City Council Meeting – 2/3/2009
UPDATE: Please check Dublin Townhall for a summary of the City Council’s decision on the Camp Parks / Dublin Crossings project.
The Dublin City Council will be meeting on Tuesday night at 7pm at 100 Civic Plaza to discuss a miscellany of items. Here are just a few of the highlights:
- Certificate of Recognition for Dublin’s former Police Commander (Chief) Gary Thuman. Commander Thuman dedicated 12 sterling years of service to the residents and businesses of Dublin.
- President Obama to Help Build Dublin Parks? – the Council will likely approve a request to receive funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan (President Obama’s stimulus plan proposal) to help pay for the Fallon Sports Park and the Emerald Glen Recreation and Aquatic Complex. These funds would help to create jobs in Dublin, provide an economic stimulus for the region, and provide essential park and recreation space for Dublin’s residents.
- Camp Parks / Dublin Crossings – one of Dublin’s next frontiers of development will be on the parcel of Camp Parks property along Dublin Boulevard – directly across from the East Dublin BART Station Transit Village. The Council will decide on Tuesday night whether or not to move forward with the Dublin Crossings Specific Plan process. Dublin Crossings is expected to be comprised of mostly medium-high and high density residential, office/retail space, and park space.
Please join the Around Dublin Team at the City Council meeting this Tuesday night.
12:41 PM on February 3rd, 2009
Just what Dublin needs – more high density housing! Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. Way to go city council, way to go…
4:02 PM on February 3rd, 2009
A Bishop Ranch type business park with Class A Buildings and Hotels circling the Central Park enlivened with Civic facilities such as the Children’s Museum and a Farmers Market with small scale retail/restaurants to support would go a long ways in balancing out Dublin’s need for high paying jobs vs more residential, especially the high density type. We already have an unhealthy embalance of High Density Housing vs Low Density. This development as drawn up would only worsen the embalance. A first class office park in a park like environment (ei Park Presidio in SF) mixed with Civic use would draw Companies from far and wide to Dublin. There is nothing else like it other than the Presidio in SF which was also a former Military Installation converted to civilian use. If housing is needed to make the project feasible, than maybe some in the low hundred, not in the thousand. As it stands it is just another Dublin Ranch Villages, Fallon Village etc… We have a chance to create something so unique here instead of another residential dominated development. As if we don’t have enough of it in the Tri Valley already.
4:21 PM on February 4th, 2009
How can another high and medium density residential dominated development be one fo the most, if not the most – important project in Dublin right now and a key to our future success as a City? If we are vying for the Title of Condo Town then yes this would be the icing on the cake since we do have a sizable lead on all our suburban neighbors. A high density residential neighborhood with a modest park and a few office buildings realistically will not be a regional draw that is unique to the Tri Valley. It is not even unique even in Dublin as there are already plenty like it (AKA Dublin Ranch Villages, Wallis Ranch, Sorrento, Fallon Village etc..). Other than the Valley Children’s Museum there does not seem to be much else to draw even Dubliners to the project, unless you are planning to rent or buy a condo there.
The best use of the location is for something that all Dubliners can enjoy and also benefit from. A project similiar to Park Presidio in SF, also a former military installation. It is a Business Park intermingled with Civic facilities, Park Space, small retail stores and destination restaurants, hotels and some residential. The low key atmosphere there is priceless for any Company looking for an edge in recruiting top talent. Lucas films and many top Accounting/Law Firms have located there. With some creativity we can create something similiar, albeit on a smaller scale here in Dublin. Now this will be something unique, not only to the Tri Valley but to the entire East Bay if not the Bay Area. It will undoubtedly put Dublin on the map as a destination for top notch Companies that value on going green and being in an environment that is key to recruiting top talents and minds. Camp Parks already has an up compared to Park Presidio, we have BART nearby to shuttle in workers day in and day out. Camp Parks can become a vibrant business park different from Hacienda in Pleasanton or Bishop Ranch in SR. It can be the economic engine that drives Dublin into the next Century. The thousands of potential high paid workers could only help local businesses and retailers. Maybe even drive up demand for high end homes, increases value for Dubliners and yes contribute to a top notch school system with families that have time to get involved with their kid’s education and also have disposable income to support the local economy.
Somehting like this will help Dublin to finally step out of the bridesmaid/stepchild image or roll that we’ve managed to develop and affirm the past decade plus. By stepping out of this density residential driven box or blueprint for development we can make that important turn. Otherwise if we continue to stay in that box and continue on the blueprint that is high density residential dominated projects we’d be stepchild and bridesmaid for decades to come.
All the while providing a wonderful park like environment and civic facilities for all Dubliners to enjoy. Not just furture Camp Parks Homeowners as the current plan points to.
Mayor Sbranti is right that this could be one of the most if not the most important project in Dublin as it is one that can finally bring the City together and also provide an economic engine that complement developments in both West Dublin and Eastern Dublin. The project as it is currently proposed falls well short of it as it is not unique or different to any other we already have in Dublin or in the pipeline. No one is going to drive miles to look at rows and rows of tightly packed homes and a patch of a park. There is likely plenty of that already in their own town which includes Eastern Dublin. We already have plenty of high density residential in Dublin (Eastern BART, Future West BART, Tralee, Dublin Ranch Villages, Wallis, Sorrento East/West, The Groves, Grafton Plaza, DiManto Property, Arroyo Vista, Fallon Village, Even the Blake Hunt Land. Lets preserve Camp Park for something more special than the norm, something out of the box that all Dubliners can truly enjoy and benefit from, be proud of. I’ve never heard of anyone saying they are so proud of an apartment building or complex and that they were estatic to have it in their hometown as it made a difference in them choosing Dublin.
2:25 PM on February 12th, 2009
Just logged on to this website.
stimuluswatch.org to see what shovel public works project Dublin has submitted for and saw nothing for Dublin. San Ramon, Livermore and Pleasanton were all on there with a list of projects from street widening to bridge building.
was Dublin inadvertantly left out of did we missed the boat and not submit a list? Widening of Tassajara, Widening of Dougherty, Widening of Dublin Blvd., Redevelopment of Downtown and Scarlett Court I would think are prime public works project to keep traffic moving and creating immediate jobs. Outside of Dublin is the 580/680 flyover.
Any insights from fellow readers?