Residents of the 2500 block of Eagle Avenue held a block party yesterday to cement the unity of the “Wedgewood” neighborhood of Alameda.
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The following letter-to-the-editor appeared in today’s online edition of the Alameda Journal, but not in the print edition: Is Democracy dead? Continue reading Letter on Planning Board On Wednesday night at Alameda City Hall, the Alameda Point Task force reviewed SunCal and Calthorpe’s latest plans for the redevelopment of Alameda Point. At least, the three task force members that showed up. Continue reading Alameda Point Task Force Reviews SunCal’s Plans Peter Calthorpe! Defending his high-density – 80 units per acre, 6260 units, 14000 to 15000 people – plan for Alameda Point Mr. Calthorpe said “It’s not like we’re going to have developers come into Alameda and start tearing down houses to turn this into San Francisco or something.” Has Mr. Calthorpe understood anything about [...] We received comments from a cyclist over this article about formal training for bicyclists – most of it critical. As we reported last week, SunCal’s Calthorpe-designed proposal for 6,000 housing units at Alameda Point would establish San Francisco-style densities for Alameda, or density roughly twice as dense as the rest of the City of Alameda. Continue reading Coming Soon To Alameda Point – $300K No-Bedroom Miniminiums It will be unfortunate for our schools and our children if the lawsuit against AUSD over Measure H succeeds, but the District reaps what they sow. The politically well-connected Alameda Unified School District board members and proponents of Measure H have had years upon years to fight in Sacramento to fix the funding inequities [...] High-density planned developments like SunCal’s Calthorpe-designed proposal for 6000 homes at Alameda Point, are intended to create automobile congestion in the hopes that such congestion will force everyone to take public transit, thereby removing the automobile as a transportation option. Continue reading Auto Congestion is the Intent An excerpt of a circular received byAction Alameda which appears to have originated with the California Redevelopment Association: Governor Proposes $675 million Take of Redevelopment Funds Today Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed taking the greater of 5% or $225 million of redevelopment funds annually for three years as part of another budget proposal that he [...] A Community Meeting will he held on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. in Council Chambers, City Hall – 2263 Santa Clara Ave., to propose Land Use and Transportation Plans for Alameda Point. |
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