Alameda Cremations Inc

Pacific Shops, Inc. owns the property, which consists of 27 acres of land. The City of Alameda owns the 17 acres of waterfront property, which it has leased to Pacific Shops, Inc. The combined properties are located on the north side of Clement Avenue bordered by Willow Street on the east and the Alameda Municipal Power offices on the west. In 2012, the City Council amended the city’s General Plan and its Municipal Code to designate the 27 acres of land as a multifamily housing opportunity site. The 2012 lease to Pacific Shops, Inc. required Pacific Shops to prepare a master plan for the entire site. The lease called for Pacific Shops to find higher-value uses for the property so it could to fund improvements that include seawalls, bulkheads, public access and the supporting infrastructure. Last year, a consultant estimated that Pacific Shops would have to spend some $17 million for seawall improvements alone. In addition to these improvements, the city’s mixed-use designation for the property would allow housing that Alameda needs to bring the city in compliance with state housing laws. Two years ago, Pacific Shops submitted its draft master plan and began hosting meetings — some 75 in all, according to city files. The Planning Board hosted four public meetings to evaluate and improve the draft master plan. The plan submitted to the Planning Board on May 29 provides for:17.74 acres of residential development.7.35 acres of maritime commercial land with 180,972 square feet of maritime and commercial building floor area and dockyard space.3.59 acres of public open space.12 acres of submerged maritime commercial land with marina facilities.Residential development at the site calls for the building of 760 multifamily housing units, which will vary in size from 700 to 2,300 square feet. About 500 of these are planned as rental units, the remainder, 260, would go on the market. The plan calls for Pacific Shops to make 103 of the 760 units available as low-income units. This would include 32 units for very low-income household...

Monday, June 23, 2014. More and more families are choosing cremation over traditional burial. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)A "radiance urn," available for the storage of cremains, at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, Calif., photographed Monday, June 23, 2014. More and more families are choosing cremation over traditional burial. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)The gallery will resume insecondsAn urn available for the storage of cremains, at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, Calif., photographed Monday, June 23, 2014. More and more families are choosing cremation over traditional burial. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)A captain with the Atlantis Society scatters ashes off the coast near Dana Point in Southern California. It's legal to do so as long as you're more than 500 yards from shore. (AP archives/Chris Carlson)As they’ve done for years, Terry B. and his dad will go to the Sonoma Drag Races again this summer. Only this time, his dad will be going in an urn.“My dad died in April, and I’m planning to scatter some of his ashes out at the races because that was a big thing we did together,” says Terry, 51, of San Jose, who asked that his last name not appear in print — after all, it’s illegal to scatter human remains without proper permission, and he doesn’t want to get in trouble.That said, he also plans to scatter a portion at next year’s Redwood Run biker rally up north of Eureka — another event the two always shared — plus he will place some on his sister’s grave in Southern California and at his grandparents’ gravesites in Watsonville.Terry’s dad really gets around.And legal or not, such a scenario is happening often as more people nix customary burial in favor of cremation — the national rate is about 43 percent, according to the most recent data from the Cremation Association of North America (CANA).Families are finding increasingly creative ways to preserve or disperse the 4 to 6 pounds of ash that’s left behind. And the poss...