Standing Together for Accountable Neighborhood Development (STAND) is a grassroots coalition of neighborhood groups working together to fight profit motivated, ill-considered, poorly designed developments that are destroying the character of our neighborhoods.

STAND is also a coalition of renters and homeowners, newcomers and decades-long residents. The members of STAND believe the flood of excessive, high-density, condo developments in North Oakland are going to change our neighborhood's identity and diversity by removing affordable and historic residential and commercial buildings.

By building coalitions, STAND’s mission is to make Oakland a livable city that will accommodate current and future population growth, encourage economic development, protect the architectural, historic and natural resources, open space and unique characteristics of Oakland’s neighborhoods for current and future generations through land use regulations, zoning, and public policy that utilizes sustainable building practices, includes affordable housing, encourages noteworthy and architecturally significant building design that complements the city’s existing architecture, promotes greater reliance on public transit, and strengthens the city’s public works infrastructure. In the Upper Telegraph Avenue neighborhoods (40th Street to the Berkeley border), STAND’s mission is to retain the existing C-28 zoning (four-story height limit) for residential new construction.