Egads! It’s market based planning!
The Planning Board will hold a workshop today to discuss form-based zoning codes. An idea who’s time has come!
Friday Morning Funnies
With Prop 8 on the ballot, and polls showing it might pass, it’s time to reach out to your friends and family and ask them to vote it down.
Schwarzenegger does it to us again…
The Governor vetoes yet another bill that would have made the East Bay’s quality of life (and quality of air) better.
Alameda Point moves forward
Alameda’s City Council agrees to a new agreement with SunCal and their new partner DE Shaw moving the project one more step forward.
Just when you thought the budget was safe
After a record setting delay in approving the State budget, lawmakers are already finding themselves billions of dollars in deficit, which might be heading towards AUSD and City coffers.
Saturday morning talk of bikes and bridges.
My favorite comment at the Estuary Crossing Study session: “why don’t we just fill in the Estuary and connect the island to Oakland like they did Bay Farm Island.”
Veepstakes in Alameda!
Watching last night’s debate, were you as flabbergasted as I was by Sarah Palin’s comment “And I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I’m going to talk straight to the American people…”. I had planned on writing about a similar subject, but that just jumped out at me.
Recent discussions on Lauren Do’s blog (tip to blogger Roberts, it’s “Doe” on “Doo”) have led to outlandish claims calling SunCal “crooks” and accusing them of “Land Grabs,” accusations that yours truly is breaking the Brown Act (open government laws) by having a blog that I sometimes express an opinion on, and the claims and accusations go on and on.
Come to a party!
And on Sunday (10/5), you’re invited to come to a party in support of Marie Gilmore’s re-election campaign co-hosted by your truly. (for privacy reasons, I’m not printing the address here, just email me for the info if you want to come).
Good Gone!
Apparently, Good Chevrolet’s Financing Company demanded that they pay down their inventory on Monday and the Owner John Buono said “enough’s enough” and shut the doors.
