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The Oakland City Council adopted a Bicycle Master Plan in 1999 as a part of the Land Use and Transportation (LUTE) element of Oakland's 1998 General Plan. The creation of the plan was to promote alternatives to the private automobile. [205] The Oakland City Council reaffirmed the bike plan in 2005, revised it in 2007, and reaffirmed it in 2012.
The port authority's primary responsibilities are the operation of the Oakland Seaport and the Oakland International Airport. It also operates a commercial real estate business as the owner of Jack London Square, Airport Business Park, and more than 875 acres (354 ha) of waterfront property. It operates a municipal electric utility that serves ...
BART and the City of Oakland began planning in 1993 for transit-oriented development (TOD) to replace the surface parking lot east of the station. [15] Construction of a 450-space BART parking garage at the southern end of the site began in mid-2011; it opened on September 15, 2014.
The city of Oakland will lose 30% of its firefighting capacity in the next two weeks due to the city’s $129.8 million budget deficit. California city's massive $130M deficit threatens dangerous ...
The facility was owned by the City of Oakland until 2011, when it was sold to the local redevelopment agency for $28 million. [6] However, the redevelopment agency was dissolved by the State of California in 2012, [7] so ownership reverted to the city of Oakland. In 2015 the city chose a local developer, Orton Development, Inc. to renovate the ...
The Doolittle Maintenance and Storage Facility (also known as the Wheelhouse) is the operations management center for the BART Oakland Airport Connector.The building is used for storage and maintenance of the Cable Liner cars, and is also the powerhouse for the system's 12-foot (3.7 m) drive wheels.
That figure is also "nonnegotiable," according to Hanson. The A's, who currently pay just $1.5 million in rent to the City of Oakland, have a much different figure in mind.
Joaquin Miller Park is a large open space park in the Oakland Hills owned and operated by the city of Oakland, California.It is named after early California writer and poet Joaquin Miller, who bought the land in the 1880s, naming it "The Hights" [sic], and lived in the house preserved as the Joaquin Miller House.