A West Oakland housing project got the blessing of the Oakland City Council on Tuesday, but not before it caught the eye of California regulators over potential state housing law violations around the supply of housing. 

Councilmembers approved the eight-story development at 1396 Fifth St. near the West Oakland BART station, denying an environmental appeal by East Bay Residents for Responsible Development, a coalition of local unions. 

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.