Planning Board
Plans
Planning junkies, rejoice: This week brings a slew of meetings about potential developments all over the Island.
First up are a pair of open houses designed to gather your input on plans for Webster Street and Alameda’s Civic Center. The Webster Street meet is scheduled for Tuesday, July 13 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at [...]
Boatworks, Alameda Point on planning agenda
Two kind of important things on the Planning Board’s agenda tonight: progress on the Boatworks development plan and developments on Alameda Point.
This week’s meeting brings the continuation of efforts to hammer out the potential environmental impacts of the proposed Point development, for a report that could take two years to complete – if indeed, it [...]
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. [...]
Hearing on SunCal’s new Alameda Point plan tonight
Folks, you’ve got an opportunity at tonight’s Planning Board meeting to sound off on SunCal’s new plans for Alameda Point and on issues you think ought to be addressed in an environmental impact study to be conducted on those plans.
The public meeting is at 7 p.m. today (Monday) in council chambers at City Hall, 2263 [...]
Planning priorities pondered
The Planning Board will get a presentation on planning staff work priorities for the coming year at their meeting tonight. Planning staff say they are looking for feedback from the board on the priorities in light of last year’s staff and other cuts.
“Given these reductions, there is an on-going need to evaluate projects and demands [...]
Lump on Kohl’s
While I was watching for the whole pot club ordinance business (continued until January by the way) at Monday night’s Planning Board meeting, I instead got sucked into the whole business of extending truck delivery hours for a few businesses at Alameda Towne Centre (Safeway, Walgreens, Panera, Big 5). Essentially these businesses were arguing [...]
Planning Board to consider pot club ban
The Planning Board is set tonight to discuss a proposed ban on medical marijuana dispensaries.
City staff is recommending a permanent ban because they say the dispensaries flout federal law and also, potentially, state law, which they said doesn’t have explicit rules governing them. They also listed concerns about side effects the clubs could pose, saying [...]
Pot shot
Remember that pot club which located itself on the west side of Alameda? Which resulted in the City Council placing an emergency moratorium on the City preventing the openings of any future medical marijuana dispensaries. The last time we heard about the pot club ordinance in December of last year staff was saying that they [...]
All night long
The Planning Board will be considering expanding the time that trucks can make deliveries to Alameda Towne Centre. Trader Joes, Big 5, Petco, Safeway, Walgreens, and Panera all want to be able to have trucks drop off deliveries to their store beginning as early at 6:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. In comparison, currently they [...]
Design challenges
Monday night the Planning Board had really only two items on their agenda. But as with anything in Alameda, it took a long time to make a decision on the issue and for the first project, it’s not really there yet either.
So the first one involves a parcel of land that is directly across [...]
