Most people complaining about how adding less than 200 housing units is somehow going to make us all die in a fire are completely disingenuous. Just say you don’t want poor people in Piedmont. We all know you’re thinking it.
And by the way, the “IS THIS SAFE?” Yard signs are overly busy and poorly designed.
I have been disinterested in what has been happening with the Housing Element until I watched the Moraga Canyon Specific Plan on video. Takeaways: * 60 affordable units will most likely be property tax exempt! * Only the 70 market rate units will be billed for property taxes * The City Budget will remain neutral…
Good article on today’s WSJ (10/23/2024) on how payments to contractors consulting on the housing element are helping Portola Valley go broke. Can anyone tell how much Piedmont has spent on the housing element including contractors . Publicity and staff time? Was it much more than necessary to meet the A BAG criteria ?
Residents questioning the safety of the Moraga Canyon Specific Plan by posting “Is it Safe” signs around town were accused of using public safety as a “boogeyman” to conceal their dislike of “poor people” coming to Piedmont. That’s a cheap shot given how poorly the question of how the project could impact emergency evacuation is…
Having worked for 50 years in the East Bay as an architect and planner I am sure that very few of you understand very much at all of the technical analysis in the Specific Plan; I know that I still do not. To get a more intuitive, even visceral understanding of what is being proposed…
The Oakland A’s play their last game at the Coliseum this week. The prelude to that happened 25 years ago when Oakland City Manager Robert Bobb and Mayor Jerry Brown feuded over downtown development. Bobb wanted to redevelop the area between 880 and the Fox Theater for a downtown baseball stadium while Brown wanted 10,000…
I am opposed to the sheer scale of 197 units being installed in our steep-sided high fire zone Moraga Canyon. Moraga is a 2 lane road and always will be no matter how you doctor up the diagrams. It is a very heavily travelled roadway (11,000+ cars daily) which begins and ends in Oakland and…
