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.
Mindfulness in the face of challenge.
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...
One of the key reasons Stop, Drop & Roll got started is to facilitate a discussion on development in Alameda. Development is going to happen, all that’s left is to figure out what kind and what it’s going to look like. My hope for this discussion is to limit ourselves to the large re-development...
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...
Much has been written in certain circles about the price of land sold by the city at Harbor Bay Business Park in 2003. At issue is 1.19 acres of land sold for $45,000 to Harbor Bay Storage as part of an overall 6.2 acre, $1,055,000 sale. The issue is being used to paint certain...