ACTION ALAMEDA News

The density bonus law is up for discussion before the City of Alameda Planning Board and the public, as part of the effort to pull together a state-mandated 2007 - 2014 Housing Element for the city. Long-time readers know that Action Alameda has advocated an examination of the density bonus law as a potential means [...]

Residents who are opposed to a proposed project to put a 36 until rental apartment complex at the former Alameda Island High School site have started an online petition.
The petition notes that:
“As it stands, the plan calls for ALL of the low and very low income housing units to be removed from the developer’s Grand Marina site, [at [...]

At last night’s Planning Board meeting, board members expressed surprise that residents were speaking in opposition to a proposed 36-unit rental apartment complex at the former Alameda Island High School site at the corner of Eagle and Everett. Evidently, City Staff did not inform the planning board of a presentation by AE3 Partners at the [...]

Dear Editor,
I oppose the Community Improvement Commission and the Alameda School District’s support of the Catellus Development Group’s proposal to put
36 units at the old Island High site.
To put 15 units priced between $400 to $700 a month and 21 between $1000 to $1250 a month with no units of market value, denies the people [...]

Dear Editor,
My neighbors and I recently received a letter from an architectural firm inviting us to review the preliminary plans for the old Island High school site on Eagle and Everett. In attending the meeting the plan presented was to construct a 36-unit apartment complex for very low and low income residents. What also came [...]

At the June 23rd Planning Board meeting, Warmington Homes project manager David Day was so certain that the fix was in to support his proposal to push all the low and very-low income homes out of his Grand Marina Village project and into an “off-site” location at the former Alameda Island High School site, that [...]

Dear Editor,
Anyone who has been duped by Helen Sause and her developer friends and the local politicians and city planners who are actively trying to turn Alameda over to the developers by supporting the repeal of Measure A for Alameda Point (and ultimately for all of the Island) ought to read the excellent article in [...]

A proposal by Catellus to transfer low and very-low income affordable housing units out of the Grand Marina project and into a new project on the site of the former Alameda Island High School would exclude teachers in the Alameda Unified School District who earn the average salary for the district.

At the Monday July 28 Planning Board meeting, the Board will hold a housing workshop which is intended to gather public input about, among other things, the use of the density bonus law in Alameda. Action Alameda has long advocated that use of the density bonus law be examined as a way of providing affordable [...]

Addendum - the average salary for a school teacher in Alameda was $61,018 for the 2006-’07 school year. A school teacher living alone would be ineligible to occupy a unit in this project.
Roughly 30 people filed into the meeting room at Alameda Library on Wednesday night to hear AE3 Partners, an architecture firm based in Oakland, [...]