Some current members of E.P.A.C. are home owners who attended a Planning Board meeting on September 10, 2001 examining an entirely different matter than the park. In that meeting, planning staff helped BayRock Developers present their plan for developing Dutra and Fox/Wright properties. (BayRock developers have since withdrawn their plans for the Fox/Wright plot.) Planners and the Planning Board looked favorably on the development.
The 1991 Master Plan was going to be swept under the carpet and forgotten. We formed E.P.A.C. to make sure that didn’t happen. We protested. We talked to neighbors and circulated a petition opposing the destruction of the park idea. Nearly 300 neighbors signed the petition. We spoke again at following Planning Board meetings, delivered the signed petitions, and made sure that Board members knew we needed time to raise money to buy Park land. We created an information web site about the park. You can see it at http://www.alamedareport.org/epac/ We sent ‘letters to the editor’ to the Alameda Journal and the Alameda Sun. They’re on our web site.
Other people joined E.P.A.C. because they were also upset that high density housing along the Estuary would create more problems that it solved and would eliminate the Park.