Category: Government 2.0
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Council meeting on growth
The Mayor has called a special council meeting for 4 p.m. Tuesday to give the Planning Commission direction on the growth management portions of the new General Plan. Residents concerned about the future of Walnut Creek development are encouraged to attend. …
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Backlash
Some angry citizen left a note pinned to a car bearing a SaveCivicpark.Com sign today. “Remove the house!” it read. While this citizen is obviously an avid reader, he or she must not be following our progress. See, we won that battle. Nobody is taking the house without a fair negotiation, untainted by threats of…
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What a City!
Lots of great letters in the paper today! I’ll weigh in soon with my thoughts on the general plan, but I hope plenty of you will log in and leave your own comments here. (I’ve fixed the comments so you just have to verify a word to post, not log in as a registered user.)…
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In a perfect world …
A great new Walnut Creek downtown library would include about 150 underground parking spaces with a design that puts an expanded building over the current parking site without encroaching on the tennis courts or rose gardens. That’s the kind of design I’d be willing to pay for with a November bond measure. …
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Can you hear me now?
There’s a funny Walnut Creek City Council quote I keep seeing in the Contra Costa Times. It goes something like, “You know, the folks who show up at Council meetings probably don’t even represent the real feelings of the people.” … Councilman Charlie Abrams gets The Quote in Sunday’s Times, where he’s paraphrased as saying…
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Round 1 goes to Save Civic!
There are plenty of happy folks around Walnut Creek this weekend, as citizen action forced the Council to shelve any thought of eminent domain for Casa Cristina (and to scale down the library project and scrap plans for new retail stores in Civic Park, according to City Manager Mike Parness‘ remarks in the Times.) ……
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Friday Flash
FLASH: CC Times to report no eminent domain for Casa Cristina. … Sunday update: The original online version of the story Friday was a bit different than the one that appeared in print on Saturday. The original version states that no commercial space will be sited in the park. … Maybe people wouldn’t have complained…
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A growing effort
Things are booming for Save Civic Park. John Morse, a Parkmead district resident concerned with the land-grab development going on in Walnut Creek, joins the site this week as a co-editor to talk about issues such as the new General Plan that goes before the City Council in coming months. … Theresa Harrington, our local…
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Not in my name
While the City uses our tax dollars to slap around one of Walnut Creek’s oldest families, the women of Casa Cristina have been digging into their own pockets for decades to protect their property. The home’s history is documented in Bay Area publications back to 1933, and in 2001 architectural and landscaping surveys found national…
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See that creek? They’ve been good stewards
When Elizabeth Heidt was a child, she remembers the creek very green, gunked up with algae. Occasionally stinky. Ducks were the only wildlife in sight. … Things have changed since then. Sunday I watched a blue heron take off not 50 feet from the wooden steps that lead from Casa Cristina to the creek. Herons…
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