You may be wondering where I went since the EIR came out. Well, I buried myself in reading it for 2 weeks. I became increasingly disappointed in how so many of the mitigations and measures were being put off until later dates, to be instituted by other agencies. Then I woke up on New Year’s […]
After the release of the Howard Terminal Draft EIR, I waited for the compiled comments to become available. Beneath the pleas from transit agencies and housing groups, there was a video provided by none other than Union Pacific (UPRR). The well-produced video comment is not much longer than a typical music video and comes with […]
I spent over six hours livetweeting this thing for you. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1404907134270152705.html There’s also a 9-page PDF digest version. What you need to know is this: I’ll drop in more of the select tweets as I go through the night. Enjoy the process. My favorite moment of the long night: Looking ahead:
You’ve probably heard by now that the A’s received permission from MLB to explore markets outside of Oakland (reported by Jeff Passan). I’ll have plenty to say about this tomorrow. For now @AsFanByDesign has the proper sentiment: #RootedinOakland? pic.twitter.com/6Rcdal3tUO — Anti-Fisher by Design (@AsFanByDesign) May 11, 2021 Letter to A’s fans from President Dave Kaval: […]
– The other day I was looking at the comments Union Pacific sent in regarding Howard Terminal. UPRR’s comments are bundled with comments from RailPros, a rail services consultancy that would probably engineer any modifications to the Embarcadero corridor that is used by UPRR and Amtrak. As you might expect, both sets of comments deem […]
A’s President Dave Kaval unleashed a tweetstorm earlier today, urging a vote on the Howard Terminal project before the City’s usual summer recess in August. Accompanying Kaval’s plea letter is a 30-page term sheet providing additional details on the development. When I saw the top line arguments for the project, I opined that that the […]
Here’s a tip for reading the 2,000+ pages of the Howard Terminal Draft EIR: Do a search for the term significant and read every paragraph that contains that word. It should give you most of the answers you need and reduce the amount of background info you would have to weed through. Should you make […]
The Transportation-oriented post will come later this week. I assure you, you won’t be disappointed (by the post, at least). For now, I’m afraid we have to feed the beast. You see friends, when a team releases renderings or the rare instances when a city releases an EIR, there’s always a surge of new info. […]
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TRANSPORTATION That’s it. That’s my focus to start. Transportation will make or break this project. I’m referring to bridging the gap between the Howard Terminal site and BART. I’m also referring to the truck and train traffic adjacent to the site. Both have to be addressed in equal measure. The scope of issues addressed by […]
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