'Orindans everywhere, wave your hands up in the air'

April 05, 2014 by Orinda Watch

There are times when we don’t know whether to laugh or cry, or simply be profoundly troubled by our current city council and staff leadership and how they think about the public they serve. This is one of those times.

This past Thursday evening, several of us attended the “State of the City” address by Mayor Sue Severson in the Orinda Library auditorium. The lack of attendance had to be a terrible embarrassment for the city council and staff. Sadly, it also suggests the lack of trust Orinda’s public has in its current leadership. While we’ll share our observations of the setting and the talk itself below, what was astonishing was what went along with the talk.

Washington's 'Fair Housing' Assault on Local Zoning

September 12, 2013 by Orinda Watch

HUD's power grab is based on the mistaken belief that zoning and discrimination are the same. They are not. Zoning restricts what can be built, not who lives there.

(CCTimes) Plan Bay Area drafters buried critical facts

September 08, 2013 by Orinda Watch

Bureaucratic planners are preparing to impose a high-density, one-size-fits-all way of life on Bay Area residents, claiming their plan is required by state law. It isn't.

The scheme is called Plan Bay Area, a strategy to squeeze up to 78 percent of new housing and 62 percent of new jobs into just 5 percent of the region's surface area, over the next two decades.

Footage from the August 20, 2013 Meeting on the Draft Housing Element?

September 01, 2013 by Orinda Watch

It's right here under our ongoing research of the draft Housing Element Process...

What is Private Property?

August 14, 2013 by Orinda Watch

Is the ideal of private property something that we should uphold? If the answer is "yes", this video is fairly shocking in the violation of this ideal. Obviously, there is always another side to every story, and we get 'a spin' that the producers wish for us to see, but given all that we are researching and investigating in the Bay Area, the other side of the story here may shock us even further rather than give us comfort that "all is well" here...

"Regionalism"? What's that?

August 14, 2013 by Orinda Watch

While we do not agree with the author's attempt to link the Obama administration as the sole and original culprit in "Regionalism" agenda, we applaud the author's discussion and the willingness to bring such facts to the mainstream populace, which has heard almost nothing of these policies.