Richard Bangert: Been there, do that
The city council will soon be making a pivotal decision affecting the future of Alameda Point. If SunCal submits another plan and avoids default, the city will have to extend its current Exclusive Negotiating Agreement with SunCal beyond the July termination date in order to implement SunCal’s new plan. If SunCal decides to [...]
Locals, city start America’s Cup campaign
City officials and members of Alameda’s sailing and business communities are banding together in an effort to help bring the America’s Cup sailing race to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2013, a move they hope will lift the Island’s profile – and generate cash for city and commercial coffers.
Development Services Director Leslie Little has [...]
Measure B: We asked, you answered
In the wake of Measure B’s February 2 defeat at the polls and widespread speculation about the reasons for its defeat, we here at The Island decided to ask people what they didn’t like about SunCal’s Alameda Point redevelopment initiative. A hundred and eighteen of you answered our (totally non-scientific) poll, and here’s what you [...]
Why did you vote no?
Okay, I admit it. I’ve been following the continuing debate over the Meaning of the Measure B Vote with a whole heaping boatload morbid curiosity. Did people love the land plan but hate the business deal attached to it, as some have maintained? Or are people not all that jazzed about 4,800 (or more) homes [...]
SunCal withdraws extension request
SunCal has withdrawn its request that the city extend the term of the exclusive negotiating agreement it holds to ink an Alameda Point development deal by two years. The City Council, sitting as the Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority, had been set to make a decision on that request tonight. City staff recommended the council [...]
Council may want less dense Point
Some City Council members interviewed in the wake of Measure B’s loss at the polls on February 2 are saying they want a development at Alameda Point that has far fewer homes that developer SunCal was asking voters to approve.
“I don’t think a non-Measure A (compliant) plan works out there,” Mayor Beverly Johnson told The [...]
UPDATED On Point: A recap
Updated 1:53 p.m. Monday, February 8
Last Tuesday, Measure B took a decisive drubbing at the polls – putting the decisions about what to do with Alameda Point and whether to move forward with SunCal back into the hands of city leaders. SunCal still has an exclusive agreement with the city to negotiate a development deal [...]
Under the Dome
Thanks to reader Richard Bangert for sending along this photo of Rock Wall Wine Company’s tasting and event space in progress. Two years in the making, the 33-foot-high geodesic dome (or GeoDome) is just about open for business. The GeoDome will hold a tasting room for the nine wineries at Rock Wall and crowds of [...]
City to SunCal: New Point plan must be Measure A compliant
Updated 11:31 a.m. Sunday, February 7
City officials have notified SunCal that the developer is in default of its exclusive agreement to negotiate a development deal at Alameda Point because the plan they submitted doesn’t comply with Measure A.
The developer has 30 days from Friday to fix the problem. If they don’t, the city can terminate [...]
MEASURE B SUFFERS MASSIVE DEFEAT
With all precincts counted, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters is reporting that Measure B has suffered a landslide loss. The Alameda Point development initiative lost 11,947 votes to 2,120 votes, or 84.93 percent to 15.07 percent, according to unofficial final results.
“This is an astonishingly wonderful result. For it to be so clear for the [...]
ABSENTEES: OVERWHELMING NO ON B
Now that the polls have closed, Alameda County’s Registrar of Voters has posted unofficial, early results on the Measure B contest. Of the 9,776 vote by mail ballots cast, 82.52 percent, or 8,067 are saying no to the Alameda Point development initiative, and 17.48 percent, or 1,706 are saying yes.
More to come.
