The proposed 42-story, 457-foot-tall Emerald Views project would become the tallest building in Oakland and the tallest Bay Area building outside of San Francisco. It would be three to four times taller than the two historic apartment buildings immediately adjacent. It is separated from other relatively very tall buildings by 900 feet or more.

The recent meeting sponsored by the developers of the proposed 42-story development that would sit on the site of the historic Schilling Garden was more a display of rhetoric than reasoned discussion. Oakland’s preapplication/predevelopment process should be reviewed and restructured to provide a forum for achieving community consensus and better urban planning—not merely a mechanism for developers to create the appearance of support from a lopsided selection of “community representatives.”

Sidebar: Who is Joe O’Donoghue?

[Editor’s note: This is a sidebar to “An emerald view or a gaze through a Coke bottle fragment?”]

Chauncey Bailey was everywhere, covering, inventing, talking, and writing about it all. Losing him is like pulling on one of the threads that holds our hometown cloth together… and seeing what else will unravel. My hope is that multifaceted Chauncey is not remembered for his death and that his death is not used to diss the city he strove to cover in its good news and bad. That would not honor his memory.

Developer David O’Keefe will sponsor a public meeting Tuesday evening, July 31, to discuss his proposed 42-story building on the shores of Lake Merritt on the site of the Schilling Garden, adjacent to Snow Park.

Fed up with overflowing trash receptacles along Lakeshore Avenue, I headed to Waste Management’s offices to get some answers.

It has been nearly a year since City Attorney John Russo ordered a halt to verifying signatures for a referendum challenging the Oak-to-Ninth project passed by our city council.