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Site Description: Project History: All of these projects are located along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay.(see Exhibit 4). The geographic distribution by county of the projects recommended for approval is as follows: two projects in Marin (City of Novato and City of Sausalito); one in San Francisco at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard; one in San Mateo at Redwood Shores in Redwood City; one in Santa Clara County at Bixby Park in Palo Alto; one in Alameda on the estuary shoreline in the City of Alameda; one in Solano in the City of Benicia; and one in Contra Costa at Martinez Re- gional Shoreline in the City of Martinez. Of the six applications that were rejected, three were in Marin County, two in San Mateo County and one in Solano County. No applications were received from Napa or Sonoma counties. The San Francisco Bay Access Grant Round was authorized by the Conservancy on December 8, 1998 to disburse up to $500,000 by June of 1999. The grant round was designed to fo- cus attention on the San Francisco Bay Trail and the Conser- vancy's role as funder, since for-several years the Conservancy has had very little funding to use for Bay Access projects. The Bay Trail Project, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the Association of Bay Area Governments, had conducted grant rounds focused on Bay Trail construction in 1996 and 1997, but it did not receive the expected funding last year to enable it to continue that program. With nearly $6 million in Access Program funding this year, the Conservancy decided to allocate $500,000 for Bay Trail projects. PROJECT SUPPORT: Letters of support were submitted along with each project pro- posal (see Exhibit 5). CONSISTENCY WITH CONSERV ANCY'S ENABLING LEGISLATION: This project is consistent with the Conservancy's enabling leg- islation, Division 21 of the Public Resources Code. In Public Resources Code Section 31400 the Legislature charged the Conservancy with taking a principal role in implementing a system of coastal public accessways to and along the California coastline, including San Francisco Bay. In the projects pro- posed, the Conservancy will have a principal role in planning and funding construction of new elements of the Bay Trail, all sections of which are along the coastline of the San Francisco Bay. ill-9 ~+-zs EXHIBIT B -~T .