Before the holidays, I risked carpal tunnel with an overly long post about the Action Alameda “Greening Alameda Point” proposal. Despite the length, I didn’t even get into two of the most incredible issues in the proposal: the acceptance of the issues surrounding transportation, something that many of us in Alameda have been talking about [...]
So yesterday, I talked a little about the Greening Alameda Point proposal from Action Alameda; I kept things more on the style and messaging. Today I wanted to look at the specifics that are proposed within the document. For the sake of length, I am presenting summarized versions of the proposal on this page, but [...]
So I’ve always wanted to like Al Franken’s books better than I actually do. They have funny bits, but tend to be a bit of a flat read. That said, Lies and the Lying Liars that tell them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right was a pretty interesting read and had a [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I visited family out of town. Flying out of Oakland Airport early in the morning and sitting in an window seat, I watched as the greenbelt of the east bay passed by. In recent weeks, I’ve listened to some of the stalwarts from the church of “A” talk about the [...]
On Monday, the Planning Board unanimously adopted a meeting format for the Measure A forum, yes you read that appropriately, unanimously. (Patrick Lynch was absent).
The meeting was extraordinary as there were no speakers in opposition to the forum, the Measure A Ad Hoc Committee Appellant Members (MAAHCAM) did not even show up, much to the [...]
Traditionally, I shy away from getting involved in discussions on SD&R that are on-going on someone else’s. It seems a little cheesy to try and drive traffic to ones own site by posting links to another persons site.
But, (as Pee Wee Herman said “Everyone I know has a big but“), in this case, I can’t [...]
Settlement talks have begun on the Harbor Bay Village VI housing project. This is the proposed 104 households in the middle of a business park with no direct connection to any services…oh yeah, and it is right by the airport, and in side the demarcation line where the noise from the airport will be so [...]
Last Monday, September 10th, the Planning Board was to discuss the issue of a public forum to discuss measure A. That meeting was cancelled before it could begin because of scheduling conflicts of some of the members of the ad-hoc committee. As a part of the cancellation announcement, staff proposed a special meeting be held [...]
As mentioned yesterday, cities around the entire bay area are undergoing a Housing Element update. It’s a state mandated process.
Once again, I will rely on the Piedmont staff report, as I can’t sum the process up any more succinctly than they did. Succinct isn’t always one of my strong points!
The state has determined that 243,000 [...]
Nothing strikes fear in the heart of all right-thinking Alamedans than the words “housing element.” It almost seems as if there are teams of people (albeit very small teams) who sit around preparing for this once every seven year process.
Alameda’s current housing element is one of 6 out of 109 bay area cities that is [...]
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