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Peralta Trustees, Oakland City Council, Oakland Planning Commission, BART Directors, Mayor Libby Schaaf, Alameda County Supervisors, State Representatives, Oakland Coliseum Authority Commissioners, Oakland Athletics Corporation, 902 people have signed a petition on Action Network telling you to Peralta & Oakland Officials: Protect East Lake, Laney, Chinatown & Our Students!. Here is the petition they signed: We, Oaklanders, long-time A’s fans, Laney and Peralta community members, workers, and supporters of maintaining a diverse Oakland, strongly oppose the proposal to build a new A’s Stadium at the Laney Peralta site. We are glad the A’s are committed to staying in Oakland after almost 50 years, and we want home runs for our team, but announcing Peralta as the preferred site on September 12 without conducting any impact studies or meaningfully engaging directly impacted stakeholders, is a strikeout and a loss for the home team. The A’s are proposing to place the stadium in the middle of two vulnerable cultural and historic districts already facing major displacement of small businesses and affordable housing for families - Eastlake and Chinatown. This action will wreak further havoc on these Asian, African, Latino, indigenous, immigrant and refugee, artist, student and low-income neighborhoods. The Peralta location is the least equitable option of the three sites considered. We are dismayed that the A’s are completely disregarding serious and widespread concerns from neighborhood stakeholders who have built up these cultural districts over the last century. To put it simply, this stadium could quickly wipe out one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Oakland and the heart of our Asian immigrant and refugee community. Additionally, placing a ballpark next to Laney College would obstruct the learning environment at the most affordable higher education resource accessible to our low-income students, as well as nearby public schools. A stadium at this small site would create severe noise disturbance (both at the time of construction and during games), traffic congestion, senior and youth pedestrian accidents, air and light pollution, and trash blight. Altogether, this would significantly impact strained school facilities, with crowds streaming through campuses serving sensitive populations such as re-entry, newcomer, and high school students. Stadiums across the country have accelerated displacement, spiked land prices, and decimated cultural districts. Oakland deserves better. There is no amount of mitigation that can stop displacement from a project this huge, and it’s irresponsible for the A’s to make an announcement without real engagement or buy-in when they know that speculators will immediately begin to push-out the existing community. As Oaklanders, we pledge to fight this plan that furthers the displacement that is already making Oakland less diverse, driving out families and closing schools, and diminishing the vibrant neighborhoods that make Oakland an incredible town. We demand that the Oakland A's choose another site, and pledge to boycott A’s games and all Major League Baseball products if the project moves forward at Peralta. We urge Mayor Libby Schaaf not to back down from her publicly stated concern about the Peralta site’s impacts on our small businesses, and to advocate and vote against city approval. We urge our Councilmembers, Planning Commissioners, BART Directors, and State Officials to protect our neighborhoods by not approving land use and planning permits for the Peralta site, and passing immediate legislation to stop current displacement. And we urge our elected Peralta Trustees not to sell off or permanently lease public land for private profit. Now is when we need our public officials to stand up for our neighborhoods, our students, and our working class families. Education, not gentrification! Public land for public good, not private profit! Don’t upROOT Eastlake and Chinatown! #StAyTheRightWay You can view each petition signer and the comments they left you below. Thank you, Stay The Right Way 1. (ZIP code: 94605) 2. M a (ZIP code: 94704) 3. (ZIP code: 94606) This is just a land grab by the real estate developers. 4. (ZIP code: 95687) 5. (ZIP code: 94621) 6. (ZIP code: 94612) 7. (ZIP code: 94607) 8. (ZIP code: 94609) 9. (ZIP code: 94577) 10. (ZIP code: 94703) 11. (ZIP code: 94607) 12. (ZIP code: 94606) I am a resident who lives mere blocks away from Laney. Take it from my neighbors and I-- a stadium in this area DOES NOT MAKE SENSE traffic-wise, parking-wise, or rent-wise. Please pick another location. Do not contribute to the displacement of more poor Oakland residents. The backlash will be huge, we promise. 13. (ZIP code: 94806) 14. (ZIP code: 94606) 15. (ZIP code: 94601) The Peralta location for an A's stadium will have a negative long term impact on Laney and the surrounding communities. Displacement, noise pollution, parking, traffic, and safety are major concerns that will jeopardize the learning environment of Laney College. 16. (ZIP code: 94612) 17. (ZIP code: 94619) I'm an A's fan, former East Lake neighbor, and a 3rd generation Oakland resident with family roots in Deep East Oakland since the early 1960s. I strongly urge the Peralta Board of Trustees, the Oakland Planning Commission, and all City Officials to vote no on the proposed development on public lands. Oakland and its lower income residents of color are already dealing with the sweeping impacts of displacement in favor of development right in their home communities, uprooting generations of people who have called this city home. My deep ties to Oakland, my loyalty to justice, and love of the city will not allow me to support harmful private development all in the name of baseball. 18. (ZIP code: 94606) 19. (ZIP code: 94606) 20. (ZIP code: 94611) 21. (ZIP code: 94610) What Peralta should do with the land is build apartments for students enrolled in Laney and College of Alameda campuses. We are learning institutions, an environment for academic growth. So the needs of our students, some of whom are homeless, must come first. Also, the area does not need more traffic, added noise, displaced elderly and poor people living in the area. NO TO THE A'S - WHO NOW LOOK LIKE BULLIES. 22. (ZIP code: 94577) 23. (ZIP code: 94804) (ZIP code: 94563) 25. (ZIP code: 94606) 26. (ZIP code: 94602) 27. (ZIP code: 94606) 28. (ZIP code: 94607) 29. (ZIP code: 94609) This stadium would create a nightmare situation for a community already fighting for its existence. The A's should rebuild their current stadium, instead of destroying an historic neighborhood and adversely affecting the educations of Laney College students. 30. (ZIP code: 94619) I have seen way too much public money go to professional sports and very little value accruing to the City or its citizens. Enough already! Did we learn nothing from the horrible, and repeated deals/negotiations with the Raiders over the decades??!! 31. (ZIP code: 94619) 32. (ZIP code: 94606) More housing is needed. A stadium will destroy any possibility of housing in the area and will make our neighborhoods have less parking when it's already scarce. 33. (ZIP code: 94610) No matter what is promised, a stadium is only profitable for people who own parking. For the rest of us it's a huge negative impact on our neighborhood. 34. (ZIP code: 05207) Do not sell the land to the A's because our education is not for sale 35. (ZIP code: 94606) 36. (ZIP code: 94602) A survey of registered voters was done earlier this year asking for opinions about this. I'm curious if the results would be made public. 37. (ZIP code: 94606) 38. (ZIP code: 94602) 39. (ZIP code: 94605) It is already very congested in and around Lake Merritt & Laney. Cannot imagine getting off the 5th ave exit ever again if this plan proceeds. Not to mention it is a slap in the face to the East Oakland neighborhood who have been the A's roommates for 50 years. If you are truly #ROOTEDINOAKLAND than you should be rooted in the neighborhood that roots started in. #STAYtheRightWay 40. (ZIP code: 94577) 41. (ZIP code: 94621) 42. (ZIP code: 94606) 43. (ZIP code: 94546) A new stadium at the Peralta CCD offices would adversely affect Janet College and Chinatown. Jack London Square is a much better area, both short-term and long-term. 44. (ZIP code: 94606) 45. (ZIP code: 94618) Please build a new A's stadium at the East Oakland Site. With over 150 acres and great transit and auto access, the A's can develop a new baseball stadium, nearby, play on the old one until the new one is complete; demolish the old one; and build soccer fields plus a mixture of residential and retail on the Coliseum property. A NEW TRANSIT VILLAGE that would be a model for other cities as well as a wonderful asset for Oakland. 46. (ZIP code: 94601) A's stay where you are! Lots of parking and public transportation! 47. An (ZIP code: 94601) (ZIP code: 94619) the current site needs economic development and is MUCH better for the A's ballpark. i had mentioned this fact in the Oakland A's ballpark survey do not disturb the EastLake and Laney neighborhood. And this is just an excuse for the PCCD board to spend education $$ to get a fancier HQ, (ZIP code: 94619) (ZIP code: 94606) (ZIP code: 94607) (ZIP code: 94601) (ZIP code: 94606) (ZIP code: 94603) (ZIP code: 94606) (ZIP code: 94601) 57. (ZIP code: 94608) (ZIP code: 94602) 59. (ZIP code: 92139) (ZIP code: 94619) Oakland community members are opposed to this construction. Please stop plans of development immediately. If the people aren't listened to you won't be favored in the next election.