Rethinking Parking this week in Oakland
So, as I mentioned yesterday, the most interesting item on the City Council Committee agendas was the Community and Economic Development Committee’s discussion...
One more chance to help keep downtown Oakland from becoming even more blighted
This Wednesday, the Oakland Planning Commission will consider, hopefully for the final time, a proposal to create something called a Temporary Conditional Use Permit...
TCUPs return to Planning Commission
This Wednesday, January 19th, the Oakland Planning Commission will consider a proposal (PDF) to allow for the creation of “temporary” conditional use...
Say no to more surface parking lots downtown!
This coming Wednesday, October 20th, the Oakland Planning Commission is scheduled to consider (PDF), among other things, a proposal that would allow the City to...
More parking! Coming soon to a Lake near you!
On Tuesday, the City Council’s Public Works Committee approved a proposal to allow three-hour parking on Lakeshore Avenue between MacArthur Boulevard and the...
Oakland: “Transit-first” only on paper
But not the kind of paper they use to print bus passes. Do you guys remember a couple months ago when the City Council was talking about how they could bring in...
Council gets it backwards on new parking meters, should go learn from Shoup tonight
Do you guys remember all that noise about parking meters this summer and fall? Of course you do. How could you possibly forget. Aside from the fact we have a lot...
Free parking for City employees. Why?
This afternoon, the Oakland City Council’s Finance and Management Committee discussed, among other things, the issue of parking privileges for city employees...
Doing it right the second time around: parking returns to Council
It was a great pleasure watching the City Council’s Public Works Committee’s discussion of parking issues last Tuesday. As most of you probably remember,...
OMG, shocker! Oakland does something good for DTO nightlife!
I feel kind of sad admitting this, but over the past few years, I have gotten extremely jaded about the City’s ability to do, like, anything right, ever. So...
One more time. Parking meter changes were not adopted without notice or discussion.
I’m sure everyone has been itching for me to talk about parking, and I’ve been meaning to since last week’s Council meeting, but I’ve been...
What is free parking worth to you?
You are all, of course, aware by now that in a few hours, the Oakland City Council will consider a proposal from District 2 Councilmember Pat Kernighan to rescind...



