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2 Agenda
• Project Objectives
• Challenges & Constraints
• Project History
• Project Alternatives
• Schedule
• Recommended Actions
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Challenges &
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5 Project Objectives
• To provide a bridge that is structurally sound and seismically resistant, with a 75-year design life
• To ensure adequate and safe access to the pier for all users • To preserve visual resources
• To ensure the economic viability of existing businesses • Construct the Project prior to the 2028 Summer Olympics ITEM 11.A.
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6 Challenges and Constraints
• Federal Highway Money – Caltrans Approvals
• Project scope
• NEPA
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7 Challenges and Constraints
• Surrounded by
historic and cultural
resources, as well as
scenic corridors
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Alternatives
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9 Project History
• 1990s – City began working on a project to replaced the Pier Bridge in the 1990’s, but federal funding was derailed
• 2006 – City resumed work on the project as rehabilitation project, but Caltrans rejected the rehabilitation approach
• 2010 – City started work on a replacement project
• 2012 – Caltrans & FHWA approved federal funding for the project • 2017 – City circulated draft EIR with 3 alternatives
• Locally Preferred Alterative was deemed infeasible
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10 Project History - Recent
• City Developed 10 New Alternatives, Notice of Preparation solicited 8 alternatives
• 2019 – City authorized a modification to the consultant team to start working on a recirculated draft EIR/EA
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• Why we reduced 8 alternatives to 2 build alternatives • Viable approach
• “alternatives that introduce elevators towers (Alternatives 3 through 8) adjacent to Looff’s Hippodrome would result in an adverse effect under Section 106, based on the visual intrusion and atmospheric impacts they would have on the historic setting of the National Historic Landmark” • Evident that elevators would jeopardize both the Project schedule and federal funding (CEQA impacts of elevators = not possible to mitigate).
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Alternative 3
Less impact to view and further from Hippodrome
Alternative 4
Adverse impact to view and closer to Hippodrome
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13 Project Alternatives
• Project Alternatives:
• Alternative #1
• Alternative #2
(Preferred Alternative)
• No-Build
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Alternative #1
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Alternative #2 – Preferred Alternative
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Alternative #2 – Preferred Alternative
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Schedule and Staff
Recommendation
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21 Project Schedule
• September 2022 – Circulate Draft EIR/EA
• June 2023- Certify Final EIR/EA and File Notice of Determination • June 2023 – Begin “Final” Bridge Design
• 2025 – Advertise Project
• 2025 – Award Project
• 2025 – Begin Construction
• 2027 – Complete Construction
• 2028 – Summer Olympics
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22 Staff Recomendation
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. Adopt a Resolution (Attachment A) certifying the Recirculated Final Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Assessment (EIR/EA) and adopting the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program for the Pier Bridge Replacement Project (Attachment B).
2. Approve the preferred alternative bridge design (Alternative 2) described in the Recirculated Final EIR/EA and authorize staff to proceed with the final design and development of bidding documents for construction of the Pier Bridge Replacement Project as recommended in the Recirculated Final EIR/EA and as described in this report.
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