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	<title>Waterfront Watch &#187; hercules bayfront</title>
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	<description>Neighbors protecting neighbors in the Hercules Waterfront.</description>
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		<title>Labor unions voice support for waterfront project</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2012/01/labor-unions-voice-support-for-waterfront-project.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a remarkable reversal of the not-so-distant past,1 Bob Sewell, a Hercules resident and representative of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 159, spoke during public comment at this evening&#8217;s city council meeting to announce labor&#8217;s support for the long-delayed Hercules Bayfront project. Sewell announced the recent agreement &#8212; an absolute milestone &#8212; between labor and AndersonPacific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council to extend Charlie Long&#8217;s contract</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2012/01/council-to-extend-charlie-longs-contract.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2012/01/council-to-extend-charlie-longs-contract.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three items related to the waterfront project are on the agenda for Tuesday night&#8217;s council meeting &#8212; 7pm at city hall &#8212; not including a discussion of negotiations in closed session prior. (The two parties met for a full day of exhaustive negotiations on Friday.) Extend special consultant Charlie Long&#8217;s contract by one month &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bayfront task force meeting on Thursday</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2012/01/bayfront-task-force-meeting-on-thursday.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Bayfront task force meeting requested by residents has been scheduled for Thursday evening &#8212; 6pm at city hall. The meeting will supposedly focus on the recent delays in negotiations and will hopefully make headway in solving them. Ticking time bombs do remain in the development agreement at this point and appear to be roadblocks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Councilman Wilkins expects waterfront deal</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2012/01/councilman-wilkins-expects-waterfront-deal.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2012/01/councilman-wilkins-expects-waterfront-deal.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Patch continues to run their series of “prominent Herculeans” and their predictions for 2012. Similar to Mayor Romero, Councilman Bill Wilkins expects a finalized waterfront deal: &#8220;2012 will bring the conclusion of negotiations for the ITC and Waterfront Development and the approved agreements will have been signed by all parties. The City and Hercules [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council to approve waterfront zoning</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2012/01/council-to-approve-waterfront-zoning.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2012/01/council-to-approve-waterfront-zoning.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One step at a time. One step, at a time. The City Council will approve the revised zoning for the waterfront project (principally the Hercules Bayfront private development that surrounds an intermodal transit center that converges train and bus and eventually ferry) at Tuesday evening&#8217;s city council meeting &#8212; 7pm at city hall. Get this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor Romero sees waterfront deal in new year</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/mayor-romero-sees-waterfront-deal-in-new-year.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/mayor-romero-sees-waterfront-deal-in-new-year.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dan romero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Patch is running a series of &#8220;prominent Herculeans&#8221; and their predictions for the new year. New mayor Dan Romero predicts success on the waterfront: &#8220;The Bayfront/ITC agreement will be finished and we will have a clearer outlook of state and federal grants to fund the project. Hopefully, we will be able to start the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tidings</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/tidings.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A pause for reflection. Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone: &#8220;It&#8217;s called having a conscience: even though there are plenty of things most of us could get away with doing, we just don&#8217;t do them, because, well, we live here. Most of us wouldn&#8217;t take a million dollars to swindle the local school system, or put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council votes to keep waterfront project alive</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/council-votes-to-keep-waterfront-project-alive.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/council-votes-to-keep-waterfront-project-alive.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The City Council voted to approve four funding requests to keep the waterfront project &#8212; both the public (Intermodal Station) and private (Hercules Bayfront) portions &#8212; alive for at least a few more weeks. (The two partners &#8212; the City and AndersonPacific &#8212; will now hopefully sign the development agreement by the end of January.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City poised to &#8216;lose&#8217; $9.1m</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/city-poised-to-lose-9-1m.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/city-poised-to-lose-9-1m.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The devil is in the details, but the sin is complacency. Tom Lochner reported on the latest setback for the waterfront project and it includes an interesting quote from the new city manager: &#8220;&#8216;The project is never dead,&#8217; [City Manager Steve] Duran said. &#8216;The land is there, the tracks are there and the bay is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walking home with dinner</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/walking-home-with-dinner.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/walking-home-with-dinner.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a California Saturday in December, a perfectly pleasant day &#8212; not at all cold, but with a chill that eventually came through as the sun set behind Marin&#8217;s peaks. I was on my way back from the Pinole Creek trail. I stopped at Sala Restaurant on Railroad Avenue. I had phoned in an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council to vote on waterfront items tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/council-to-vote-on-waterfront-items-tomorrow.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/council-to-vote-on-waterfront-items-tomorrow.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The City Council will vote to accept the environmental findings and zoning amendments at Tuesday evening&#8217;s meeting &#8212; 7pm at city hall &#8212; as part of a bifurcated approval of the Hercules Bayfront project. The more critical items &#8212; the tract map and development agreement, i.e., the items that financially secure the project as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waterfront agreement still has loose ends</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/waterfront-agreement-still-has-loose-ends.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/waterfront-agreement-still-has-loose-ends.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The discussion of the waterfront at tonight&#8217;s special meeting was limited (even though it neared two hours). Outside of a few uncontroversial but not trivial clarifying questions from the mayor, the rest of the council remained mostly silent, which could be either a great thing (they&#8217;re so tightly wound into the status of the negotiations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council to discuss waterfront tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/council-to-discuss-waterfront-tomorrow.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/12/council-to-discuss-waterfront-tomorrow.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ahem, where were we? The City Council will discuss the waterfront development agreement negotiated between special consultant Charlie Long and the owner-developer (Jim Anderson of AndersonPacific) at a special meeting Thursday night &#8212; 7pm at city hall. The EIR findings, tract map and other planning documents are also included. The Hercules Patch reports: &#8220;Last month, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pedestrian Districts Study</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/03/pedestrian-districts-study.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/03/pedestrian-districts-study.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ferry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) published a study on pedestrian districts in 2006. The Hercules Waterfront District was included as a case study, and contains a brief summary of the open charrette process that resulted in the award-winning Central Hercules Plan. The case study also includes the painful reminder of the ultimate failed promise in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saltpeter: Waterfront Key to City&#8217;s Financial Health</title>
		<link>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/03/saltpeter-waterfront-key-to-citys-financial-health.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/archives/2011/03/saltpeter-waterfront-key-to-citys-financial-health.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Wisniewski</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hercules bayfront]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.waterfrontwatch.org/?p=10113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My latest column, a short recent history of the waterfront project&#8230; The city has recently assembled a citizen group tasked with rescuing the waterfront project—both the Intermodal Transit Center and the surrounding New Urbanism development that features residences, offices, retail, parks and open space. It is also key to the rescue effort needed to turn [...]]]></description>
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