Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Nicholas J. Calderon, Parks Director
Subject: First Amendment to the Ground Lease with CuriOdyssey for use of real property located at 1651 Coyote Point Drive in the Coyote Point Recreation Area
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing the President of the Board of Supervisors to execute the First Amendment to the Ground Lease with CuriOdyssey for use of real property located at 1651 Coyote Point Drive in the Coyote Point Recreation Area.
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BACKGROUND:
CuriOdyssey is a not-for-profit science and wildlife center that has operated on County-owned land within the Coyote Point Recreation Area ("Coyote Point") since 1953. Using educational programs, interactive exhibits, and a wildlife center CuriOdyssey helps children develop the tools necessary to understand the changing world. Annually, approximately 200,000 people visit its campus.
Seeking to expand its services to members, visitors, and program participants, in 2012 CuriOdyssey approached the County about constructing significant upgrades to its campus. As part of its campus overhaul proposal, CuriOdyssey desired to construct eight new buildings/exhibits that would support new science exhibits, exhibit workshops, learning labs, a field station for observations, animal habitat, administration space, and concessions.
Because CuriOdyssey operated on County-owned land pursuant to a lease agreement that was set to expire in 2024, and given the capital investment required to construct the proposed campus improvements, in 2021, CuriOdyssey requested a new long-term lease agreement. Recognizing the important service CuriOdyssey provides to the community, on March 22, 2022, the Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution No. 078775 which: (1) authorized a new Ground Lease with CuriOdyssey for the continued use of its existing campus to operate a science and wildlife center; (2) author...
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