The Area Council held its regular monthly meeting virtually on
Monday, May 3. Major topics discussed were: (1) Countywide Planning Policies Update; (2) Cedar Hills Regional Landfill Community Meeting; and (3) School Siting Briefing Paper.
Our Guest Speakers were: (1) Nicole Sanders, Program Manager in the King County Department of Local Services Permitting Division and (2) Rory O’Rourke, Health and Environmental Investigator in the Environmental Health Services Division of Public Health – Seattle & King County.
The following is shown in order of the items addressed on the meeting Agenda.
Tahoma School District (TSD) Update
TSD Board member and Area Council committee member, Val Paganelli, provided an update. Tahoma
Photo by Kevin Sullivan/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images
We’ve reached the point in the Oakland A’s ballpark project cycle where the threat of relocation gets floated, and just like everything else in this latest iteration of the team’s recurring storyline, this time it feels slightly more real.
Major League Baseball has “instructed the Athletics to explore other markets” amid their ongoing quest for a new ballpark at Howard Terminal, per a league statement on Tuesday, first reported by Jeff Passan of ESPN.
“MLB is concerned with the rate of progress on the A’s new ballpark effort with local officials and other stakeholders in Oakland. The A’s have worked very hard to advance a new ballpark in downtown Oakland for the last four years, investing significant resources while facing multiple roadblocks. We know they remain deeply committed to succeeding in Oakland, and with two other sports franchises recently leaving the community, their co
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Draft EIS published for Kahana Bay Erosion Mitigation project
By BY LOUISE ROCKETT - | May 7, 2021
This artistic rendering by Oceanit shows the proposed T-groin, widened beach and vegetated berm looking north from Pohaku Beach Park.
KAHANA Under siege for decades, Kahana Bay has been confronted with the extreme consequences of sea level rise, adverse weather phenomena, seaside development and coastal armoring, resulting in the near-terminal loss of a most vital lifeline to the overall health of this delicate marine ecosystem sand. According to Chip Fletcher, associate dean for academic affairs and professor, Department of Earth Sciences, at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawaii at Manoa, the shoreline along Kahana Bay has receded at an average rate of about one foot per year.
Besides touting the hollow tagline “Rooted in Oakland,” Dave Kaval hasn’t been listening to most Oaklanders. For over a year we’ve been voicing our concerns about traffic issues related to the A’s proposed ballpark; and now, following the release of the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) and the Term Sheet, it’s evident that John Fisher and the Oakland A’s care more about putting money in their pockets than about the real people who will be negatively impacted by their project.
As a long-time West Oakland resident I remember less than a decade ago when huge semi-trucks used to park overnight and idle during the day on West Oakland neighborhood streets, creating diesel exhaust and continuous loud noise from running generators to keep refrigerated trucks cold.