Livermore planning commissioner will keep post but face counseling for ‘ghetto’ remark

The Livermore City Council on Monday declined to expel John Stein from the city’s planning commission, opting instead to send him to diversity training and deliver a formal warning over remarks last month some found to be racist and classist.

While deliberating Eden Housing’s downtown 130-unit affordable housing proposal April 20, Stein said he did not want the area to become a “ghetto.” He also said he didn’t want Livermore to become the Tri-Valley’s “go-to” city for low-income housing and expressed concern over vehicles associated with service jobs taking up too much area parking.