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By Kathy Chouteau
Community members heading out to East Bay Regional Parks Sat., June 19 will have their park entry and some other fees waived as part of a Park District partnership with Outdoor Afro to commemorate Juneteenth. On that day in June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, 250,000 enslaved black Americans in Texas were informed of their freedom.
Park District fees that will be waived on Juneteenth include park entrance, parking, dogs, horses, boat launching and fishing, according to district officials. The fee waiver won’t apply to swimming, camping and reservable picnic facilities (due to COVID-19 capacity restrictions), district concessions such as the Tilden Merry-Go-Round and Redwood Valley Railway steam train, among others and state fees. Fishing licenses and watercraft inspections for invasive mussels are among the state fees that won’t be waived Saturday.
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How the Bay Area s biggest housing development fell apart in 2020
Adam Brinklow
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Overall views of the Concord Naval Weapons Station looking south towards the city of Concord, Calif. Weapons magazines are in the foreground, the city is off in the distance.Kim Kulish/Corbis via Getty Images
How do you kickstart a historically ambitious, multibillion-dollar housing development while the world’s economies remain paralyzed?
That’s the dilemma facing Concord after 2020, a year that not only dashed financial markets and upended everyday life across the Bay Area, but also wrecked this city’s critical redevelopment project at the Concord Naval Weapons Station, a huge disused military facility that could be its only means of significantly expanding housing stock.