Included in the 26 acres is the Petersen Ranch Farmhouse, “one of the few surviving farmhouses from the 1800s that is associated with the commercial fruit industry,” according to city and developer reports.Ĭity Ventures would be required by the state to create a park in the area near the farmhouse, and make efforts to preserve the house and other pieces of the property, but it’s not clear whether the old building will survive the redevelopment.Īlso on the land is Ramirez Farms, run by 78-year-old Ramón Ramirez, whose business rents farmland for his produce stand, which he stocks with corn, as well as tomatoes, peppers, onions and other vegetables. “We see City Ventures as an integral part of the development of Quarry Lakes Parkway,” Marilou Ayupan, Union City’s public works director, said at the meeting.
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Union City plans to work very closely with City Ventures to plot out how to build the parkway and the housing development in part at the same time, he said. Others maintain that adding a wider road through this area would ultimately lead to more traffic, as it could be used as a cut-through route from Niles Canyon to the Dumbarton Bridge.Ĭity Ventures staff have been involved in meetings where the civil engineer for the parkway project was being interviewed, Evanoff said. Some residents have said the project is unnecessary and too expensive for Union City.
However, the project has faced criticism for years, since Union City took over management of it from the Alameda County Transportation Commission. The proposed road has planning roots going back several decades when local officials planned to build a four-lane highway there.Ĭity officials say the roadway would ease congestion on Decoto Road and improve traffic circulation to thousands of new and planned homes in the city’s “Station District” near BART’s Union City Station. The land is part of a 36-acre surplus area Caltrans transferred to Union City earlier this year, so the city could continue its plans of building a four-lane connector road through the area, most recently called Quarry Lakes Parkway. We have the developer and were happy that City Ventures is taking on the project,” Councilmember Pat Gacoscos said at the council’s Dec. “I’m just really happy that we are progressing well. He said some other developers called and expressed interest in the land after the city put out a notice of availability in June, but no others submitted formal proposals.Ĭouncil members said they were impressed with City Ventures, because it plans to finance the whole deal itself, without relying on other partners.
“It’s a great opportunity, but it’s also going to be an expensive development,” Evanoff said. The City Council voted to exclusively negotiate with City Ventures for a two-year period, during which the details of how the land should be developed will be hashed out at public meetings and in reviews by city staff, and environmental impact reports will be prepared, according to Mark Evanoff, the deputy city manager.
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