Public Comment on Berkeley Lab, Voices to Vision 2
Scroll through the photographs to see some of what speakers had to say Sept. 19, 2011, during the public comment period of Monday's City Council meeting related to development at Golden Gate Fields.
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Richard Anderson: The project is out of scope and scale with Albany, so I'm completely opposed to that. Creating a task force is "like giving tacit approval... it seems it's not a very good use of city resources." (City Council public comment period on Golden Gate Fields / Berkeley Lab, Sept. 29, 2011, Albany, CA.)
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The City Council voted Monday night to create a task force to study the future of Golden Gate Fields. Learn more here.
Nineteen people spoke during the public comment period about the idea of a proposed development at the current racetrack site, which could include the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's second campus. The vast majority spoke against the idea of development at the track, asking for more open space and expressing suspicion about the intentions of racetrack owner the Stronach Group.
Captions include paraphrases, unless quotation marks appear.
Watch the meeting on KALB 33 here. The Golden Gate Fields discussion began at about 9:45 p.m.
Read more about the process for selecting the proposed second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Albany Patch here.
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Robert Marshall
8:51 am on Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Rather than spend money on a Voices to Vision 2, and then the debate on what the citizens of Albany do, or don't want, and what percentage were asked, perhaps a voter referendem on the spring ballot would be in order. At the recent Waterfront Commission meeting, as well as at one of the Solano Stroll booths it was said Albany citizens "voted" on keeping the waterfront 75% open space. There's been no vote, but there is a perception there has been a vote, which was caused by people's understanding of what Voices to Vision 1 accomplished. A ballot measure seems to be the only way to quantify if that statement is true, not another planning committee; especially in light of how finalized this lab proposal seems to be.