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Old 07-28-2010, 10:12 PM
 
Location: Mission Viejo, CA / San Rafael, CA
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This is kind of funny. Oakland is on the verge of bankruptcy, the police force has openly admitted they won't respond to crime, and the city is recovering from riots, and what do the residents care about?

A $300,000,000 stadium in Jack London Square. Talk about not keeping things in perspective.
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Old 07-28-2010, 10:13 PM
 
Location: Mission Viejo, CA / San Rafael, CA
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Jack London Square can't handle the traffic. Brown was intent on having people LIVE in the city and now there's tons of loft housing there. And there's some retail, but where will you build it? You'll have to take down viable housing or retail to build it, let alone have all these people PARK? They aren't going to walk 11 blocks from BART.

Besides, once again -- who's gonna pay for this? Looks like I'm gonna have to cough up an extra 300 some bucks a year to pay for cops since our esteemed city council has decided that instead of doing their own job, they're going to make it a ballot item and since Oakland is primarily renters and they think screw the home owners, we don't have to pay for it, it will pass.

At some point, things have to go away, paraphrasing Ecclesiastes 3:1...
I don't usually agree with Tallysmom, but this is one of the first Oakland residents who has some common sense about this issue.
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