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Category Archives: Quality of Life
Homeowners Encroach on City Shoreline Property
Around 40 homeowners along the shoreline of Bayview Drive have been extending their backyards onto the city’s shoreline land, which includes wildlife habitat and a popular public path. Some users of the public path find this encroachment alarming.
Not a Forest Without More Trees
A written plan loses its meaning if no measurable milestones are in place. Much of the city’s newly released draft Urban Forest Plan update spells out in great detail guidelines for selecting, planting, removing and caring for trees. It sets … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Quality of Life, Trees
Tagged Alameda, Trees, Urban Forest Plan
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Funding the Police
Alameda is joining numerous cities across the country in rethinking how we provide policing before next year’s city budget is prepared. What level of policing we want and expect from the Alameda Police Department (APD) will determine the funding we … Continue reading
Posted in City Hall, Education, Quality of Life
Tagged Alameda, budget, League of Women Voters, police, reforms
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Medical Respite Facility planned for McKay Ave
Those who prefer housing for senior citizens, over other types of housing that generate more traffic, will welcome the proposed dwelling units on McKay Avenue near Crab Cove. Former federal offices now located there will be rehabbed to create a … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Quality of Life
Tagged Alameda Point Collaborative, Crab Cove, Crown Beach, East Bay Regional Park, homeless, McKay Avenue, medical, respite
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Palestinians Tell Their Stories at Alameda Library
Everyone has a life story, and many are being told at Alameda’s Main Library at 1550 Oak Street. An exhibit that combines black-and-white portraits of 26 Bay Area Palestinians with audio recordings is on display. The library’s largest meeting room … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Quality of Life
Tagged Alameda, exhibit, library, Palestine, Palestinian
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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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Proceed with Caution
I almost hit a pedestrian while turning right from Otis onto Broadway. My heart dropped. The very thing I had appreciated as a pedestrian caught me off guard as a driver. At some intersections around the city, walk signals and … Continue reading
Posted in Quality of Life
Tagged Alameda Peeps, campaign, crosswalk, distracted driving, pedestrian safety, police, speed, traffic
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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
Logic Points to Parkland
“That is not logical, Captain,” Mr. Spock would often say on the Star Trek television series. Can’t the same be said for putting housing on bay-front property that the East Bay Regional Park District needs for expansion of state park … Continue reading
Money for Nothing
Is it just my circle of acquaintances or is it getting worse everywhere? All this talk about the distressed unemployed middle class has me looking around. It seems that more people, even highly educated ones, have figured out ways to … Continue reading
Posted in Quality of Life
Tagged Alameda, entitlements, middle class, unemployment
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