Wed 9 Aug 2006
Thank You for your support
Thank You
Thanks to all the many volunteers and supporters who helped make our election to the Albany City Council possible. We are grateful to each and every one of you for your support and insights.
We will be sworn in at a City Council meeting on December 11th at 7:00PM, 1000 San Pablo Ave. Please join us to celebrate our special day and to take the opportunity with us to discuss how we can move Albany forward.
As a community, there is much we can and will accomplish together. Let’s find common ground, bring overdue reforms to address our community needs and to plan for tomorrow.
Change is in the air. We look forward to working with you and to continue to hear your ideas on how to build a better future for us all.
Thank You,
Marge Atkinson & Joanne Wile
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Vote yields majority waterfront view
Most on council oppose large-scale development of city’s shoreline
By Justin Hill
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
The “Save Our Shoreline Team” sweep of the Albany City Council election this week has produced a majority view on a council previously divided over the future of the city’s waterfront.
But the results don’t come with any definitive answers for the future of the shoreline. Opinions of what will happen to the waterfront ranged from nothing to the possibility that the owner of Golden Gate Fields will be willing to abandon plans to rezone the land.
It appears that Marge Atkinson and Joanne Wile will join Councilman Robert Lieber, who shares a similar shoreline vision, to form a majority on the council of members opposed to large-scale development at the waterfront.
“This council is not inclined to approve any malls on the waterfront or gambling or ‘racinos,’” Lieber said.