Upper Broadway Advocates
Resources
Documents, news articles, media, and further reading. We don't agree with everything we link to — but it's all worth knowing about.
News articles, media, links, and further reading on the CCA project and development issues in Oakland. (We don’t agree with everything we link to — but it’s all worth knowing about.)
UBA Documents
- UBA’s response to the CCA Draft EIR
Our detailed community response to the Draft Environmental Impact Report (Jan. 2024).
- Historic Resources Evaluation (Page & Turnbull)
The City-commissioned report finding all twelve CCA campus buildings to be historic resources.
- UBA’s historic-resources recommendations
Historic resources UBA recommends be incorporated into any new design of the CCA campus (2021).
- Oakland Heritage Alliance report on CCA
The Oakland Heritage Alliance’s report on the CCA campus.
- CCA Design Guidelines (Oct. 2022 draft)
The administrative draft Design Guidelines for the CCA site.
- UBA’s comments on the Design Guidelines
Our September 2022 comments to the City’s Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board.
- The Ridge site utilization survey results
Combined UBA and PANIL survey results on possible uses for The Ridge site (2021).
- Neighbors’ traffic report (Broadway / 51st)
A 10-page report on traffic and safety issues submitted to City officials.
- Developer’s original pre-application plans
The developer’s original pre-application plans submitted to the City of Oakland.
- Revised project description (May 2020)
The developer’s revised project description.
- Revised draft project plans & drawings (May 2020)
Revised draft plans and drawings for the CCA site.
- AC Transit 2018 Annual Ridership Report
Referenced in our discussion of public transit and parking.
Articles About the CCA Project
- Oakland “MIMBYs” say maybe to 19-story tower in Rockridge
East Bay Business Times.
- Plan for 600 homes could transform Oakland’s Rockridge neighborhood
San Francisco Business Times.
- Developer presents plans for CCA Oakland campus redevelopment
The Rockridge News, 1/19/19.
- As art schools go the way of plant stores, CCA plans to sell its Oakland campus
Berkeley Daily Planet.
Articles on Development Issues
- Blanket upzoning won’t solve the affordable housing crisis
The Planning Report.
- UCLA’s Michael Storper on squaring urbanism & density
The Planning Report.
- “Social housing” is the way to go
Berkeleyside.
- 7 reasons why high-rises kill livability
Smart Cities Dive.
- Oakland isn’t close to meeting its low-income housing goal
San Jose Mercury News.
- Oakland passed a fee to fund housing. After three years, it produced none
San Francisco Chronicle.
- Oakland should turn cranes into affordable housing
Opinion by Gloria Bruce, EBHO — San Jose Mercury News.
- Essex Crossing: a mixed-use mega-project heals a civic wound
The New York Times.
- Hammarby Sjöstad: one of the world’s most successful urban renewal districts
Baltic Urban Lab.
- What we got wrong about Uber and Lyft
The New York Times.
- How Uber hopes to profit from public transit
The New York Times, May 2019.
- Mobilize the Bay
A multi-group organization working to enhance public transportation.
Media, Podcasts & Interviews
- Michael Storper on housing (48 Hills)
Why the “trickle-down” theory of housing does not lower rents.
- Aaron Glantz, “Homewreckers” (NPR Forum)
How the U.S. got into the housing crisis.
- “State of Emergency”: California’s homeless encampments
Democracy Now! special report.
- Uptown high-rise with zero affordable housing
KTVU News.
- United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals
The UN’s framework for sustainable development.
Books
- Keys to the City — Michael Storper
How economics, institutions, social interaction, and politics shape development. Princeton University Press, 2013.
- The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies — Michael Storper
Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles.
- Homewreckers — Aaron Glantz
How Wall Street magnates and vulture capitalists demolished the American dream.
- Pictures of a Gone City — Richard A. Walker
Tech and the dark side of prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Housing Organizations
- East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO)
A member-driven organization working to preserve, protect, and create affordable housing in the East Bay.
- Housing Is A Human Right
Housing advocacy division of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation; fights gentrification and advocates for tenant protections.
- Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE)
A multi-racial community organization that won the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (AB 1482).
- Livable California
Advocates for local governments to foster equitable, livable communities and truly affordable housing.