Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Alameda's Measure B Loses By 70 Points
Politics / People / Business Robert Gammon — Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:37 AM
Measure B, the widely criticized initiative sponsored by Alameda Point developer SunCal, lost badly at the polls yesterday, garnering a pathetic 15 percent of the vote. The "no" votes, by contrast, accounted for 85 percent, meaning the measure lost by a whopping 60 70 percentage points. The lopsided loss came as no surprise to SunCal officials who earlier this week made the unusal move of conceding defeat before the polls opened.
The devastating loss, which came after SunCal had outspent opponents by a margin of 24 to 1, also raises serious doubts about the company's plans for the former Naval Air Station. Top city leaders, including Mayor Beverly Johnson, had supported revising the city's low-density law for Alameda Point so that SunCal's plans could move forward, and said they only opposed Measure B because it included language that would have made it much tougher for the city to get a fair deal in the development project. However, yesterday's huge margin of defeat now raises questions as to whether city voters will ever agree to amend the density law for Alameda Point.
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Measure A is on the short list of most brilliant citizen initiative of all time, and good for the citizens of Alameda for standing up. Would that more cities had taken the same step back in the day.
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i think its not wise to build more housing. they have built housing everywhere in place of factory space. and traffic just keeps getting worse. we dont need more housing, we need more light to medium manufacturing. we need jobs that dont require huge commutes. we will not get a hunk of land like this again. we should leave it as is .it would have been a money maker if they would have opened it all up. instead they closed half the buildings of to rot.
But SunCal said their plan couldn't be done without the $$ issues they wanted. Ergo, the plan and the density isn't viable.
I would have voted for it if it was only the plan and density changes. The $$ issues with the developer was the reason my whole family opposed it.
The problem is that there was more than the Density issue in the measure. There were many who were willing to increase the density but had issues with other aspects.
Didn't the measure lose by 70 percentage points? 85 minus 15 is 70. Isn't that how it's calculated?
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