Action Alameda News
February 1, 2008
Action Alameda announced today that they have re-launched their website organized along topics of interest to Alameda residents.
Action Alameda today announced that they have re-launched their website with a new structure, now organizing content around themes of interest to Alameda residents, such as Alameda Point, Measure A and Redevelopment.
Additionally, the web site now includes an RSS feed from the Alameda section of the news site of Topix.net.
David Howard, Chair of Action Alameda said "It's great to see my fellow residents so active in contributing links to Topix. Being able to include this feed on our website is a great benefit to our audience and will help build traffic."
Alameda residents can read the latest Topix additions through the Action Alameda website news and information page. Residents will also find the new web site easier to navigate to directly find their local topic of interest.
The website is available at www.ActionAlameda.org
January 28, 2008
Action Alameda today announced that they now include on their news web page an RSS feed from the Alameda news site of Topix.net.
David Howard, Chair of Action Alameda said "It's great to see my fellow residents so active in contributing links to Topix. Being able to include this feed on our website is a great benefit to our audience and will help build traffic."
Alameda residents can read the latest Topix additions through the Action Alameda website news and information page.
More Local News
| 07/23/2008 10:32 PM |
| Residents Opposed to 36 Unit Apartment Complex |
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Roughly 30 people filed into the meeting room at Alameda Library on Wednesday night to hear AE3 Partners, an architecture firm based in Oakland, present their vision for a 36 unit affordable housing apartment complex that Warmington Homes (Catellus) wants to put on the site of the former Alameda Island High School, at the corner [...]
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| 07/23/2008 08:39 AM |
| Public Meeting on Low Income Housing at Island High Site |
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AE3 Partners is holding a public meeting to present ideas for a project to provide 30 to 40 new housing units, including low-income housing, at the site of the fromer Alameda Island High School at Eagle and Everett, just steps away from Park Street. The project was the subject of a staff report to the Planning [...]
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| 07/22/2008 06:17 AM |
| FBI Looking Into Ron Cowan Parkway |
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In another story in the San Francisco Chronicle, the FBI is looking into State Senator Don Perata’s role in the hiring of a lobbyist who pressured the FAA to grant approval for Ron Cowan Parkway - a road the East Bay Express labeled the “Road to Nowhere” - connecting Oakland Airport to Ron Cowan’s Harbor [...]
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| 07/21/2008 11:52 AM |
| San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Finally Exits The Fillmore |
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See this story in the San Francisco Chronicle about the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and The Fillmore district. Some folks in Alameda are touting redevelopment as our salvation for Alameda Point, but what hath redevelopment wrought in San Francisco?
The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency will leave the Western Addition in January, ending a 40-year “urban renewal” [...]
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| 07/19/2008 03:20 PM |
| Theatre Protest Draws Supporters from New York City |
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The film projectionists union, IATSE Local 169 picketed the Alameda Theatre again today, this time drawing supporters from as far away as New York City. The union is asking theatre operator Alameda Entertainment Associates, run by Kyle Conner, to begin negotiations on a contract that would bring union members into the projection rooms. The City of [...]
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| 07/17/2008 07:00 PM |
| Alameda Scores High on Walkability |
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High density advocates pushing to relax the restrictions of Measure A like to talk about how necessary it is to have high density to make communities "walkable." Yet, Alameda already scores very high on Walk Score’s walkability index - a 92 out of 100.
Even the mailing address for HOMES - freely published on their [...]
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| 07/16/2008 11:36 AM |
| Property Transfer Tax Ballot Measure |
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Alameda City Council has approved a measure for the November ballot that would increase real property transfer tax. That would add to the cost of buying a home in Alameda.
City Council is motivated by the current budget shortfalls which are the result of the economic downturn. But Council seems to have lost sight of a [...]
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| 07/13/2008 10:48 AM |
| Gray Water Systems Gain Acceptance |
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The Oakland Tribune is reporting that gray water recycling is gaining greater acceptance, spurred on by the current water use restrictions here in the East Bay.
Long-time readers will remember that Action Alameda highlighted the need for less regulation of grey water recycling, as part of our position paper, Greening Alameda Point, last fall.
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| 07/11/2008 06:43 PM |
| SunCal Alameda Point Meeting on the Hornet |
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SunCal hosts its third Alameda Point Community Update, where you and your neighbors will have the opportunity to interact with their team of planners, including community designer Peter Calthorpe.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
6:30 p.m.USS Hornet
707 W. Hornet Avenue
Alameda, CA 94501
For more information, please call SunCal at (510) 251-0711
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| 07/10/2008 06:02 AM |
| State Eyes Redevelopment Money |
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According to a report in the Sacramento Bee by Dan Walters, there is legislation afoot in Sacramento that would take property tax money away from local redevelopment agencies to pay back bonds the state issues to balance this year’s budget.
It sounds good, tapping the redevelopment honey pots that exist in redevelopment cities all across California, [...]
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