Develop Alice St. w/o Displacement

We need to raise $2,000 to cover filing fees in order to appeal the Oakland Planning Commission's approval of the development on a 16 story condo at 250 14th St (at Alice).  We have until  February 12 to file an appeal of this decision to the Oakland City Council.

The City Council must hold this development accountable to not having detrimental impacts to a City of Oakland cultural institution, the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts. It should also protect the City's investment in the mural, which received $40,000 in public art funds. After passing a Housing Equity Roadmap, the City must commit to all strategies that increase the supply of affordable housing during this housing crisis, including exchanging building height increase and parking reduction for meaningful community benefits. The City Council should also enforce the Lake Merritt Specific Area Plan, which calls for 15-28% affordable housing units in all new developments.


The development would take away parking from local businesses, residents, staff and attendees of the City's Malonga Casquelourd Arts Center and local businesses; cover up a beautiful new $80,000 community mural, and not provide affordable housing or significant family units for existing residents.


Since City staff didn't do their jobs to ensure that this new 16-story market-rate development meets the community's needs, it's up to us, the people of Oakland, to make sure that Bay Development commits to our demands in writing:

1) Finance or fundraise 100% of replacement mural costs.

2) Dedicate a floor of the parking garage to Malonga Arts Center staff and patrons, to support the continued flourishing of its many dance and music classes offered to the community, as the heart of the newly designated Black Arts Movement Cultural and Business District.

3) Make at least 15% of the units affordable to families earning less than $64,000.  That means setting rent at $1,600 or below for only 18 of the 126 units.  Increase the number of 3-bedroom family units from 2 to 15 so that families can stay in Oakland.  Not creating housing for families hurts our Oakland schools.

Bay Development, and all developers, should be working with neighborhoods to meet the community's needs and requests if they want to continue developing in Oakland and benefiting from our public and cultural resources.

#KeepOaklandCreative #HousingJustice #FairTransitAccess

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CRP has been documenting this story for the past three years. Here is the trailer to the upcoming feature film on the mural and the community:


In addition, the Oakland Creative Neighborhoods Coalition has been fighting for artists protections throughout the city. CRP produced this video from a protest at an early Downtown Specific Plan meeting: