Stop, Drop and Roll

11 June 2007 | Alameda Community, Alameda Community Development Forum | John Knox White

Tonight’s Planning Board agenda mistakenly lists the Safeway Gas project as having 18 pumps. Apparently staff just cut-and-pasted the last reports agenda item. The revised plans, with only 12 pumps, can be found here.

But the interesting thing is in the letter from the applicant to the planning board (and apparently sent to the planning board directly by Safeway). The second sentence reads:

The staff is recommending a continuance of the item and we, the applicants, feel the continuance is not necessary as the project was previously considered at you April 23, 2007 hearing and was on the verge of approval at that time.

Now that take chutzpah! The agenda (item 8-c) clearly says “(Continued to the meeting of June 25, 2007.) ” and yet Safeway says, “let’s ignore that.”

It looks like Safeway was late in submitting their plans to the Planning Department, but doesn’t want their timeline interupted. This is yet more proof of city staff doing the bidding of the developers.

Ooops, except that it seems to indicate the opposite.

{Yet another snarky aside: Alameda Daily News is a hot bed of anti-Safeway/Towne Centre reactionaries and yet has not announced this yet. (too busy inflating the hospital debt to $10 million I guess), will they be willing to post an announcement based on a “Scoop?” from Stop, Drop and Roll?)