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Background

The California Higher of the Arts (CCA) at 5212 Broadway in Oakland will exist unifying its programs and operations at its newly expanded San Francisco campus by academic year 2022-23.  In anticipation of this motility, the CCA Board selected the squad of Emerald Fund and Disinterestedness Community Builders (the "evolution squad") in 2017 to envision a programme for the Oakland campus that provides a mix of open space and housing, and takes advantage of the site'southward prime number location and close proximity to a variety of transit options, including the Rockridge BART station.

In belatedly 2018, afterward most two years of dialogue with stakeholders, the development team proposed a 589-unit projection comprised of 554 units of on-site housing (including a nineteen-story residential belfry), 35 units of affordable artist housing in a repurposed dormitory building across Clifton Street, artist space, preservation of the ii nationally registered celebrated buildings and a i.v acre public park.

New Redevelopment Alternatives

In response to feedback from the community, the development team has revised the development program by eliminating the tower, reducing the number of homes (by 127 overall, i.east. 21%), expanding the size of the public park by over 20% to 1.85 acres and increasing the number of preserved trees. This revised programme is detailed beneath and referred to as "Culling 1."

In response to a request from the Planning Department, the team has also studied options for preserving additional historic buildings, which would result in reducing the number of new homes. (These site plans are described below and referred to as "Alternatives ii-5.")

A thorough fiscal analysis was undertaken on all five new Alternatives, including the pricing of detailed architectural plans, the assembling of hire and operating expense data, and the application of debt and disinterestedness underwriting parameters. In April and May 2020, the evolution team shared the comprehensive analyses of the Alternatives with the community and City through a series of virtual meetings ("Community Presentation").

The analyses found that none of the five Alternatives are financially viable today. Still, the development squad is hopeful that Alternatives one, 2 or 3 might somewhen become financially feasible if certain central drivers (structure costs, in detail) shift materially in the future. Alternatives 4 and 5 are so far from financial feasibility that the evolution team does not believe they merit pursuing.

Alternative one Overview

Delight scroll through the images below for an overview of the original 2018 evolution proposal and the newly created Alternative 1. For a full analysis of Alternatives 1-5, delight review the Customs Presentation and the accompanying documents on the Project Documents page.

We appreciate the customs's interest and expect frontwards to continuing to work with the many stakeholders who have participated in discussions over the by 3 years to develop a project that creates a sizeable new public park, preserves significant historic structures and provides much needed housing near transit. For more information or to provide feedback, please Contact United states of america.

The original evolution program included a 19-story tower and Edifice D at the corner of Broadway Avenue and Coronado Artery.

Alternative 1 eliminates the tower, eliminates Building D, and reduces the height of Building C by two floors.

Alternative 1 (Updated Concept) eliminates the tower, eliminates Building D, reduces the height of Building C past 2 floors, increases the size of the public park by over 20% to 1.85 acres, maintains more mature trees, preserves a larger portion of the wall forth Broadway, and includes 10% on-site affordable housing.

Comparison of Clifton Street elevations – all Alternatives eliminate the tower, increment the width of the promenade and step the building heights down to Broadway.

Comparison of Broadway elevations – all Alternatives expand the public park to the corner of Broadway and Coronado Avenue and step the edifice summit and massing dorsum from Broadway.

Alternative 1 introduces active uses on the ground level throughout the project including townhouses fronting the public park and Clifton Street, retail and commercial space along Broadway, and residential entries and assiduities spaces lining the promenade. Active uses will make for a vibrant pedestrian feel in the public park and forth the promenade.

The Alternatives preserve 50% more mature trees, many in the southwest quadrant of the park.

The new, lower profile of the residential buildings presented in Alternatives one-v will be much less visible from adjacent streets, as illustrated in the diagrams above.

Comparison of Alternatives 1-iii.

For a total analysis of Alternatives 1-5, please review the Community Presentation and the accompanying documents on the Project Documents page.

Adjacent Steps

On May fifteen, 2020, the development team, based on Culling 1, submitted an amended Project Description, amended set up of plans and amended Project Objectives to the Planning Department. This submission allows the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) process to exist restarted. The Planning Department is in the procedure of revising its CEQA and Entitlement Schedule. This document will become public when it is completed and it will be available on this website. The development team is hopeful that the Typhoon Environmental Impact Report (EIR) volition be made public by spring 2022. At that time, the Landmarks Preservation Board and the Planning Committee will concord public hearings to solicit comments on the Draft EIR. Several months later, hopefully past tardily 2022, the EIR will be published and the EIR and overall project will exist considered in public hearings by the Landmark Preservation Board, Planning Commission and City Quango.

In the intervening months, the development team anticipates presenting to the Design Review Commission of the Planning Committee for feedback. We anticipate at to the lowest degree three trips to the Blueprint Review Committee, including 1-2 sessions dedicated to Design Guidelines, which would command all future development of the site. Nosotros are hopeful that the Design Review Committee tin can begin to consider the Draft Blueprint Guidelines in early on 2022. All appearance dates before the Design Review Committee will exist published on this website in advance.

Project Schedule

In 2017, Emerald Fund and ECB met with a broad assortment of stakeholders and community organizations in an attempt to formulate goals for the legacy holding. The resulting vision included creating new housing, opening the site up to the public, promoting the arts, retaining historic buildings and minimizing traffic impacts. In subsequent months, the design team honed and refined the project plans to help bring virtually the proposed vision.

During fall 2018, Emerald Fund, ECB and the design team shared the proposed vision with numerous community stakeholder groups in advance of submitting an entitlement application to the Metropolis of Oakland and get-go the environmental review process later that year. In leap 2020, at the request of the Planning Section, Emerald Fund and ECB conducted a thorough analysis of five development scenarios, including multiple preservation options. The results of those studies take been fabricated available on this website since leap 2020. At the conclusion of the process, in May 2020, Emerald Fund and ECB revised the Project Clarification to align with Selection i, no tower, 447 homes, ten% on site affordable at 110% AMI, preservation of Macky Hall, Carriage Firm, and landscape elements. This programme is being assessed in the Environmental Bear upon Report.

It is anticipated that Planning will issue the Typhoon EIR in spring 2022, followed by public hearings to solicit comments on the CEQA document. Final public hearings on the projection would follow 6-12 months later, with construction starting in 2024 and kickoff occupancy occurring in 2027.

Jump – Summer 2017: CCA Community Outreach

  • CCA stakeholder outreach and appointment – administration, faculty and alumni

Autumn 2017: Oakland Community Outreach

  • Community stakeholder outreach and interviews

  • Presentations at community grouping meetings

  • Start at-large customs meeting

Spring – Summer 2018: Prepare Proposed Vision

  • Projection squad prepares proposed vision for site based on community feedback

Fall 2018: Share Vision and Submit Entitlement Pre-Application

  • Presentations at customs grouping meetings

  • Second at-large customs coming together – present proposed vision

  • Submit entitlement pre-application for project

Wintertime 2018 – 2023: Formal City Review Procedure

  • CEQA process commence, Nov. 2018

  • CEQA Observe of Training (NOP) issued, June 2019

  • NOP public hearings before Landmarks Preservation Board and Planning Commission, Sept./Oct. 2019

  • Projection Description amended, May 2020

  • Draft EIR issuance and public hearings, projected spring 2022

  • Concluding Project Hearings before Urban center Quango, Planning Commission, Landmarks Preservation Board, projected late 2022/early 2023

Community Outreach

The project team is committed to community input in the planning procedure. The City'due south CEQA and Planning review process is expected to terminal about three years, with structure anticipated to begin in late 2022. Cheque hither for projection updates and the latest pattern documents.

March 2021 City of Oakland Design Review Committee Hearing

On Wednesday, March 24, the project team participated in a virtual introductory session with the City of Oakland'southward Design Review Committee where they introduced the site, project goals, the setting of the proposed buildings and park, and discussed approaches to create a set of blueprint guidelines for the CCA site. Click here to view the staff report associated with the meeting or click here to visit the Metropolis Pattern Review Committee website.


Nov 2020 Upper Broadway Advocates Meeting

On November v, 2020, the project squad met with Upper Broadway Advocates (UBA) to get their input on the potential building design. Delight click here to view a recording of this coming together.

City of Oakland 2020 Hearings

The project team participated in a Metropolis of Oakland Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board Hearing on August ten, 2020 and a City of Oakland Planning Commission Hearing on September 2, 2020. Both hearings were advisory sessions where the new project alternatives were discussed along with, among other things, what alternatives should be studied under the EIR. Video recordings of these meetings are available at the Urban center'due south website. Please click hither and search for the respective meeting.


Rockridge News Interview

In the July 2020 result of the Rockridge News, Marc Babsin of Emerald Fund was interviewed past Stu Flashman, Rockridge Community Planning Council Land Use Committee Chair, on the project and planning process. Click hither to read the interview.

2020 Virtual Customs Meetings

The project team held 2 virtual customs meetings in summertime 2020 where they presented their five redevelopment alternatives for the California College of the Arts Campus that were prepared in response to feedback from the City of Oakland and the community. The same information was discussed at each coming together and copies of the chat logs from those meetings can be found below.

  • Community Meeting No. one - Wednesday, June 24, vi-vii:xxx p.yard. - Click here to view the meeting conversation log

  • Community Meeting No. 2 - Wednesday, July one, vii-8:30 p.one thousand. - Click here to view the coming together chat log


Notice of Preparation (NOP)

The Metropolis of Oakland'southward Planning and Edifice Department, Bureau of Planning, is preparing an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on the California College of the Arts (CCA) and Clifton Hall Redevelopment Projection (the Projection) and requested comments on the scope and content of the EIR. The EIR will address the potential physical and environmental effects that the Project may have on each of the environmental topics outlined in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The public was invited to comment on the Notice of Preparation from June 21, 2019 until August 23, 2019. There were also two public hearings on the NOP:

- Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board, Monday, September 23, 6pm, Oakland City Quango Chambers

- City Planning Commission, Wed, October 16, 6pm, Oakland City Quango Chambers


Public Meeting Materials

May 2020 Community Presentation

January 17, 2019 RCPC Presentation

November 27, 2018 Presentation

October 19, 2017 RCPC Presentation

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Recent Media

The post-obit includes a listing of recent media coverage on the CCA project:

  • San Francisco Business concern Times, California College of the Arts Proposes Big Redevelopment of Oakland Campus - March 2021

CCA Campus Planning

For more than information on CCA's piece of work at its San Francisco campus, please visit http://cca.edu/new-campus.