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Board advances billboard ordinance and clears several land-use items, including $500,000 open-space grant
Summary
In a single session the Alameda County Board approved a $500,000 open-space grant to Tri-Valley Conservancy, a Castro Valley general-plan amendment for a three-lot subdivision, a Fairview rezoning for a small mixed-use project, and advanced a billboard-relocation ordinance on first reading.
At its Dec. 4 planning meeting the Alameda County Board of Supervisors approved several land-use and zoning items and advanced an ordinance intended to support a county billboard-relocation program.
On consent the board approved a $500,000 grant from the Altamont Landfill and Resource Recovery Open Space Advisory Committee Fund to the Tri-Valley Conservancy to construct a bridge connecting open-space areas in East County. Planning staff said full project details are in the board packet; the motion passed on consent (moved by President Chan, seconded by Supervisor Miley; recorded vote: 3 ayes, 2 excused).
The board approved a general-plan amendment in the Castro Valley area to reclassify a parcel to allow subdivision into three single-family lots. Staff said the change had been approved by the Castro Valley MAC and the planning commission and recommended board approval; the motion passed without objection (Supervisor Vallejo absent).
A rezoning and planned-development permit for a small Fairview mixed-use project — converting a triangular former gas-station site into a bike shop and a roughly 600-square-foot residential unit — was approved after the project architect, Roger Wilson, described neighborhood collaboration on design. The board approved the item (vote recorded as 4 in favor).
On a separate item, planning staff introduced an ordinance to amend zoning provisions that currently tie an old scenic-route map to sign-location restrictions, a linkage staff said has prevented billboard-relocation applications from proceeding. The amendment would unlink the map language so the county’s billboard relocation program can move forward while retaining separate scenic-corridor protections (Dublin Canyon). A board member asked whether East County would be affected; a planning staff respondent said the ordinance would not allow billboards in East County. Supervisor Miley moved first reading and the board advanced the ordinance 5-0.
There were no public commenters on the general public-comment period and the meeting adjourned.
