At tonight’s Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority (ARRA) meeting, the council, excuse me, ARRA Board, will decide whether to spend $200,000 to remove The Faithful, a 293 foot vessel and a barge that has recently been moored to it at the FISC property.
What’s crazy about this, is that they know how owns the boat [...]
It’s a big week for transportation related items at the Council, CIC, and Housing Authority. Things get pretty wonky, pretty quickly, and so I’ll skip the Economic Development Strategic Plan (at the CIC for Approval Tuesday), the awarding of a contract to begin the West End Estuary Crossing Feasibility Study (for bikes and peds) at [...]
Last Thursday, I mentioned a report card issued by Action Alameda on redevelopment in Alameda.
Report cards are great organizing tools, done well, they can crystallize a set of complex information into a short, easy to read format. Done well.
Tonight, the Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority (ARRA) will hear a presentation by the Veterans Administration (VA) for their plan to build a 53 acre Columbrium/Masauleum, 250,000 sf Hospital, 240,000 Administration building, and 80,000 sf clinic at Alameda Point.
The proposal is to use some of the land currently proposed as a National Wildlife Refuge and [...]
Just when you thought is was safe to go back into the council chambers….
Tonight, at a joint meeting of the City Council, Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority (ARRA) and Community Improvement Commission (CIC), which of course are three separate public bodies made up of the same people, two Alameda Theater items are on the agenda, [...]
Tomorrow night, the council will receive (and likely accept) the 2nd quarter sales tax Collection report. I’ve been meaning/trying to put together a quarter by quarter sales tax spreadsheet for the last few years, but other things keep cropping up and I haven’t even really started.
The key issue in the six page staff report are [...]
Tonight, the city council will be discussing what to do about the Carnegie Library building.
There are two proposals being brought forward.
Proposal 1) Staff’s proposal to use the building as a one-stop permit center, moving the permit department in the basement of city hall (former jail) and permit departments from City Hall West at Alameda Point [...]
The planning of Towne Centre returns tonight to Mastick Senior Center. (Would that be the Bride of planning of Towne Centre or Son of planning of Towne Centre). There’s a special meeting of the Planning Board (special because it’s on Tuesday, as yesterday was a holiday).
The meat of the meeting will be a workshop to [...]
After last night’s city council/Housing Authority meeting, I think that the housing Authority is going to remove parking at Independence Plaza.
But I’m getting ahead of myself, so let’s rewind to the beginning of the meeting.
Parking tops tonight’s council and housing authority meetings.
First, the Housing Authority (HABOC) is finalizing a deal to take 10,000sq. ft of parkland and convert it to parking for Independence Plaza. Yep, it’s the old green space to oil slicks trade. But hey, there won’t be housing on it, so nobody will mind!
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