Final Passage of Ordinance Amending Alameda Municipal Code to Add Section 30-18 Universal Residential Design. (Community Development 209)
To add section 30, dash 18 universal residential. Design. And we have two speakers on this. All right. So I'll go ahead and call the speakers for this one. Okay. Mr. Berlinger. And then Ms.. Kenny, those are our two speakers. And you each get up to 3 minutes and you don't feel like you. Have to use all. Yeah. Mumble. But just because we give you 3 minutes doesn't mean you have to use it all. I just want to thank you all for putting together an excellent staff that has worked hard on this proposal, the Universal Design Ordinance for the past five years. Andrew Thomas and the Community Development Department have put in a lot of great work, as well as the Planning Board and my fellow commissioners on the Commission for Disability. I do want to recognize three commissioners or two former commissioners and one present commissioner Kelly Harp, Susan Deutsch and Audre Lorde. Housman wrote this original draft of this ordinance five years ago and have kept after us all to get this thing done. And without those three women, I don't believe we'd be here today. So I want to thank them. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Berlinger, did you want to add something to this? And just so everyone knows, this is the final passage of the ordinance amending our meaning municipal code to add Section 30 Dash 18 Universal Residential Design. I just I just want to say that this is something that is not for just the present. This is something or. Or for posterity, for our grandchildren, for their children and their grandchildren. Also, because when we talk about universal design or it's not only for people who have disabilities, it's also for people in their normal walks of life. And I just want to leave you with one thing, is that I. I do not despair about. Disability. And I can't even worry about abilities. What keeps me going is the possibility, the possibilities that are here in an Alameda. Or. In this case room for everyone being able to live in the housing that we're building. Thank you. Thank you. We have a motion so moved. All those in favor of my motion carries unanimously. That is the adoption of the final passage of the addition of the universal residential design to our code OC Regular Agenda Item six A Public. Hearing to consider adoption of resolution amending.