Save North Livermore Valley has followed through on its promise to file a lawsuit against Alameda County after the Board of Supervisors’ decision to approve Intersect Power’s 410-acre Aramis solar energy project planned for North Livermore.
The group, along with Friends of Open Space and Vineyards and the Ohlone Audubon served the county with a petition for writ of mandate this week, challenging the Board of Supervisors’ approval of the project on the grounds that the development violates Measure D, which protects agricultural land and open space in eastern Alameda County.
The lawsuit also argues that by approving the project, the Board of Supervisors violated a number of other provisions, including the California Environmental Quality Act and the Alameda County General Plan. The supervisors initially approved the project on March 4 after nearly 10 hours of presentations, discussion and deliberations.
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The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office has charged county sheriff’s deputy Andrew Hall with felony counts of voluntary manslaughter and assault with a semiautomatic weapon for fatally shooting Laudemer Arboleda in Danville in 2018.
District Attorney Diana Becton announced the charges during a press conference Wednesday afternoon after her office completed its nearly 2-1/2-year investigation into the fatal officer-involved shooting.
Hall, a Contra Costa County Sheriff’s deputy assigned to the Danville PD beat, fatally shot 33-year-old Arboleda multiple times at close range while the Newark man tried to drive slowly around police vehicles trying to block his path in downtown Danville on Nov. 3, 2018.
Hall, who was cleared to return to duty at some point after the 2018 shooting, is the same Danville police officer who shot Tyrell Wilson at the Sycamore Valley Road-Camino Ramon intersection on March 11. Wilson, a 32-year-old homeless man, died at a local hospital days later.
The sheriff’s office released video footage of the Wilson shooting on Wednesday, hours before Becton’s press conference in the Arboleda case.
The Pleasanton City Council is hosting its biennial work plan workshop to receive public input next Wednesday (April 28) at 5:30 p.m. remotely via livestream.
Pleasanton officials are working to solidify the city’s newest two-year work plan that will guide the council’s and city administrators’ decision-making during 2021 and 2022, especially for how to allocate city resources (financial and staffing-wise) toward achieving those key objectives.
The list typically includes local construction projects large and small, key policy goals with short- and long-term impacts, and regional priorities.
Council members will review the draft work plan, which includes recommendations from staff and city commissions as well as carryover topics from previous years, during their workshop on Wednesday evening. They will also accept more public input from residents and other stakeholders about what additional initiatives should be put on the list.
To make the cut, a project or initiative needs support from at least three council members. The council is expected to vote on each item Wednesday night, and then city staff will finalize the work plan for formal adoption by the council in the weeks afterward.
