Catching up on the Central Estuary Specifc Plan
I always wish more activists, policy wonks, and planning geeks would start blogs about Oakland. There’s just so many fascinating things going on with the City...
Chris Kidd: Sim City is fun, Sim Oakland is *funner*
Let’s take a trip in the Way-Back-Machine, guys.
Tom Thurston: Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Monday night saw the first community meeting for the Area Specific Plan for the Central Embarcadero area. The area stretches from Coast Guard Island to the Martin...
Now about that Coliseum…
So I said in Friday’s post that if we were to build a new stadium for the A’s in Oakland, the best place to do it would be near the Coliseum. Of course,...
Oakland’s eternal indecision
Yesterday, I complained about the City’s complete inability to make a decision about anything and just stick with it. I’m not feeling any more positive...
New rules for recycling facilities
Last Summer, as part of the ongoing (yet slow-moving) Citywide zoning update process (an effort to get our zoning into compliance with our General Plan before the...
Bringing industry back to Oakland
So something I’ve really wanted to write about for a while and never got around to is to actual barriers to industrial business attraction in Oakland. I hope...
Reinventing the wheel. Slowly.
I write today for Novometro about the Oakland Partnership. I hope to find the time to write more about last Friday’s Economic Summit soon, although I am,...
The sad story of subarea 8
People will tell you that the new industrial land use policy is about providing certainty and predictability to developers, business owners, and property owners....
Industrial Land Use: So what just happened?
Better late than never, right? Okay, so last week I talked about what the Council has been doing with respect to industrial land retention for the past few years....
Industrial Land Use Policy: How did we get here?
The LUTE, as I explained last week, divides Oakland’s land into 14 different categories, two of which are reserved for industrial uses. Of course, zoning for...
CED holds onto industrial zoning, for now
Update on yesterday’s post. CED did not pass the proposed zoning onto Council. After the meeting got started late due to the previous committee running way...

