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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents necessary for a lease with Century Villages at Cabrillo, Inc., a California nonprofit corporation, for the use of excess Terminal Island Freeway right-of-way. (District 7)
DISCUSSION
Century Villages at Cabrillo, Inc., (CVC), developed, manages and operates a 26-acre supportive housing community in the City of Long Beach known as Villages at Cabrillo (Villages), a home to more than 1,000 Long Beach residents. Established to break the cycle of homelessness, CVC creates the physical and social conditions where individuals and families can succeed in overcoming homelessness through service-enriched affordable housing. Providing the tools necessary to change behaviors and overcome obstacles, CVC seeks to empower residents to build upon their dreams and to reintegrate into mainstream society.
At any given point in time, CVC and its network of service providers support approximately 414 children, who either live at the Villages or participate in any number of child-serving programs. These programs include affordable child care, a computer center for youth, after school homework assistance and tutoring, and education programs provided by Long Beach Unified School District’s Bethune Transitional Center for homeless children and youth. Several hundred children reside at the Villages in emergency shelter facilities or transitional and permanent housing. The Villages is also home to a KaBOOM!-funded playground that universally serves all the children and is located next to the Terminal Island Freeway (Freeway), a major route for cargo trucks traveling to and from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
The City is owner of an irregularly shaped 1.054 acre parcel of excess right-of-way (Site) along the eastern edge of the Freeway (see Attachment). Access to the Site from the Freeway is impeded by an existing open channel drainage culvert (Culvert). The Site is situated between the Culvert ...
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