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"I don't want to sell my property."
One by one as they stepped to the microphone to protest Alameda County's redevelopment proposal, Russell City property owners expressed that sentiment.
They were reacting... in the first of a scheduled series of public hearings... to a $1.8 million county plan to raze their homes and transform the blighted Russel City area into a 200 acre industrial park.
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Soil tests basic in a full-scale redevelopment program in Russell City were ordered yesterday by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.
Underscoring the top priority it has given the Russell City project, the board directed County Administrator Earl Strathman immediately to engage the Oakland firm of Woodward-Clyde-Sherard and Associates to undertake the soil study.
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Just one industrial building will yield more in property taxes than the entire 220 acres which formerly comprised Russell City.
This was the claim made last week during dedication ceremonies at the Cabot, Cabot & Forbes Hayward Industrial Center by Paul P. Shepherd, vice president for the company.
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The prestigious firm of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes Hayward Properties, Inc., is paying some $2.5 million for 200 acres of county redevelopment land in old Russell City.
But they're upset over an adjoining hog slop depot in plain view of the tract. They told the Board of Supervisors so yesterday.
"Awful," said Supervisor Leland W. Sweeney.
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Alameda County Supervisors will learn Tuesday whether there are any takers on the Russell City redevelopment area property they are offering to sell for $2,850,000.
The board will open bids on the 200-acre Hayward shoreline property at 11 a.m., hoping to sell the property in one unit to a major industry.
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Alameda County is ready to begin looking for a buyer for the 200-acre Russell City Redevelopment Area along the Hayward shoreline.
What the Board of Supervisors has in mind is a single purchaser who will buy the entire redevelopment area and turn it into a clean, well-landscaped industry with a high tax base and employment level.
Something less may be acceptable.
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HAYWARD—For the Antonio Ancona family, life was ending in Russell City.
They were the last family still living in the old community, which is being razed for an Industrial park. One relative was one of the area's first settlers.
Yesterday they began moving their possessions to a new home in Union City, south of Hayward.
But arsonists, the plague of Russell City during its final years, struck again.
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Dissolution of the Russell City Services District, superfluous now in view of pending redevelopment of the Russell area, is being recommended to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors by County Administrator Earl Strathman.
Strathman said a state-enacted district reorganization act of 1965 provides the machinery for dissolution by the board.
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Action on a permit to relocate the True Holiness Church in Christ from Russell City to Kelly Hill in the Hayward area was thwarted yesterday by a parliamentary standoff at the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.
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By Tom Harris
Flames from a wind-whipped grass and brush fire, skirling the eastern fringes of Castro Valley, threatened to destroy a dozen or more expensive homes along Crow Canyon and Jensen roads today before firemen and borate bombers won the battle against the stubborn blaze.
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