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Creating more ‘safe spaces’ for youth New Parks and Rec Director embraces Brentwood
City of Brentwood Parks and Recreation director E. Harith Aleem takes in the groundbreaking of the Sand Creek Sports Complex back in early July.
By Jeff Weisinger Staff Writer
The City of Brentwood’s new Parks and recreation Director E. Harith Aleem is enjoying his new job. For starters, since moving to Brentwood during COVID-19 from his hometown in Oakland, he said he enjoys his shorter commute to his new office, he lives in a “neighborhood made up of a lot of people who moved from different parts of the Bay Area” in Brentwood, and his children have established themselves in Brentwood’s schools – his son, Aadam Aleem, was a senior lineman on Heritage’s North Coast Section semifinal
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football team last year, following in his father’s footsteps of sorts as he once played lineman for Fremont High School. “The commute is significant. We
moved to Brentwood for many of the same reasons that a lot of residents did,” Aleem said. “We were looking for housing, schools, quality of life, and
Oakley Planning Commission rezones 15 land parcels for housing By Connor Robles Correspondent
The Oakley Planning Commission adopted a resolution recommending that the Oakley City Council approve a new amendment to the city’s land use plan as part of the General Plan, as well as the rezoning of a total of 15 parcels of land to meet the city’s regional housing needs allocation, the amount of housing that a city needs to plan for in an eight-year period. The General Plan amendments will, if adopted by the City Council: create a new land use designation, Residential Multiple Family, which will allow attached residences such as apartments and townhouses; –redesignate seven parcels of land from Briefs..................................................12A Calendar..............................................9A
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The Brentwood Union School District, Oakley Union Elementary School District, and Liberty Union High School District have not experienced trouble from parents who are skeptical about vaccines’ efficacy as the new school year starts, their superintendents said. This is despite the appointment of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary Health and Human Services and the cancellation of federal research into mRNA vaccines. District officials said they intend to continue following Milestones........................................10A Opinion................................................7A
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Residential High and Medium to Residential Multiple Family; – redesignate one parcel of land from Residential High to Commercial designation. In the process, the seven Residential High and Medium parcels will have their zoning district type changed from M-9 (9 units per acre) and M-12 (12 units per acre) to M-30 (30 units per acre), the zoning designation for Residential Multiple Family, and nine more parcels zoned for commercial use will have the affordable housing overlay applied to them, allowing the construction of affordable housing on them. In the past, the City of Oakley primarily used the affordable housing overlay to satisfy their regional housing needs allocation,
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Brentwood checked all of the boxes. We moved here during the pandemic and have been happy ever since.” Aleem was announced as the city’s new parks and recreation director in late May after spending the last few years as the Assistant Director of Parks, Recreation, and Youth Development for the City of Oakland. He started his new position on July 1, getting thrown into the action almost immediately as he attended the groundbreaking for the new Sand Creek Sports Complex in his first hour on the job. “It was exciting,” Aleem said. “It was my first day, my first hour. I came here, checked in at the office, then we kind of did a quick tour and then I was out at the groundbreaking. A lot (of the day) was a blur. It was exciting to kind of start my
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“Children will not be enrolled unless an immunization record is presented and immunizations are up to date.
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Brentwood Union School District website state guidelines on pre-enrollment vaccines. As the BUSD’s website puts it, “No Shots? No Records? No School. Children will not be enrolled unless an immunization record is presented and immunizasee Vaccine page 11A
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