Residents were divided about the A’s plan to use $850 million in city taxes for physical improvements on the port property.
OAKLAND — A divided Oakland City Council rejected a proposal to let the city’s voters weigh in on whether to spend hundreds of millions of public dollars on a planned baseball stadium at Howard Terminal, yet another wrinkle in a high-stakes battle over whether the A’s will continue calling Oakland home.
Creating a splashy waterfront ballpark complex at Howard Terminal is estimated to cost $12 billion. While the proposed 35,000-seat stadium, housing, hotel rooms and retail space would all be privately funded, mostly by the team itself, the city is expected to chip in roughly $850 million from a new tax district to help construct new roads, transportation improvements and affordable housing along Oakland’s prized shoreline.
“This is an unprecedented grab of public funds,” Gallo said during a rally at Oakland City Hall last week. “We have to learn from our past experiences to not make the same mistake again,” seemingly referring to the $189 million the football team owed the city but weaseled its way out of paying before relocating to Las Vegas.
But Jennifer Arbuckle, a member of several Howard Terminal community groups who lives in District 3, chalked the ballot proposal up as purely a delay tactic. She fears opposition to Howard Terminal — even in a non-binding capacity — will actually jeopardize the community by scrapping future union jobs and dashing the African American Sports & Entertainment Group’s hopes to redevelop the 100-acre Coliseum Complex for other community uses.
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