EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. (KCBS) -- More than 900 people have signed a petition urging the city council to require a developer interested in building a supermarket in East Palo Alto to provide community benefits in order to build.Interesting... I like what YUCA does... However, we have to walk a fine line here. If too many requirements are put on the developer they may walk away. If we let development happen unchecked then we sell out the community.
Members of Youth United for Community Action, the group sponsoring the petition, rallied on the steps of city hall yesterday before presenting the signatures to law makers.
They are calling for Barry Swenson Builder to provide jobs, affordable housing, and money to fund youth programs.
The city council is set to discuss the supermarket deal at its April 3 meeting.
City Manager Alvin James questioned whether the city had the leverage to put any of those conditions onto the company. He said that unlike certain environmental issues, the legal framework doesn’t exist to require companies to provide the kind of economic assistance the teenagers were championing.
Dear Friends, Normal.dotm 0 0 1 888 5066 Northern California Urban Development 42 10 6221 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false As many of you know we've been in discussion recently with Wells Fargo and Equity Residential, the proposed buyers of the former Pagemill Properties on the west side of East Palo Alto. As an East Palo Alto resident and leader I view this issue, and how Wells Fargo handles this important portfolio as a milestone event for our community and it’s residents. First, a little background (from my perspective): A few years ago over 80% of East Palo Alto's multi family housing stock was purchased piece by piece by a predator equity group, Pagemill Properties. After the purchase Pagemill began systematically dismantling our rent control ordinances and aggressively evicting working class families. The community was in shock. However, the Pagemill group went bankrupt in 2009 and lost the property to Wachovia,...
How true John. It's a sad testimony to how fine we have drawn the "Profit Margin" line. When looking at the bottom line, we don't always look all the way down to the "Bottom Line."
ReplyDeleteIt is said that you will pay now, or pay later... but you will pay! Without benefits or opportunities for the emerging leaders in our communities, we may be dooming ourself to a self-fulfilling 'negative' prophecy.
"Dear God... move in the hearts of our communities to save the lives of children. Amen"
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