West Oakland Specific Plan
Background:
In October 2010 the City of Oakland was awarded a $2 million federal grant through the TIGER II Planning Grant program, jointly administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, to support a coordinated planning effort for two adjoining redevelopment areas: the Oakland Army Base Redevelopment Area (OARB) and the West Oakland Redevelopment Area (West Oakland). This page will focus on West Oakland.
The Plan:
The purpose of the West Oakland Specific Plan is to develop comprehensive, multi-faceted strategies for facilitating the development of selected vacant and/or underutilized commercial and industrial properties within the West Oakland community (see map for Key Sites). The Plan will be a tool for supporting, attracting and developing commercial and industrial enterprises to provide jobs and services needed by the West Oakland community and the city of Oakland at large.
The Specific Plan will explore a range of issues such as land use, economic and market conditions, infrastructure deficiencies, transportation, public safety and security and other relevant factors, to identify development challenges for the selected properties (‘Opportunity Sites’) within the Specific Plan area; it will then devise a comprehensive implementation strategy to assist the City of Oakland (‘City’) and Oakland Redevelopment Agency (‘ORA’) (now Redevelopment Successor Agency) in refining its economic development planning for the area. The Plan will serve as a concise, consistent way to communicate the preferred development strategies for the Opportunity Sites and in this respect will serve as a marketing tool to attract developers to these key sites.
The Specific Plan will support more mixed-use development and transit choices in West Oakland, present strategies for resolving conflicting land uses, and provide a framework for developing undervalued and blighted sites. Developed in partnership by the City, ORA, affected property owners, and adjacent business and residential communities, the West Oakland Specific Plan will help convey a mutually agreed-upon vision and development strategy that will provide private investors and public agencies such as BART and Caltrans, the assurance that the City will support, and in certain cases partner with them to undertake development of properties in West Oakland.
Project Description
News & Announcements
The work on the West Oakland Specific Plan has begun and will continue till April, 2013. The City will host community workshops to solicit public input in preparing the plan. The following workshops have been held:
- The first workshop was held on Tuesday, September 13, 2011, at the West Oakland Senior Center at 1724 Adeline Street.
- The second workshop was held on Thursday, November 3, 2011, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., at the West Oakland Senior Center at 1724 Adeline Street.
- The third workshop was held on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., at the West Oakland Senior Center at 1724 Adeline Street.
- The fourth workshop was held on May 5, 2012, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Cypress Mandela Training Center, 2229 Poplar Street.
- The fifth workshop was held on June 12, 2012, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., at St. Vincent DePaul Community Center, 2272 San Pablo Avenue.
If you would like to be put on our distribution list, receive more information, or send us your comments, please email us at westoaklandspecificplan@oaklandnet.com, or contact Ulla-Britt Jonsson at ujonsson@oaklandnet.com or (510) 238-3322.
Please check back here frequently for project updates and information.
Documents & Presentations
Background documents:
The West Oakland Specific Plan will utilize information from several sources.
Presentations:
The following presentations include information that was pertinent at the time the presentation was initially given, but which may have been superseded by information and discussion that have occurred in later phases of the project. Please contact project staff to confirm the status of the contents of the presentation:
Please note that the Workshop Number 5 presentation document represents draft recommendations. The project team is in the process of further refining the recommendations. The graphics and text are separate and we are working toward combining the two documents. Please check for updates.
Transit Oriented Development at BART station area (11.12). PLEASE NOTE! this video is approx. 1 gigabyte in size and will take a while to download depending on your internet speed.
Plan Documents:
Several documents will be prepared that will ultimately result in a Specific Plan. As they are developed, we will post them here.
Environmental Impact Report and Related Documents
Public workshops notes and summaries:
Contact Us
If you have questions about the West Oakland Specific Plan project, please contact Elois Thornton at eathornton@oaklandnet.com or (510) 238-6284
