For those that are following along on Twitter you would have seen a bunch of videos I posted from the Bay Farm NIMBY meeting extravaganza. A very kind person video taped the event, a no small feat since apparently it was super hot and phone and things kept overheating. For those that want a succinct description of the event: loud and wrong.
These videos are all out of order but it really doesn’t matter because it’s a jumble of people who have not been paying attention super concerned that the City hasn’t done all these things that have now popped into their head because it’s everyone else who is too stupid to figure out these common sense things that they instinctively know. I’ll cut right to the videos in the order that I uploaded them.
This lady was able to recognize that affirmatively furthering fair housing was a thing but that, eventually, because market rate housing is being built on the West End that it would become a high opportunity site. What it sounds like she wanted to do was promise the State that Alameda Point would eventually become a high opportunity site and maybe they can just trust us and let us still stick all of our housing allocation there.
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