Q&A this Saturday in San Leandro with Rep. Barbara Lee
Representative Barbara Lee will be visiting San Leandro this Saturday and speaking at 10:30 a.m. at on Bancroft near Dutton. Please come and participate in the Q&A with Rep. Lee. Under redistricting, starting in January 2013, she will be San Leandro's representative in Congress.
New Plan for Transit Oriented Development next to San Leandro BART Station
On April 9, 2012, at a City Council work session, City staff along with project developers unveiled an updated proposal for the mixed use San Leandro Crossings Development Masterplan. A key component is OSIsoft will develop a technology campus on the site west of the San Leandro BART Station. This builds upon and extends the commercial district next to the San Leandro BART station, bringing hundreds of new high-paying jobs to San Leandro.
In a recent report from the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, the authors make the case that there is a strong link between density and job growth. "In fact, we believe that locating jobs closer to transit — and closer to one another — will be key to the Bay Area’s long-term economic growth."
You can learn more about the Crossing development at http://www.sanleandro.org/depts/cd/projects/crossings.asp
San Leandro Forum on Children and Teens Coming Soon
On Saturday morning, April 21, the City will join with the San Leandro Unified School District, the San Lorenzo Unified School District, and the San Leandro Education Foundation to co-sponsor a "Forum on Children and Teens" at the Main San Leandro Library, 300 Estudillo Avenue, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Former California Superintendent of Public Instruction, Delaine Eastin, will be the keynote speaker.
Our schools, SLED and the City have been working to create a format where families, children and teens, educators and public officials can come together and discuss the issues facing the families and young people of our community. We are extremely honored that Superintendent Eastin will be our keynote speaker. She has a tremendous breadth of knowledge and experience regarding education in California.
With the theme of “Putting the Pieces Together to Build Strong Families,” topics at the forum will include youth wellness, teens and technology, parenting education, job training and mentoring resources, and more. Other speakers include myself; Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan; San Lorenzo Schools Director of Student Services, Dr. Ammar Saheli; Ms. Dale Gregory, MPH; and members of the San Leandro Police Department.
Everyone is welcome to attend this free event. Childcare will be provided, but space is limited and each child must be registered in advance. To register for childcare, please e-mail childrensforum@sanleandro.org or call 577-3351.
The LWVBA Position on Housing Policy Support a regional housing plan that provides for balanced and equitable housing throughout the region. Support federal and state legislation that facilitates the implementation of regional housing goals. Support a regional fair share housing plan as part of the broader comprehensive regional plan. Place special emphasis, consistent with compact growth principles, on local efforts to meet needs for very-low-to-moderate-income housing. State and regional guidelines for local policies that promote: a higher density housing b inclusionary zoning c mixed-use housing d housing near transit e incentives for development of affordable housing f incentives for rehabilitation of existing housing stock g clarity and consistency in the development process h emphasis on good design, maintenance and management of subsidized housing. i retention of subsidized housing as affordable housing 3 Requirement that major new commercial and industrial developments assist in providing housing for the jobs created by such developments. 4 Establishment of a regional trust fund for the funding of needed housing development throughout the region. http://www.lwvbayarea.org/files/social_policy_lwvba2004-06.pdf
(April 2012) Thought this article might be of interest to other housing advocates: http://www.bayareamonitor.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=297:bay-area-league-day-tackles-housing&catid=112:aprilmay-2012&Itemid=66
There is no new project value for the 200 unit complex. Previous housing projects like the ones in Oakland were built for $300k-ish per unit. Again, higher than single-family house prices.
I merely cut and paste this content from the wonderful world wide web, Fact Man.
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I look forward to you proposing some real plans to increase San Leandro's density. There is an entire area of San Leandro, you're familiar with, called the "Broadmoor." It is a suburban wasteland of typically less than 2000 sq ft houses on oversized quarter-acre lots, you should be astounded and deeply upset at such a waste of space in this sprawling section of a sprawling suburb. Here's a modest proposal, again, you should easily be able to support. Split all the quarter acre lots lining Broadmoor, Victoria, Beverly, etc etc. Put in roads/alleys behind and build a bunch of new houses along the new roads. New lot size ~3000-3500 sq ft for existing and new houses (the remainder going for the road & sidewalks. Unlike you, I actually lived in such a neighborhood in a small city you might be familiar with, "Chicago." Standard lot size is 3125 ft, alleys in back, etc, so you know it can be done. Instant doubling of density in the most disgustingly sprawling area of this eeevil sprawling suburb. Or do you actually prefer your quarter-acre lot, and would rather "increase density" by corralling poor people somewhere you can't see them (since you don't take BART on your daily trips to Oakland).
What a lot of people don't understand is the state requires a certain amount of new affordable housing, like Pleasanton has to build in this article
This project remains an unneeded waste.
A man was shot and killed in East Oakland on Wednesday while pushing a child in a toy car, authorities said. The shooting happened near the corner of 65th Avenue and Eastlawn Street in the Lockwood Gardens housing complex about 3:15 p.m., police said. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/18/BA4A1O5JH8.DTL#ixzz1sUzYQ3nd
Pleasanton: http://www.redfin.com/city/14986/CA/Pleasanton Median LIST price: $719,000, nearly double that of San Leandro. What people don't understand is that San Leandro is both affordable and is next door to even more affordable areas. Pleasanton is neither. Nor is Walnut Creek, San Francisco, San Mateo, or other examples thrown around here.
Here is the law: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=65001-66000&file=65580-65589.8 The problem with Pleasanton is that they had passed an anti-expansion ordinance - by limiting how much housing could be built, they were thus violating their obligation to not hinder the building of affordable housing.