As we approach 2019, we wanted to update you on the continued work to permanently protect Tesla Park. Litigation We have filed all briefs for our Ultra Vires claim challenging the authority of the OHMVR Commission to certify EIRs and approve General Plans. This is the first of three causes of action in our law suit against State Parks and their…
SB 1316 (Glazer) – Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area passed the Senate and made it through the Assembly to the Appropriations Committee, but was not released from suspense and is, therefore, considered dead for this session. In the final stages California State Parks communicated their opposition to the bill. Although SB 1316 did not make it through the Legislature this session, we remain…
SB 1316 – Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area (Glazer, et al) passed the Senate yesterday. Thank you for all of your help with letters and attending hearings and so much more! You can review the bill’s detailed progress through the Senate at this link https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1316 . Next SB 1316 will go to the Assembly where we expect the opposition to build. …
SB 1316 (Glazer) will change state law to allow the State Parks Department to dispose of the 3,100 acre Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area (also known locally as “Tesla Park”) in order to permanently preserve the land if it is determined by the Department to be in the public interest. Proceeds from any such sale would be returned to the OHMVR Division….
More Bay Area Legislators have joined the call encouraging State Parks to act on the Alameda County Altamont Landfill Open Space Committee buy-back opportunity to purchase Tesla Park in a July 20, 2017 letter. We strongly support this proposal as a way to permanently preserve Tesla Park. Please help build more legislative support for this sale/purchase proposal. Get your Legislator to sign on…
Based on recent amendments to SB 249 in the Assembly, Friends of Tesla Park determined that on balance we could not longer support of the bill. Our work to Save Tesla Park continues undeterred through our litigation challenging the the EIR and General Plan and continued advocacy with policy makers, including through the purchase opportunity presented by the Altamont Landfill…