======================== Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 07:12:40 -0800 Subject: Re: your housing element email From: Penny Cozad To: , , , , , , , , , Haven't heard a word from anyone about this email sent 11/8/01. Stephan Belcher will respond right away. That leaves me to wonder who is minding the Alameda Housing store? Planning Department Staff? Penny From: Joseph Woodard Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 05:22:05 +0000 (GMT) To: Penny Cozad Subject: Re: your housing element email > To: Alameda Housing > Subject: Housing Element > > I have been to two of the "public" meetings for the Housing Element Draft > presentation by Stephen Belcher. It's a little difficult to comprehend > without the document, which was not available for most of the public until > just before the second public presentation. > > 1] How can a reasonable housing element draft be made until the Regional > Housing Needs Determination numbers are corrected? Your document states > clearly that the RHND numbers are skewed for a larger need for housing than > exists on the island. The island does not have the 14000 jobs it once had. > > 2] If ABAG is the one who allocates the number of housing units based on > the RHND numbers, why are they making Alameda come up with a bogus housing > element policy that they know can't be accurate? > > 3] How does an area zoned (this is incorrect - it's zoned Manufacturing and > proposed to be Mixed Use by the new plan...oops!) for open space/park land > quietly go before the Planning Department as a housing development? > Reference the 1991 General Plan and the Housing Element Draft sites: Laguna > Harbor, Banta Collins, and Northern Remainder(208 units in 16.09 acres)