NOTICE OF WALKING TOURS OF MARTINEZ AND BENICIA DOWNTOWN/MARINA
Subject: City Council tour of Downtown/Marina areas
When: Saturday, August 12, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada).
Where: 700 Main St, Martinez, CA 94553 - 109 East B Street Benicia, CA 94510
Timeframe:
1. Martinez (9:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M.) Martinez Starbucks - 700 Main Street, Martinez, CA 94553 (two blocks from Recorders Office)
2. Lunch Break (11:00 A.M to 12:30 P.M.) Break for folks to grab lunch.
3. Travel to Benicia (12:30 P.M. to 1:00 P.M.)
4. Benicia (1:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M.) meet at “1st Street Green” parking lot (corner of 1st Street and East B Street)
Activity: Walking Tours of Martinez Downtown and Benicia Downtown/Marina.
Objective: Identify concepts to enhance Old Town Pittsburg and create better connectivity to the Marina.
Background: The Economic Development and Waterfront Subcommittee directed staff to perform an assessment of the Pedestrian Commercial (CP) zone to ascertain what uses could be permitted to fill vacant ground-floor commercial spaces without the need to apply for a conditional use permit in the Downtown District. As a separate exercise, Staff has also been exploring concepts and ideas aimed at enhancing the Pittsburg Marina with linkages to a revitalized Old Town Pittsburg and the proposed Bay Walk project.
The Economic Development and Waterfront Subcommittee directed staff to perform an assessment of the Pedestrian Commercial (CP) zone to ascertain what uses could be permitted to fill vacant ground-floor commercial spaces without the need to apply for a conditional use permit in the Downtown District. As a separate exercise, Staff has also been exploring concepts and ideas aimed at enhancing the Pittsburg Marina with linkages to a revitalized Old Town Pittsburg and the proposed Bay Walk project.
The intent of the tour is to enable staff, councilmembers and interested parties to visit comparable cities in Contra Costa County to assess concepts that have been successful for those cities and how similar concepts can be used to enhance the Downtown/Marina.
RSVP: The public is invited to participate in this tour. Anyone who wishes to participate in the tour must RSVP to Maurice Brenyah-Addow, Senior Planner, via mail at 65 Civic Avenue, Pittsburg, CA, by telephone at (925) 252-4261, through e-mail at mbrenyah-addow@pittsburgca.gov, or by fax at (925) 252-4814 by Friday, August 4, 2023 and arrive by their own means of transportation at the meeting locations at the set times listed above.
