[CPEO-IRF] "Alameda Point [CA] would be best zoned commercial"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Alameda Point would be best zoned commercial

Opinion by Richard Bangert
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
February 1, 2008

Alameda Point holds opportunities for Alameda's future, but not as a new 
residential suburb. Lower acquisition costs, fewer traffic impacts, more 
options for tax revenue, job creation, options for power generation 
sites and lowered hazardous waste cleanup requirements are among the 
benefits if we decide to redesignate the Point as a commercial zone. In 
2008, economic development makes more economic sense than housing 
development at Alameda Point.

Why not look at what the economic marketplace is telling us? Well-funded 
Alameda Point Community Partners walked away from building residential 
development at the Point after five years of planning. Oakland and 
several other cities recently announced an initiative to attract green 
tech industries to the East Bay; Alameda Point is ideally suited to cash 
in on this trend, as well as capture other commercial enterprises 
looking for a new home. Businesses like Clif Bar and Peet's Coffee have 
recently decided to move here, finding Alameda attractive. We've got 
green electrical power to sell, and we could have even more if it 
becomes viable to build a hydrogen fuel cell substation at the Point. 
These trends should lead us to a new vision.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/portal/alamedacounty/ci_8138945?_loopback=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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