What land swap?

I wrote about the Emerald Views condo meeting yesterday for Novometro. Today, there’s a story in the Chronicle about the project.

It contains the usual nonsensical babblings from anti-growth zealots who have somehow failed to notice that Lake Merrit is actually already surrounded by tall buildings. As for this “historic garden” nonsense, I addressed that issue last year in a post on Future Oakland, as did dto510.

And of course the story mentions (without any exploration of feasibility) this idiotic notion these people keep bringing up about trading the property for something near Broadway: Read more

Oh, how sweet. Nancy Nadel is going to make chocolate and change the world.

This just in from the Trib: Sometimes your rent goes up

No, the main thing is getting us more police officers

Please, people! Learn to use language properly. Otherwise, you’re just lying.

Ron Dellums and the failed Port Commission appointment

Just the thing to advertise your hopelessly bourgeois pseudo-environmentalism with