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Is the future of Albany’s Waterfront in question again.
News of The Golden Gate Fields being for sale “has stoked a decades-long local debate over the fate of the prime piece of real estate along the Albany waterfront.

It’s unclear whether the Albany track would be among those put on the block, and if so, be sold as a racetrack business or simply as real estate.

Golden Gate Fields, bought by Magna in 1999, sits on 80 acres along the bay.

In 2002, Magna proposed developing part of the land for retail, entertainment and lodging, but by 2006 abandoned the idea after facing community opposition to a mall on the site.

“They discovered that’s a very difficult thing to do in Albany,” said Albany City Councilman Farid Javandel.”

Read the full article Weighing Odds on Golden Gate Fields
Where does   Marge Atkinson  the newly elected mayor of Albany stand on the waterfront controversy?

Other Articles:

Owner may sell Golden Gate Fields – Inside BayArea.com

Quarrel on Albany’s Waterfront subsides – AlbanyToday.com

Help us to build a new, safe animal shelter for one of the most progressive municipal animal shelters in California.

Donations to the cause benefit: BERKELEY ANIMAL WELFARE FUND A 501(c)(3) nonprofit

1. Build a ‘green’ animal shelter, as ’sustainable’ and environmentally friendly as possible
2. BACS has the lowest euthanasia rate of any city shelter in CA. Only severe medical or behaviour cases are euthanised.
3. Berkeley is a model shelter with progressive ideals. BACS keeps animals for as long as it takes to find them an adoptive home or rescue
4. The current shelter is dilapidated and floods every winter
5. BACS provides a low cost or free spay neuter program for every Berkeley resident, regardless of status.

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A developer is proposing to amend Richmond’s General Plan Land Use Map from Light Industrial (low-intensity uses) to a Regional Commercial District (high-intensity retail uses), demolish all buildings at 2700 Rydin Rd. and 4903 Central Ave., and construct a 99,000-square-foot Kohl’s department store with almost 400 parking spaces near Costco on Pt. Isabel.

The plan also includes reservation of a 76,000-square-foot pad for chain restaurant, bank, and/or retail uses directly on the corner of Central Avenue and Rydin Road.

Proposed Regional Commercial land use activities and circulation would be in close proximity to sensitive habitat areas–less than 200 feet from Hoffman Marsh to the east and less than 400 feet from the Albany/Richmond mudflats and wetlands (wildlife sanctuary) to the south.

The resulting activities and circulation (including late-night commercial hours) could negatively affect the long-established Hoffman Marsh and the Albany mudflats, which have one of the highest densities of shorebirds in Eastshore State Park.

Help protect the dog park and shoreline! Attend the Richmond City Council meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 16, at 7 p.m. to protest the proposed rezoning and new Kohl’s store.