Opposition has to come from somewhere, and its most consistent form appears to be former Fremont mayor Gus Morrison, who wrote a letter to the Fremont City Council criticizing the A’s Community Specific Plan. In this round he assesses the A’s parking plan as inadequate, citing the A’s as having “only 5,800 permanent parking spaces [...]

A survey of 400 registered voters in Fremont conducted by the A’s shows that a majority of residents want the A’s in town. Results: 60% of residents favor construction of the ballpark village 69% of residents have a favorable opinion of the A’s 18% have an unfavorable opinion of the A’s Margin of error was [...]

Before I begin, it’s necessary to point out that the CSP is the first of what will be many lengthy documents supporting the ballpark village. And be forewarned: the CSP is the prettiest. Everything else will likely be very dry, fact-based, and for some, boring. So the CSP is not the end-all, be-all in the [...]

The A’s have a new press release trumpeting the submission of the development application to the city of Fremont. In the release are several interesting nuggets: On May 10, Wolff announced the completion of a land transaction agreement with Cisco Systems and ProLogis, giving the A’s ownership group control of 226 acres of land in [...]

Lew Wolff revealed on Forum with Michael Krasny that the development filing, due in 10 days, will be accompanied by 150 pages of documentation. Keep in mind that this “tome” won’t be environmental impact report. It will likely include the much-anticipated traffic and transportation study. It might also contain an amended economic impact report to [...]

There’s been an ongoing dialogue between the A’s and FUSD, with both at different ends of the negotiations. In today’s report from the Fremont Bulletin by Wes Bowers, the district revealed more about their projections for a new school that would service ~3,000 new homes: The range of elementary students generated from the development is [...]

This one’s a shocker. Today the San Francisco Giants announced that they will be leaving their long-time TV flagship, KTVU-2, for KNTV-11, the Bay Area’s NBC affiliate. KTVU continues to have a small stake in the Giants, which seems, well, awkward. The deal will run for three years, with the broadcast teams staying intact. For [...]

I haven’t had a chance to listen to Lew Wolff on Michael Krasny’s show on KQED-FM. I’ll pick up the archive later and comment those. Those of you who’ve already heard it live, feel free to chime in. Haven’t been able to past the last couple of days, so here’s the continuation of Sunday’s Part [...]