A quick Friday post before heading into a weekend of baseball, housecleaning and community meetings! Wahoo! I checked out the city council meeting agenda for next Tuesday and was struck by the fact that the only item not on the consent calendar is the discussion about whether or not the planning board can discuss...
Alameda civic discourse is once again in the crosshairs. Like a circular dream, the issue of measure A and its effect on development in this city is raised, lawn signs and apocalyptic sloganeering ensue, timid civic leaders choose the path of least resistance and quietly ignore the issue all together and the city continues...
Wow! That’s all I can say about last night’s ARRA vote to select SunCal as the sole-Master Developer for the base. Quite honestly, this is exactly what I had thought was going to happen back in early April and I was completely caught off-guard by the attempted forced marriage of Catellus-Lennar. While born of...
At last night’s council meeting, the council majority (all five) wisely voted to hold off on approving the proposed Commercial Development Agreement (DA) for Alameda Landing. The entire council requested that city staff work with Catellus/Prologis to put into place a mechanism that allows for increasing funds for the projects Transportation Demand Management...
On Tuesday night (actually Wednesday morning) the silent slate of Alameda’s city council voted unanimously (5-0), as they often do, to approve the Alameda Landing project on the West End.
Alameda Landing goes before the City Council tonight. The packet for the meeting is over 500 pages long and I could probably write 20 pages on some of my niggling concerns with the project. In the interest of shorter posts, I stick to a couple of large concerns I have with the Alameda Landing...
Over the last few months, prior to the election, a small but vocal group has run through the streets yelling about a “council majority” is trying to turn Alameda into Walnut Creek by the Bay through overzealous development and a grand desire to overturn Alameda’s Measure A. At last Tuesday’s (11/21/06) joint City Council/Community...
