Archive for August, 2008
Your weekend: Summer’s end
So this is it, the last official weekend of summer. Just a few more days until school starts. (Don’t think I can’t hear you cheering out there.) So what would be your idea of the perfect way to relax here at home, if you’re not trying to jam in one last out-of-town trip? How about [...]
Measure H settlement talks possible
Folks, we’ve got an update on the latest lawsuit over the Measure H school parcel tax. Looks like both parties are hoping they can sit down and resolve issues over the four-year tax before heading into court.
“This can be a friendly situation,” said John Beery, the local landowner/developer/yacht broker who filed a suit against the [...]
SECOND MEASURE H SUIT FILED
A major Alameda property owner has filed a second lawsuit to try to halt the implementation of the Measure H parcel tax. Mariner Square owner/developer/yacht guy John Beery filed his suit against the temporary school parcel tax on Monday in Alameda County Superior Court.
Beery and two of his organizations, Alameda Gateway Ltd. and Mariner Square [...]
Changing of the Guard
Did anyone else catch the rather sizeable ad in the Journal last week regarding potential changes in Coast Guard operations? I guess the Guard is looking to “modernize” its command structure in an effort to keep up with what they say is an ever-growing and shifting workload.
Under the proposal, the Pacific Area Command based in [...]
From the quibble desk …
This morning, we posted an item on efforts to update the city’s transportation plan and on an environmental assessment of the plan. A few hours later we heard from fellowblogger and Transportation Commission chair John Knox White, who says we missed the boat on a whole mess of things in the environmental report. Knox White, [...]
What’s DEIR to us
City leaders are considering some major changes to Alameda’s transportation plan – changes that could have huge impacts on how you get around, on and off the Island.
In a nutshell, the plan has been rewritten largely to address the increased traffic that proposed developments on and around Alameda Point will generate. City leaders hope to [...]
Exempt
In the midst of all this Measure H lawsuit craziness, we’ve finally gotten our hands on exemption figures for the measure. Some 2,288 senior homeowners applied and qualified for an exemption from the four-year, $120 a year tax for schools, said Luz Cazares, recently departed chief financial officer for Alameda Unified. That’s a few more [...]
HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PLAINTIFF
As promised, the Folks Who Hate Measure H have filed their lawsuit, way out at the Gale/Schenone Hall of Justice in Pleasanton. And now we’ve got the identity of the plaintiff, which has been a great source of speculation over the past week. Who here in town would risk drawing the scorn of the 66.9 [...]
Your weekend: Maintaining the greenbacks
Rates are going up at Chuck Corica Golf Complex, as part of an effort to keep the municipal courses solvent. We had planned to do a big, long, funny explanation of all the rate changes (we swear this was going to be funny) but it’s just too goshdarned complicated, what with the Jack Clark and [...]
MEASURE H SUIT APPEARS CERTAIN
It’s looking just about certain that local small businesses will be suing the school district over the Measure H parcel tax, because they feel the tax burden falls too heavily on them. The Sun’s Marc Albert has an extensive interview with the attorney they’ve hired, David Brillant, who says the suit will be filed Monday.
Fellowblogger [...]
Gateway drag
As fellowblogger Lauren Do mentioned the other day, the North of Lincoln strategic plan – aka the “What the hell are we going to do with Auto Row?” plan – is now online, and the first public hearing on the plan will be held at the Economic Development Commission’s meeting tonight, which is at 7:30 [...]
