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August 04, 2006

"Court rejects Albany shoreline ballot initiative"

"An Alameda County Superior Court judge agreed that a citizens' group in Albany did not meet public notice requirements for a ballot initiative aimed at protecting the city's shoreline.

Judge Winifred Y. Smith granted a request by Pacific Racing Association, owner of the waterfront horse-racing track Golden Gate Fields, to block the city from taking any further steps to put the initiative on the November 2006 ballot.

Citizens for the Albany Shoreline had gathered petitions to place on the ballot a measure that would impose a two-year moratorium on development and set up a committee to work on a waterfront development plan.

Pacific Racing Association contended that the citizens' group did not post the proposed measure in three public places as required by state law, and did not publish it in a paper deemed by the court to be of general circulation in the county."

The article is here.

Posted by Randy Riddle at August 4, 2006 03:53 PM