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existing and future residential development within the Kennedy
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The Estuary Plan calls for
a system of open spaces that provides the opportunity for
recreational use, fosters environmental enhancement and interpretive
experiences, and establishes significant gathering places. A necklace
of individual open spaces and parts will be developed comprising
more than 55 acres of land, connected by a continuous landscaped
parkway with promenades, bikeways, and shoreline trails. New parks
will be built at the mouth of the Lake Merritt Channel and Ninth
Avenue Terminal, as well as at Union Point and within the Jack London
District.
The Estuary Plan proposes
a variety of uses that will strengthen Oakland's position
as an urban center and accommodate growth and development that complements
the downtown and adjacent neighborhoods. The plan proposes the preservation
of industrial area, which are necessary to support Oakland's port,
as well as its role in food processing, manufacturing, and distribution.
The plan reinforces the Jack London District as a mixture of retail,
dining, entertainment, and visitor-serving uses oriented to significant
gathering places and public access area along the water. In addition,
the emerging trend toward loft-type residential and off-price retail
establishments in the Jack London District is encouraged to continued.
The plan creates opportunities
for new uses and proposes the large-scale transformation
of the area from the Lake Merritt Channel to the Ninth Avenue terminal
into a mix of artisan work/live lofts and hotel, cultural, and commercial
recreational uses that will complement the planned open spaces and
parks along the water. Within a mixed-use context, the plan strengthens
the livability of existing and future residential development within
the Kennedy Tract, and creates opportunities for small-scale office,
business, and commercial establishments. In certain areas (e.g.,
around the Con-Agra facility in the San Antonio/Fruitvale District),
the plan supports the retention of existing industries, but acknowledges
that they may relocate for a variety of reasons, and therefore establishes
land use priorities for an appropriate transition to new urban development
in the future.
The Estuary Plan also proposes
significant improvement to the transportation system, to
improve both regional an local access. The proposed circulation
system is aimed at clarifying on and off ramps an improving local
vehicular access to inland areas. The plan calls for the creation
of a continuous landscaped recreational parkway, accommodating pedestrians
and bicycles as well as transit and vehicular access along the entire
five-and-a-half-mile length of waterfront, from 66th Avenue to the
Jack London District. This parkway will knit together the diverse
parts of the Estuary shoreline, contributing to the identity of
Oakland as a waterfront city and to a sense of orientation within
the district.
The Estuary Plan emphasizes
the connection between waterfront uses and inland areas.
It calls for development in the Jack London District to create a
stronger connection to the city center by extending waterfront activities
along Lower Broadway toward the downtown. Development of area between
Estuary Park and the Ninth Avenue Terminal will create a significant
gathering place for the city as a whole as well as significant uses
that will link to a larger open space systems along Fifth Avenue
and the Lake Merritt Channel to Lake Merritt and inland neighborhoods.
The improvement and development of Embarcadero Cove is planned to
create additional windows to the Estuary. The development of a new
park at Union Point and improvements to the shoreline will create
a new focus along the water for San Antonio, Fruitvale, and other
inland neighborhoods Extension of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional
Shoreline westward to High Street will also provide open space opportunities
for the Central East Oakland neighborhood.
Finally, the Estuary Plan
establishes a specific program and strategies for implementation
of the planning objectives. It includes regulatory, institutional,
and financing policies that will guide conversation and development
of the Estuary area over the next 20 years.
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Estuary Policy Plan
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