Source: Oakland Post News
By: Tulio Ospina
Date: July 8, 2015
In a confidential legal opinion issued in February to the City Council, Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker told councilmembers that their plan to sell the East 12th Street parcel to UrbanCore Development for the construction of luxury apartments would be in violation of state law – California’s Surplus Land Act.
Opponents of the project, represented by attorneys at Public Advocates, have repeatedly told the council that the sale was in violation of the California Surplus Land Act and that a decision to approve the sale of the parcel would lead to a lawsuit.
