Yesterday, the Oakland City Council voted 6-1 to approve the A’s ballpark project. Well actually they voted for a ballpark project, for the A’s, but not the actual ballpark project by the A’s. Make sense?
Unfortunately, a day that should justifiably have been a day of celebration for A’s fans was instead a day of confusion that needs to be unpacked and translated. So, here we go.
The upshot is that the city approved a non-binding term sheet for the A’s Howard Terminal ballpark and ancillary development. That is, by far, the farthest any new ballpark action has ever gotten in Oakland.