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John Smith

@aglev33

I tweet about Oakland housing and office construction.

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John Smith@aglev33Oct 24
Preliminary application from EBALDC for the second building at the Lake Merritt BART station, this one an 8-story, 112-unit, 100% affordable (low and very low income) building: aca-prod.accela.com/OAKLAND/… Seeking by-right approval. No rendering yet.
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ZW2602537 Planning Zoning Worksheet for 51 9TH ST, Oakland CA 94607 has been changed to Pending-Document Uploaded on 10/30/2026.

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John Smith@aglev33Oct 24
Preliminary application from EBALDC for a 7-story, 90-unit 100% affordable (low and very low income) building at 2101 Brush: aca-prod.accela.com/OAKLAND/…. Seeking by-right approval.
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John Smith@aglev3313 May 2025
Building permits issued for Phase III of the development at 10550 International. This phase consists of a 6-story, 140-unit (34 affordable) building with 62 parking spaces: aca-prod.accela.com/OAKLAND/….
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John Smith@aglev3317 Apr 2025
Building permit application filed for a six-story 119-unit (100% affordable) building at Liberation Park (Foothill & 73rd Ave): aca-prod.accela.com/OAKLAND/…. The approved plans also call for an adjacent 3-story Black Cultural Zone Hub with a market hall, co-working, and office space.
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John Smith@aglev337 Dec 2024
Demo permits have been issued for Phase 3 of the development at 10550 International: aca-prod.accela.com/OAKLAND/…. Phase 3 will be a 5-story, 140-unit building (34 affordable).
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Daniel Levy@danl3v9 Feb 2024
1900 Broadway Update: 39 stories, 452 units, 50,000 square feet of commercial coming up. Will also be good to have the bus lane back on Broadway
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Yesterday Oakland City Council quietly passed General Plan rezonings that will significantly increase housing options and opportunity throughout the city, including in high-resource areas and near transit. oaklandca.gov/topics/oakland…
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.@Oakland city council just voted to upzone Rockridge and expand housing opportunity citywide! #UpzoneRockridge CC @Kaplan4Oakland eastbayforeveryone.org/2023/…
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Wood Street in Oakland was once one of the largest homeless camps in the US. Now at 2121 Wood Street union labor is building 235 units of prefabricated, affordable housing.
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Replying to @aglev33
Parking reduced from 145 to just 40 spots due to AB 2097! Thank you @LauraFriedmanCA !
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.@alex_lee's bill #AB835 for single stair reform just passed the assembly floor! This bill would enable the small-lot apartment buildings common internationally that California desperately needs.
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A mass timber building (1510 Webster) under construction in Oakland. The entire floor was built in a single day
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Crews are finishing up the basement for 1510 Webster Street as workers begin assembling the crane. oWow estimates they’ll start leasing units in 2024. This will provide 222 units of housing over 18 floors in one of the largest mass timber projects in the US.
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For sure. Could be wrong but I feel like I’ve seen them working on this 6+ months at least.
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EBALDC and Related are also in negotiations to lease and develop 401 Broadway from the County of Alameda. acgov.org/board/bos_calendar…
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Pre-application to demolish the County of Alameda building at 430 Broadway and replace it with 3 buildings containing 250-300 units (100% affordable): aca-prod.accela.com/OAKLAND/…. To be streamlined using SB-35 and SB-330.
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John Smith@aglev3329 Jul 2021
Building permits issued for Fruitvale Transit Village, Phase II-B, a 4-story, 186-unit (100% affordable) building at 3511 E 12th St.: aca-prod.accela.com/OAKLAND/…. That's several large projects in Oakland that have recently broken ground or are about to.
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Revised plans and Impact Report for the Oakland A’s proposed 50-acre stadium development have been released #rootedinOakland #planningOAK socketsite.com/archives/2021…
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#Oakland aiming to adopt its ambitious Downtown plan (and strategy for funding housing) by the end of the year #planning #planningOAK #RealestateOAK #housing socketsite.com/archives/2021…
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Roland Li@rolandlisf9 Jun 2020
Replying to @rolandlisf @Cranahan @thejdmorris
TMG says PG&E will initially occupy 600,000 sq ft and then all 900,000 sq ft when leases expire.
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After SB 50's defeat, California lawmaker unveils 'light touch' housing density bill latimes.com/california/story…
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John Smith@aglev3327 Nov 2019
This study of the effect of the proposed up-zoning in the draft DOSP on the 8 prototypes below finds that none of the prototypes would benefit under current market conditions, but prototypes 1, 2, 4, and 5 would benefit under better market conditions: cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/d…
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