Comments on: Why are developers split over the Oakland City Council candidates?

By: 2008 best of the blogoaksphere « Living in the O

2008 best of the blogoaksphere « Living in the O — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:24:06 +0000

[...] Future Oakland – Why are developers split over Oakland City Council candidates?: Though the race between Rebecca Kaplan and Kerry Hamill is now over, this post is still relevant, especially since Kaplan will be sworn in next Monday. dto510 explains why the developers could not agree on one candidate, and I think this post bodes well for Kaplan’s future on the City Council and what she will do for economic development in Oakland. [...]

By: John

John — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:40:26 +0000

V: well, lets just play “My Research Is Better Than Yours.” The fourth line on each speaker card queries the speaker for an organization name, so that is where you would write it. Lots of people do so, even the bad guys…

Quite the opposite of dto510, I’ve yet to see a speaker card from you or hear a public statement; it’s possible I missed it, though. The digitial soap box is much safer though, huh?

By: Max Allstadt

Max Allstadt — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:38:52 +0000

Stating some facts anonymously and without clearly telling us what your agenda is.

Cheers!

By: John

John — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:12:28 +0000

I’m not mad – just pointing out some facts. Cheers!

By: Max Allstadt

Max Allstadt — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:25:04 +0000

Wasn’t this post about Kaplan and Hamill anyway?

Next time you come around, John, why don’t you weigh in on that issue. I’m curious.

By: V Smoothe

V Smoothe — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:03:21 +0000

Since when are people expected to write their profession on their speaker card? I don’t think most people do that – it certainly never even occurred to me to do so. Where would you even write that on the form? In any case, just to be sure, I went back and reviewed dto510′s comments to the Planning Commission on six different DVDs, and in every single one of them he very clearly identifies himself at the outset of his comment as a real-estate consultant. When Emerald Views is the topic, he very clearly identifies himself as working on the project. Your attacks have absolutely zero basis in fact, John, and they’re becoming tiresome.

By: Max Allstadt

Max Allstadt — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:50:02 +0000

John… really? It’s been five days since your last post and you’re still mad? Still trying to win the point? really?

I wish you’d tell us what interests YOU are representing. If your cause is important enough to make you spend two weeks trolling Jonathan, I’d think you’d want to share this important cause with us. What great and important wisdom do you have to share, AnonyJohn? Please, enlighten us.

By: John

John — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:07:42 +0000

Making things up? I checked all of the ZUC speaker cards for the last 6 months; none of dto510′s say anything about his being a “real estate consultant” -not even close. Just because you guys say this stuff doesn’t make it true.

By: Friday Links and Thoughts « Living in the O

Friday Links and Thoughts « Living in the O — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:38:49 +0000

[...] you’re only going to read one thing today, check out dto510’s post explaining why Oakland developers are split over Rebecca Kaplan and Kerry Hamill. Though I’ve been following this race closely, I didn’t fully grasp the split until [...]

By: dto510

dto510 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:37:14 +0000

John, I have no idea why you think I’m hiding something. If I were a member of the OBA I would have said so in this post. I do not write about my current clients on this blog, and this blog is of course written for the interested and self-selected public, not policymakers. I don’t know how you could have missed me discussing my work in front of the Planning Commission when my current clients are relevant, like during a big public hearing on a client’s project, for example.

I know that anti-skyscraper activists as well as at least one Councilmember are under the mistaken impression that the Zoning Update and current development policy discussions are all about one proposed project, but in fact already-submitted projects are exempt from policy changes, and confusing one project with broader policy will make it extraordinarily difficult to craft good guidelines for Oakland’s future development.

If you think that broad policy discussions that have potential economic impacts on a variety of economic activity require fully disclosing every business relationship, then should homeowners disclose their investments, because of potential appreciation they might expect from restrictive development policy that drives up the cost of housing? And everyone who works in Oakland is potentially affected by use changes, should we all have to tell everyone our jobs on the Internet? Many people, especially consultants, would use up quite a bit of blog space and speaking time if that were the case!