Measure A
How many lawyers does it take to develop Alameda Point?
Tomorrow night is the day of reckoning for SunCal. Well, it is and it isn’t. Tomorrow the City Council sitting as the ARRA/CIC will determine whether it will take staff’s recommendation to deny the Optional Entitlement Agreement that was submitted by SunCal for Alameda Point. That is pretty much the only — legal [...]
Finding Memo
Josh Harkinson from Mother Jones magazine is my new hero for the moment. If the name sounds vaguely familiar, he is the journalist for Mother Jones that wrote the article about environmentalists and density, but used Alameda Point as sort of the poster child for the disconnect between liberal environmental groups and their desire [...]
Magic 8 ball says: outlook not so good
Of the three City meetings I watch (City Council, Planning Board and School Board) I would have to say, hands down, the Planning Board is by far the most pleasurable experience. Yeah, it has its boring moments, yeah it has its what the… moments, but out of the three, it is the best. [...]
In fill ‘er up
At the last City Council meeting toward the end of the meeting when the City Council gets its requisite SunCal/Alameda Point updates, Mayor Beverly Johnson goes on this huge tear about not understanding why SunCal has yet to put out a “transportation plan” yet and how she doesn’t understand how a development can be “transit [...]
Alameda needs to walk a fine line on Boatworks project
Tonight at Planning Board, the Boatworks Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) will get its day in the sun. The plan, 242 housing units shoe horned on to an old industrial site with very little public open space and contrary to the General Plans goals for roadway design. (quick note to Planning Board, please, please, please [...]
I’d like to see what’s good
SunCal promised at the last City Council meeting they attended that they would being to upload previously confidential documents to their new website: See Alameda Point. Additionally, they have been posting brief updates to every single meeting they have been having with the City including who was there and what was on the agenda [...]
No reservations
In light of the Reservation Letter sent by SunCal to the City along with their submission to “cure” the alleged default I thought this comment by DLM deserved revisiting for a bit of a fact check and clarification. DLM wanted some attention brought to the very early morning discussion regarding the Tolling period requested [...]
The SunCal also rises
As reported by Michele Ellson yesterday, SunCal has submitted an application to the City of Alameda attempting to “cure” the “Notice of Default” that the City had sent in response to its Optional Entitlement Agreement (OEA).
The biggie, according to the City, is that SunCal needed to submit a Measure A compliant Master Plan in order to not [...]
SunCal and solar power
Unfortunately, given that Tuesday’s meeting was seven hours long.
Yes, seven. hours. long.
Something was wonky with the system of uploading it to the internet so the video feed was not online when I wrote this and by the time it went up I didn’t have a spare seven hours to listen to it.
Fortunately, Michele Ellson loaded [...]
Caps not allowed
I’m not sure if anyone has been following the news about Pleasanton’s housing cap being ruled illegal. On Friday Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch declared that a housing cap that was voter enacted in 1996 that capped off all new housing in Pleasanton was in violation of state housing laws.
Highlights from the San Francisco [...]
