State Investigation Of Alameda County On Coliseum Land Sale To Oakland A’s Is Wrong

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State Investigation Of Alameda County On Coliseum Land Sale To Oakland A’s Is Wrong

The argument advanced by the Communities For A Better Environment goes like this:

July 20, 2021 – Alameda County is facing a lawsuit from the community around the Coliseum, which the County committed to sell to the Fisher-owned Oakland Athletics without first offering the land for affordable housing. After months of threatening to leave Oakland, Athletics’s President Dave Kaval today said the vote for the City’s term sheet does not work for the A’s. If the A’s leave Oakland, they have only 180 days to complete their purchase of the County’s share of the Coliseum land. In a convoluted deal struck between the County and the A’s just before Christmas 2019, the County committed to sell its half share of the Coliseum to the A’s by 2026. As the A’s have said repeatedly, they do not intend to build a new ballpark home for the team at Coliseum, as many in Oakland urge. Instead, they plan to develop the Coliseum land for profit.

The problem is that the City of Oakland first issued the same claim regarding the deal in late 2019 and wound up dropping it after the Oakland A’s convinced the City and a Judge that affordable housing would be part of the development focus.

It’s basically double-jeopardy to charge an entry for the same crime twice. The City of Oakland was happy with the County of Alameda’s Oakland A’s land sale process and intentions, so why can’t the Communities For A Better Environment be happy too?

Moreover, the Communities For A Better Environment press release refers to the July 20th version of the City of Oakland Term Sheet – the one Oakland A’s President Dave Kaval called unacceptable.  Well, guess what?  There’s a new version dated August 17th 2021 and it says the Oakland A’s agreed to pay for (really help pay for) affordable housing both on and off-site.  Given the legal structure behind SB 293 Skinner, that could include the Coliseum Property.

There should be a law that stops this kind of constant, baseless griping over a legal issue already settled.

This is one more reason the A’s are looking at Las Vegas to relocate to.

Stay tuned.

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