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Category Archives: Environment
Drive your Chevy to the levee in Alameda?
Alameda is in the process of updating its local climate action plan, and sea level rise will be on the agenda. Much of our shoreline will be impacted. Will we need sea walls, levees and dikes? A new system of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Alameda, CASA, Citizen Action for a Sustainable Alameda, climate, resilience, sea level rise, shoreline adaptation
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Sierra Club speaks out on Encinal Terminals Project
The Encinal Terminals project was originally scheduled for approval at the October 17 city council meeting. However, it has been postponed. According to city staff: “There was interest in getting the project on the October 17 City Council agenda but there are … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Alameda, Encinal Terminals, Public Trust, Sierra Club, Star Harbor, tidelands, Tim Lewis Communities
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Sierra Club Opposes Tidelands Swap at Encinal Terminals
The Encinal Terminals Project is a planned development on an old shipping site along the Oakland Estuary behind the Del Monte building. The project proposes to construct 589 residential units with commercial buildings, a park, a shoreline promenade, and a … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Alameda, Encinal Terminals, Public Trust, Star Harbor, tidelands, Tim Lewis Communities
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Homelessness in Alameda
It’s good to see the city creating an action plan to find services and shelter for the homeless who have taken up residence in the soon-to-be-built Jean Sweeney Park. But let’s not forget about those living in the encampment at … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Housing, Quality of Life
Tagged Alameda, encampment, Fruitvale Bridge, homeless, railroad, Union Pacific
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Shake, Rattle, and Ignore
Harbor seals have been coming to Alameda Point to find food and a suitable breeding habitat and resting area in recent years, taking up residence at a site adjacent to Enterprise Park and the Bay Trail. Rather than encouraging their … Continue reading
D is for Displaced – A harbor seal mystery
Part of a dock that was home to harbor seals at Alameda Point has mysteriously drifted ashore, just as a construction project is about to begin. Something’s fishy. The old wooden Navy recreational dock between the USS Hornet and Enterprise … Continue reading
Posted in Alameda Point, Environment, wildlife
Tagged Alameda Point, ferry maintenance, harbor seals, Marine Mammal Protection Act, WETA
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‘Brooming’ Street Trees
It’s spring, and the trees are brooming everywhere! (And, no, I didn’t misspell that word.) Many of Alameda’s street trees no longer have their wide canopies because they’ve been pruned to look like brooms—one long tree trunk with some branches … Continue reading
Nature’s Calling at Alameda Point
Promising news! Amidst the flurry of environmental review activity focused on developing Alameda Point, there’s a renewed effort for conserving wildlife habitat there. Councilmembers Stewart Chen and Tony Daysog have co-sponsored a resolution affirming the City of Alameda’s support for … Continue reading
Posted in Alameda Point, Environment, VA
Tagged Alameda Point, Nature Reserve, resolution, VA, Veterans Administration, wildlife refuge
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City, VA Must Act Together on Point
The clock is ticking. March 1 is the deadline for the public to identify the environmental questions that should be answered and the alternatives that should be analyzed in the environmental impact report for Alameda Point. I have a question.
Posted in Alameda Point, Environment, VA
Tagged Alameda Point, EIR, environmental assessment, environmental impact report, NEPA, VA, Veterans Administration
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Re-mapping Our Future
The environmental review process for Alameda Point has begun. Attached to the city’s notice of preparation, the proposed zoning map shows a couple of disturbing changes. The city has redrawn boundaries and changed a land-use designation.
Posted in Alameda Point, Environment, Parks and Open Space
Tagged Alameda Point, EIR, environmental impact report, VA, Veterans Administration, wildlife refuge, zoning
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