The contentious redevelopment of the entire Oakland block bound by Webster, 11th, Harrison and 12th Streets, on the edge of Oakland’s Chinatown, has been approved by the City’s Planning Commission.

But as a plugged-in reader notes, as a condition of its approval, the development team behind the proposed 416-unit W12 project will be required to make a good faith effort to sell the project’s quarter-block parcel on the northwest corner of Harrison and 12th Streets, upon which 77 of the project’s units were to be built, to the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) for the development of affordable housing.

The remainder of the opposing coalition’s laundry list of demands for the development were not attached as conditions of the Commission’s approval.