Alameda resident Gregg de Haan wrote to City of Alameda officials expressing concern about life-safety and liablity issues at the Alameda Civic Center Parking Garage. See the City Manager’s responses in-line in bold:
Dear Mayor and City Manager,
I wanted to first applaud you on the completion of the parking structure and partial completion of the Cineplex [...]
A photo survey by readers and submitted to Action Alameda News Blog shows that the Civic Center Parking Garage is much higher than the Twin Towers United Church, whereas during the planning for the garage, the City advertised that it would be no higher than the top of the towers of the church.
The posterboards for [...]
According to this report Alameda Power & Telecom’s telecom division is worth about $18 million, or roughly 24 to 25% of the accumulated $80 million of debt.
The report states that the municipal operator in Lowell, Michigan, sold their cable system to Comcast in 2007 for $3.5 million, or roughly $1,887 per subscriber. That would value [...]
In a March 27 op-ed piece in the Alameda Sun, Brooke Briggance, Executive Director of the Alameda Education Foundation tried to “clarify” the message of AEF’s current campaign called “Public education is too valuable to throw away.” and which provides blue and yellow lawn signs to Alameda residents.
Ms. Briggance is trying to clarify that the [...]
At the March 26 City of Alameda Transportation Commission, the Commission discussed, but took no action on, a proposed design for the Bay Farm Island Bike Bridge closure project.
The stated purpose of the project is to improve the connection between the bike lane on Fernside Boulevard near Lincoln Middle School to the path approaching the [...]
A program that aired on National Public Radio recently talked about the proliferation of book-oriented social networking sites on the Internet. Borders has announced it is up for sale, and recently Borders ran back into the arms of Amazon.com to let Amazon run Borders’ online book sales operations. And the Borders store at South Shore [...]
At Monday’s planning board meeting, the board quickly dispensed with an informational filing from the architect for Shinsei Gardens Apartments at 401 William Stargell Avenue. The architect filed elevations indicating design changes at the main entry where a large roofed colonnade was replaced with sculpted wood-wall slats with curved geometry to match the rest of [...]
Will that be one lump or two? One lump means cutting our losses now on AP&Ts telecom division, and selling it off for whatever we can get for it. Two lumps means dragging the process out forever, and searching for excuses to keep the telecom division on life support, delaying the inevitable. Were already two [...]
Almost a month on from the poorly-attended Measure A forum in February and roughly two years into the latest campaign to undo Measure A, the low-density housing restriction in Alameda, it might be a good time to summarize and re-cap some of what we’ve learned. To wit:
House Prices
Measure A critics like to blame Measure [...]
About 100 people rallied yesterday at Longfellow Education Center to organize and initiate a campaign across Alameda to raise money for the Alameda Education Foundation. Organizers handed out t-shirts and walking maps to attendees who then went door-to-door handing out cards and asking residents to place an AEF sign on their lawn. Blue and yellow [...]
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