolution adopting a mitigated negative declaration, mitigation, monitoring and reporting program and climate action and resiliency plan.
Speaker 2: Good evening.
Speaker 0: Good evening, Madam Mayor.
Speaker 2: Vice Mayor, members of the Council. I'm Aaron Smith, Deputy Public Works Director. And I last stood before you in July, where we held a preliminary public hearing to consider Almeida's Climate Action and resiliency plan and associated environmental documents. At that hearing, we discussed how Alameda has arrived on our climate safe path and that that climate safe path simultaneously addresses greenhouse gas reduction and adapting and building resilience to a changing climate. We heard from the general public and key stakeholder community action for Sustainable out of Alameda. We heard praise and affirmation on the plan. We also heard from regional agencies, including Sierra Club, both at the national and local level. Bccdc see stop waste. I know there's others. San Francisco Estuary Institute, just to name a few, each confirming the direction and innovation that Alameda has in the plan, both on the greenhouse gas side and on the building resiliency side. In July. We also heard from each of you and have incorporated change into the final plan that's in your packet this evening. Among other revisions, the final plan does now more clearly address the 36 inch sea level rise scenario and the timing around that. For the annual report, we specify that there will be a rolling log or a summary cumulative total of expenditures for the carp implementation. We also expand our traffic signal synchronization efforts towards those applicable intersections in our neighboring city in Oakland. We mention not only that we are going to be electrifying our fleet, but also right sizing our fleet and other a key item. And we give direction to review the general plan and zoning code to ensure consistency of the objectives in the Climate Action and Resiliency Plan. I'm only highlighting a few of the changes in the agenda packet this evening. There's a complete list of changes. Please note those are changes from the July version to the version. This evening. There was an earlier public comment version that was back in May. That document had had revisions already incorporated before coming forth at the preliminary hearing. So staff believes this document is more than ready for adoption. And as such, the resolution before you this evening is to adopt both the environmental documents as well as the Climate Action and Resiliency Plan. And with that, I'm available for questions.
Speaker 0: Thank you. And do we have speakers, especially speakers? So before we hear public speakers, does anyone, any of the councilmembers have clarifying questions for Miss Smith? So let's go to our public. Speaker. Thank you, Ms.. Smith.
Speaker 1: The speakers are Alan Teague, Laura Ezell and William Smith.
Speaker 6: Good evening. I'm Alan Teague, an Alameda resident. Climate action needs to start now. As described in the Climate Action Plan, the majority of our greenhouse gas emissions is from transportation reducing commute vehicle miles. Travel is high on our list. Reducing cross Alameda traffic would make a significant dent in the amount. It would also improve the quality of life for everyone in Alameda as it would reduce congestion. It would also allow for the absorption of more housing. We can eliminate hundreds of cross Alameda trips every weekday by encouraging carpools to and from our ferry terminals. This should be implemented quickly and for a very low cost look at what BART has done or six one. One has a plan. This is a no brainer and really should have been included in the Climate Action Plan as a short term. Let's get it done. Fix the issue today. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Our next speaker.
Speaker 1: Lauren Eisele.
Speaker 2: Good evening, Mayor and Council Members Lauren Eisele, Alameda resident and member of CASA. I'm just here once again to support this climate action plan. It's gone through a great deal of iterations over the past year and has had an amazing amount of community input. And I want to commend staff and council and all the community members of for their input into the plan. I think it's very comprehensive, very excellent, fundable and implementable, and I highly recommend that you approve it tonight.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Thank you. And one more speaker. Mr. Smith? Yes.
Speaker 8: Good evening, Madam Mayor and members of the council. I'm speaking to you tonight on behalf of the Sierra Club. We want to thank you for putting together an excellent plan. The staff put together an excellent plan for the hearing and making it significantly better with some what appear to be minor but are actually very important revisions, which I want to highlight now. First, the staff added text to perform a consumption based inventory when this methodology and data is more refined and available to municipalities. So we've got something to really take an aim at consumption, which is the biggest one we consume off the island and bring less of it on to the island and produce greenhouse gas emissions elsewhere, which is a major area that we can do to reduce our our CO2 emissions. Also, as the other speaker, Alan Tick, alluded to, clarifying in many places in the text, the reduction in vehicle miles traveled is a goal, not telecommuting or co-location of work and living spaces. Those are means to the goal. So we need to keep our eye on the goal. So that's very important. So and then the other thing, which is which I appreciate and others that you admitted to costing strategies beyond 2050 because there are too many unknowns. So that that really helps clarify and keep the public from getting confused later. So thank you for the wonderful work on it. So now let's get to work implementing it.
Speaker 0: Thank you. And that's all the public speakers in the same. Okay. So council comments or motion? Dare not speak at once.
Speaker 3: Do we need to? Can I ask a quick? Of course. Do we need to adopt the mitigated and approved the mitigated net negative declaration before we approve the plan? Or can we do it all together? You can because you can. Because the resolution is set forth in front of you is actually sequence so that the council adopts the environmental document first and then approves the plan within that one resolution.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Mr. City Attorney.
Speaker 3: So so I'd like to I would like to make a motion to Ford to make that approval with one change to the document. Back in March, I believe we brought a climate emergency declaration to the council that was fully supported and at that time asked that it be kind of put at the beginning of this document to kind of really set the framework for what this document is. And that was a commitment we made to the community when they came and asked us to do that and a commitment we made at that meeting. So I'd like to approve the document with the wood, just with the one change that the council approved. A climate emergency declaration just be added as pages two and three as a preamble to the document. The head of the the table of contents.
Speaker 0: Is everyone agreeable to that and. Okay. Yeah. And Councilmember Brody.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'll second that. And just a thanks to you, Aaron, for all your hard work on this. Our staff Kazu, my one of my former colleagues, Mr. Madras, for pushing this forward earlier. So I point out one quick thing that I well, two things we're focusing on. One, we have a referral tonight to deal with, you know, immediately implementing some of this when it comes to, you know, bicycle priorities and then to in stop waste, we're talking a lot about reducing organics because we have SB 1383 and you alluded to that, I think, on page eight. But, you know, hopefully we can find ways to partner with for food waste with some of our local grocers and the food bank. And I'll be working on that too as well. Kind of kind of in addition to this. So I'm glad that we're finally getting this done or getting it done. Well, it's kind of late as far as the environment and the climate is concerned, but it's early as far as, you know, when we were supposed to do it. So kudos to everyone all around.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Any more comments or so? We have a motion. We have a second. Right. Quick quick comment.
Speaker 4: About the ribbon is, as I said back in July, I appreciate the section on building resilience into our physical environment and infrastructure. I think that was quite detailed. And the one specific issue that I had though has to do with the congestion pricing, granted that that's possibly ten years away in the making. But I do think that that's that's a problem. So and I know that, you know, that it is meant to address especially the greenhouse gas issue and trying to get people to to switch modes of transit. But at the end of the day, I think congestion pricing, i.e., a tunnel through the tube will be quite burdensome, not just to residents, but also the businesses that depend on people coming in and out. And while it's while it's not set in stone, I think it's I think when you put it in in this plan, you're basically laying the groundwork for it. So, yeah. And even if it's ten years away, you know, at a snap of a finger, ten years is going to go by real fast. So. So I have concerns about that continuing.
Speaker 0: Okay. Any further comments? Okay, let's vote. We have a motion. A second. All in favor. I opposed abstained. And when oppose the motion carries for two one. Thank you so much for your good work, Ms.. Smith. All right. Now we are moving on to item six C.
Speaker 1: Adoption of Urgency, Ordinance and Introduction of non urgency ordinance amending the Municipal Code by adding Section 1-8.01 concerning hearing procedures, hearing officer's decisions and administrative regulations, repealing in their entirety Article 14, currently suspended in Article 15 of Chapter six concerning review of rent increases applicable to all rental units and rent stabilization applications to certain rental units, and limitation on evictions and the payment of relocation assistance applicable to all rental units. And repealing Ordinance 3246 and codified and adding a restated Article 15 to Chapter six concerning rent control, limitations on evictions and providing relocation payments to displaced tenants, including Section eight and adoption of a resolution in accordance with the City Values Rent Control Ordinance and a recommendation to approve the content of the rent registration statement.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Good evening.
Speaker 9: Good evening. And since everyone sounds like they have rocks in their mouths, I'm going to try really hard to speak into the microphone and be really clear.
Speaker 0: Are you. Are you referring to us?
Speaker 9: A little bit.
Speaker 0: We're all going to take speech classes.
Speaker 9: Or just to remember, I think you have to get really close to the mic so that folks.
Speaker 2: Can. Okay.
Speaker 0: We'll work it.
Speaker 9: Okay. With that lovely introduction, I'll start by saying that I'm Debbie Porter, the city's development director, and I'm here to give a staff presentation on the proposed amendments that are before the council this evening. So just to briefly recap, the city adopted a rent stabilization ordinance in 2016, and we have been working through a process over the last three years to to strengthen renter protections and to update the ordinance. And there was a ballot measure in November of 2018 that if it had been successful, it would have precluded the council from making any amendments to the ordinance by enshrining in the city charter and subjecting it to a vote of the people.
Public Hearing to Consider Adoption of Resolution Adopting a Mitigated Negative Declaration, Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program and Climate Action and Resiliency Plan (CARP).  (Public Works 310)