21-0512 2) An Ordinance: (1) Authorizing The City Administrator To Execute A Lease And Disposition And Development Agreement Between The City Of Oakland (City) And California Waste Solutions, Inc. (CWS) For Development Of A Recycling Facility At 2308 Wake Avenue, With A Term Of Up To Seven Years, A Conveyance Price Of $8,268,500 And Applicable Extension Fees Of $125,000, $250,000, And $425,000;
(2) Authorizing The City Administrator To Execute A 99-Year Lease Between The City And CWS Of The City's Leasehold Interest In An Easement Granted By Caltrans Over Adjacent Property;
(3) Waiving The City's Local And Small Local Business Enterprises Program, As Amended On February 16, 2021 (Ordinance No. 13640 C.M.S.) And May 4, 2021 (Ordinance No. 13647 C.M.S.); And
(4) Applying The Construction Jobs Policy And Operation Jobs Policy Applied To The Other Projects At The Former Oakland Army Base; And (5) Adopting Requisite California Environmental Quality Act Findings
D3 has gone through 2 council members trying to make this happen.
However, CWS has not demonstrated the best behavior in our neighborhood since opening in the 1990’s. Please incorporate a COA with enforceable and meaningful conditions including remediation start within a reasonable time after actual move of current locations on Pine Street and Wood Street.
The occurrence of fires at their Pine Street location is often. Not only would it be embarrassing if this occurred at the new site, it would affect the health and safety of those travelling the Bay Bridge East & West bound traffic. Other concerns include operating beyond the approved hours & capacity, and the planned truck routes to freeways, not using frontage to access freeways.
A fire Saturday (June 12, 2021) afternoon at a recycling center in West Oakland injured one firefighter…
Story-- https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/06/12/fire-west-oakland-industrial-yard/
Picture--https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15116056/2021/06/aerial2_oaklandrecycling.jpg
I support CWS moving to the Army Base.
D3 has gone through 2 council members trying to make this happen.
However, CWS has not demonstrated the best behavior in our neighborhood since opening in the 1990’s. Please incorporate a COA with enforceable and meaningful conditions including remediation start within a reasonable time after actual move of current locations on Pine Street and Wood Street.
The occurrence of fires at their Pine Street location is often. Not only would it be embarrassing if this occurred at the new site, it would affect the health and safety of those travelling the Bay Bridge East & West bound traffic. Other concerns include operating beyond the approved hours & capacity, and the planned truck routes to freeways, not using frontage to access freeways.
A fire Saturday (June 12, 2021) afternoon at a recycling center in West Oakland injured one firefighter…
Story-- https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/06/12/fire-west-oakland-industrial-yard/
Picture--https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15116056/2021/06/aerial2_oaklandrecycling.jpg