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March 14,1987 Vol. 1 No. 12

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Rockridge News

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Rockridge Branch
Library Lease Expiring

Rumors of the fate of the Rockridge Branch of the Oakland
Public Library have been confirmed.

The building housing the library has changed ownership for
a second time this year. In addition, the library’s lease expires
at the end of June. Reliable sources report the building’s new
owner may be willing to renegotiate the lease with the City.
However, the future of the Branch is not clear at this time.

Many Neighbors have expressed their strong wish to retain
the Rockridge Branch on College Avenue. This Branch has the
highest circulation of any branch in the City and serves a
diverse group of readers ranging from pre-schoolers to Senior
Citizens.

The future of the Rockridge Branch Library is the main
item on the agenda for the March 18 RCPC General
Membership Meeting. Director of Library Services Lee White
will speak at the meeting. City Manager Henry Gardner also
has been invited to participate in the discussion.

Plan to attend this General Meeting and let City staff know
your concerms about our Neighborhood Branch Library.

Block Captains Celebrate

First Anniversary !

Rockridge News distributors and their families filled the
College Avenue Presbyterian Church Gym Friday, March 6, for
a lavish pot—luck dinner.

More than one hundred members of the District and Block
Captain network have distributed the Rockridge News to
Neighbors and friends the past year to spread the word about
Rockridge history, proposed development changes, and plans for
the future; they joined at the pot-luck to celebrate their
achievement with an avalanche of salads, desserts, ham, turkey
and roast beef, garnished with generous helpings of conversation

and good cheer.
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March 30, Claremont M.S.

Neighborhood Groups To
Host Candidate’s Night

Candidates in the race for Oakland City Council District 1
and At-Large positions will participate in a Candidate’s Night
Wednesday, March 30, 7 to 10 PM, in the Claremont Middle
School Multi-purpose room, 5750 College Avenue.

The candidates invited to speak to Neighborhood voters and
answer questions are running for two Council seats: District 1
incumbent Marge Gibson and challengers Annette Floystrup,
Cassie Lopez, and Pauline Provinse; At-Large incumbent Frank
Ogawa and challengers Carlson Bobino, Ignacio de la Fuente,
Malcolm Kelly, Mary Emily Lintner, and Don Mackle.

The event, sponsored by RCPC, the College Avenue
Merchants Association (CAMA), the Telegraph Area
Neighborhood Group (TANG), the 38th Street Neighborhood
Association, the Mosswood Neighborhood Association, the
North Oakland District Council (NODC), as well as several
other North Oakland community organizations, offers an
opportunity for voters to hear Council candidate’s views
first-hand and to ask questions about their plans for Oakland's
future.

Council candidates only were invited since School Board
candidates participated in a Candidates Night March 10 at
Hillcrest School.

Come at 7 PM for refreshments, conversation and a chance
to meet the candidates; the program starts promptly at 7:30 PM.
Each candidate will make a short presentation and then respond
to questions from the audience.

Can you help with this important event? Yes! Volunteers
are needed for advance preparation of the room and to help with
flyers, media contact and graphics. Help is also needed the
night of the event with timekeeping, monitoring questions, and
hosting refreshments.

Call Barbara Anderson (655-3499) or John Wagers
(653-1871) to make arrangements.

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Planning Commission Room 115 City Hall: Public Hearing on

Fitness Lab (Rockridge Court) Major Conditional Use Permit.

Mar 18

Wednesday 7:30 pm

RCPC March General Meeting, College Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Discussion of the future of the Rockridge Branch Public Library.
Lelia White, Director of Library Services and Henry Gardner, City Manager,
will be available to answer questions.

The Rockridge News

March 14, 1987

Candidates for City Council, District |...

Annette Floystrup

As I reflect on the issues that have
occupied my time in the last two years on
RCPC’s Executive Board, it is clear that
they all come down to one word—
planning. I have worked most actively on
the issues of Dreyer’s, Yoshi’s, and a new
city Demolition Ordinance.

The three most important issues
facing District 1 in the immediate future
are all bound to the planning process.
First, we must work to eliminate
provision 7012 from the planning code.
This provision allows the extension of a
zoned use 150 feet beyond the current
zoning boundary through the obtainment
of a Major Conditional Use Variance.
This vehicle allowed Dreyer’s to plan their
world corporate headquarters building on
College Avenue. Elimination of 7012
would strengthen existing zoning.

The Rockridge Area Specific Plan
(RASP) is necessary for the preservation
of the quality of life for those residential
areas adjacent to College Avenue. RASP
will help College Avenue Merchants by
eliminating the threat of overdevelopment
which would ultimately destroy the small
business environment of College Avenue.

Second, Telegraph Avenue Neigh-
borhood Group (TANG) must be assisted
in its comprehensive down-zoning effort
to support a regeneration of neighborhood
oriented small business along the
Telegraph Avenue corridor. We must
make an effort to bring small businesses
back to the San Pablo/Golden Gate area
abutting Emeryville. Emeryville just
below this area is enjoying unprecedented
revitalization, and spill-over development
must be encouraged.

Third, we need to attract more small
business to District 1. Incentives must be
designed to make it easy and attractive for
businesses to start up in Oakland. Cur-
rently, four neighborhood shopping areas,
College, Montclair, Piedmont and Lake-
shore make up the revenue backbone of
the City. Clearly, the expansion of
neighborhood shopping areas is in the
best interests of both the neighborhoods
and the city.

My major goals are to achieve a
strong and equitable planning process, to
facilitate the revitalization of neigh-
borhood shopping areas, and to support
small business growth to expand job
opportunities in Oakland. I will be your
neighborhood voice on the city council.

Marge Gibson

Neighborhood and environmental
preservation, security on the streets and in
our homes, plus employment and the
pursuit of a quality lifestyle are the three
most pressing issues currently facing

North Oakland.

NEIGHBORHOOD ANDENVIRON-
MENTAL PRESERVATION © .

The beauty of the Rockridge Area 1s
its rich mix of residential and small
commercial properties. As the area
continues to grow, parking congestion —
compounded by the BART station and a
proliferation of food services — neces-
sitate a specific plan to _ eliminate
piecemeal decisions. To that end, I recen-
tly obtained support from Cal-Berkeley to
prepare the data base for the specific plan.

I am opposed to commercial uses
expanding into residential areas. When
the Dreyer’s issue came before the City
Council, I voted against the resolution “to
recognize the importance of Dreyer’s Ice
Cream in Oakland, and (for the
neighborhood and Dreyer’s to meet and try
to negotiate and keep Dreyer’s in Oak-
land.” To date, I have not been convinced
by  Dreyer’s arguments favoring
expansion.

I support the C—31 planning concept
for College Avenue which promotes retail
pedestrian comparison shopping at the
ground level, and more importantly the
spirit behind these regulations.

SECURITY ON THE STREETS
AND IN OUR HOMES

It is absolutely necessary to maintain
basic police and fire services. College
Avenue now has its own foot patrol
officer. I saved the Rockridge Fire Station
by convincing fellow council members
that monies earmarked for council office
renovation would be more wisely spent
protecting the citizens of Oakland.

I will continue finding innovative
ways to insure fire and police protection,
and to fight crime and drug abuse.

EMPLOYMENT AND THE PUR-
SUIT OF A QUALITY LIFESTYLE

I will also continue my efforts to
attract new business to Oakland insuring
that the benefits of redevelopment flow to
the neighborhoods through jobs and an
enriched cultural life. As chairman of the
City Council’s Cultural Services, Ed-
ucation, Recreation and Sports Com-
mittee, I stand on my record of major
accomplishments in support of the arts
which include the hiring of the City’s arts

coordinator and opening the new Ali
Arts Center. 1 pty

Cassie Lopez

Safe neighborhoods, sound planning
and job creation are the three most pres-
sing issues for North Oakland and our
entire community.

SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS

Whether we live in the hills or the
flatlands, many of us no longer feel safe at
home or on the street. At the top of my
priorities is the EXPANSION OF
POLICE SERVICES THROUGHOUT
THE DISTRICT AND THE REDIREC-
TING OF POLICE DEPARTMENT PRI-
ORITIES to focus greater attention on
community—based strategies for crime
prevention. Effective programs such as
neighborhood watch, senior escort, domes-
tic violence programs, and community
boards for dispute resolution are a far
better use of our tax dollars than expen-
sive and ineffective hardware such as
helicopters.

SOUND PLANNING

North Oakland neighborhoods also
suffer from a lack of sound planning. At
the expense of our neighborhoods, the
current city council has directed huge
sums of money away from the general
budget and into downtown redevelopment
projects. In the meantime, large areas of
our district face commercial over-
development and increasing traffic and
parking congestion, while other areas are
being short-changed in essential services
such as banking and food markets. Asa
council member, I will fight for specific
measures to guarantee GREATER PUB-
LIC DECISION-MAKING IN THE
PLANNING PROCESS. These include:
greater review of development proposals
(longer notification time and a larger
radius of notification); changing the
Oakland Planning Code to restrict
commercial development which negatively
affects neighborhoods; maintaining the
diversity of existing businesses by
assuring that small businesses are not
priced out of neighborhoods; establishing
comprehensive commercial revitalization
efforts for San Pablo, Shattuck and
Telegraph Avenues.

JOB CREATION

An agenda for a healthy and secure
community must include a practical pro-
gram for MAINTAINING EXISTING
JOBS AND ENSURING THAT OAK-
LAND RESIDENTS GET THEIR FAIR
SHARE OF NEW EMPLOYMENT OP-
PORTUNITIES. I will work to establish:
a mandatory “Hire Oakland First”
program, with enforceable development
agreements; a program of assistance to
small businesses, where most new jobs

See Lopez bottom left of Page 3.

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...Council, Cont'd.

Pauline Provinse

AIDS is a human species killer. It is
the first infection we know, which has the
capability of making the human species

extinct. We must act immediately to
insure that local, state and national
governments carry out a_ fullscale

emergency mobilization to implement a
two-fold program:

1) public health measures’ of
mass—testing, and medically required
isolation of carriers, to get us through the
next ten years, when it is extremely
unlikely that we will have a cure or
vaccine;

2) an “Apollo—style crash program”
of combined clinical, conventional
biological and optical biology research,
the combined efort given the mission of
conquering the virus.

To win the battle to stop AIDS, and a
ruthless war on drugs; and to end the

poverty conditions that 1/3 to 1/2 of our
city is forced to live in — that is why I
am running.

This time the voters must choose a
city councilwoman who will not put
obligations to special interest groups
above the lives of them and their families,

About These
Candidate Statements

RCPC requested these statements
from candidates running for City
Council, District 1, Council At-Large
and Board of Education, District 1, to
assist Rockridge Neighbors in their
voting decisions on April 21.

Candidates were asked to submit
Statements not longer than 350 words
and speaking to these questions:

What do you consider the three

most pressing issues facing the North
Oakland community?

What three goals do you want to
achieve while in office?

Council District 1 and Board of
Education candidate statements appear
in this issue. At-Large statements
will be printed in the April issue of the
Rockridge News.

Lopez, from bottom right of Page 2.
are located; trade agree

with unions, community groups and

businesses, to prevent plant closures and

retrain displaced workers.

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Candidates for School Board: District 1...

Charles Aikens

ments with the Port
of Oakland; and strategies, in cooperation

I’m a candidate for the Oakland
Schools District #1 School Board Seat
because I think student performance ought
to be the prime concern for board
members, teachers, administrators and
support staff. If elected, I will fight for
Increased Parental Involvement and
Educational Training, Mandatory Drug
Education, Small Business Training and
Higher Pupil Performance. I’m not
seeking to delude our taxpayers into
believing that the district can escape its
many problems by making a clean break
with the past. But we can, in the words
of poet Rober Frost, ...get away from
these problems for awhile and then come
back and begin over.

We can begin over by sharing new
ideas that will help students to solve their
learning problems. Most of Oakland’s
high school seniors have been graduating
with ninth grade education levels, as
indicated in the James Guthrie Report. To
this end, I agree with Darlene Lawson’s
and Joe Coto’s new mandate for ‘No
Excuses”, because enough is enough. We
must now begin to confront the new
challenges of educating our children so
they will be able to live harmonious lives
in the 21st Century. We must approach
this task with dynamic energy, instead of
falling into the same trap of great athletes
who try to live off yesterday’s glories by
laughing at tomorrow and refusing to
train. When the moment of truth arrives,
the old heroes can no longer deliver. I
want to see the Oakland School System
produce more than empty headed athletes.

To make education successful, none
of us in the education business as parents
or constituents can afford to suffer from
what education writer Don Bagin calls
“Coast Out”, where one looks forward to
retirement with 10-20 years to go. The
District needs risk takers who will
implement ideas of its employees.
Studies show some 70 per cent of teachers
and administrators have stopped
Suggesting ways to improve their schools,
simply because no one implements their
ideas. I see the board’s major
responsibility as insuring that the

Superintendent it hires has broad based
community and board support. This
leader must be capable of providing
training for teachers, who are the key to
educational reform. Administrators must

assist them without trying to dominate
their ideas.

Patricia Hirota

The North Oakland Community is a
rapidly growing and changing community,
The three most pressing issues are: 1)
development, 2) quality of our schools,
and 3) city services.

Commercial development of College
Avenue, residential development in the
hills and utilization of the Grove Street
campus are all issues that indicate the need
for planned and balanced development in
North Oakland. Residents must be
involved in decision making and solutions
which take into account long range
planning for North Oakland must be
adopted. Overdevelopment in this popular
area of the city can lead to destruction of
Open space, noise and parking problems.

The schools in North Oakland vary
widely in test scores, safety programs, and
parent involvement. We must have
strong leadership at all of our schools —a
District One area school council is one
way to begin to share ideas over
instructional strategies and fundraising,
and deal jointly with common concerms.

North Oakland’s growing professional
and families with small children
population, as well as its existing senior
and long term residents, need better street
cleaning, library, police/fire and other city
services. Quality of life in the neigh-
borhoods must be a priority of city
government.

While in office, my goals are to: 1)
decentralize decision making, 2) improve
budget planning, and 3) improve the high
schools. Strong principals who can work
with parents and teachers are the single
most important factor in improving our

schools. Decentralization of
administrative decision making and
Strengthening leadership and

accountability at the school sites are the
keys to success.

Long range budget planning should
be implemented. There is currently no
plan beyond the current year, so we are
constantly reacting to crises.

Our high schools are the weakest
point. We must make substantial head-
way in both academics and school safety.
We need joint programs with local
employers in skills training incentives for
parent participation. We should work
more closely with local colleges and
uNiversities to expose our students to
college curriculum and resources.

My experience as a parent, teacher,
administrator and community organizer,
involving people of all nationalities in

government, has taught me that people
can make change!

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Sheila Jordan

My name is Sheila Jordan and I am
_ynning for Oakland School Board for
nistrict 1. I have been a resident of North
Oakland for 20 years and a teacher for the
-ame amount of time. My son, Matthew,
went to Peralta Elementary and currently
attends Claremont Middle School.

| am running for school board because
Oakland Public Schools are not
functioning well. We have a top heavy
-entral admnistration, and class sizes that
are among the largest in the state. There
‘+s no coordination of curriculum between
schools nor is there a plan that addresses
the problems of overcrowded and
ynderutilized § schools. This is
unacceptable and must be reversed.

I believe the potential exists for
creating a school system that provides a
quality education for ALL our children.
There is much talent and resources in our
community that is not being utilized. In
North Oakland we have a number of
schools that we can be proud of. We need
to look at the winning combination of
administration, staff and parents working
together to provide a learning atmosphere
with high standards and a strong and
creative curriculum for our children.

It is the board’s responsibility to
establish a “classroom first” budget. With
such an orientation in place the district
will be in a good position to rally public
support for more funding for the schools.

When elected, I intend to see to it that
the school district provides the educational
services that it is supposed to provide.
The board must establish clear policies
and priorities with input from and
accountability to the community.

We in District 1 have seen schools
successfully turned around, and have seen
how important it is to have strong
administrators, creative teachers, and
involved parents working together. Those
who are closest to the classroom must
have a voice in deciding what will go on
there.

As a parent and an educator, I am
qualified to serve our great community on
the School Board.

Tay McArthur

The pressing educational needs of
North Oakland are the same as those found
throughout our City.

1. The desire to have quality ed-
ucation, as the bottom line, in every
school.

2. Concer over the possibility of yet

another teachers strike at the end of their
1985-88 contract.

__ 3. To have more pride in: our indi-
vidual and collective schools.

The Benito Juarez quote, “Respect for
the rights of others is the essence of
peace,” is my theme for service on the
Board.

Consider how using “RESPECT” as
the District’s watchword can enhance the
whole picture:

1. To create a staffwide positive
atmosphere, that builds a smooth,
efficient, upbeat operation for every facet
of this District. Solicitation of and
RESPECT for ideas from every employee
about, “What better ways might we use to
do the job?” Who knows better than the
people doing the job? By incorporating
RECOGNIZABLY their ideas, morale,
TRUST, self-esteem, healthful reduction
of stress, and productivity all increase.
Each child will “feel” that reduced stress
and morale change. More efficiency and
productivity, with fewer people out
because of stress, has to result in more
funds being available to the classroom for
special staffing needs and materials that
collectively provide really plus learning
settings thereby reducing many conflicts
and unsafe conditions in the classroom.

2. The “need” to strike can be
overcome by the Board’s genuine
willingness (trust) to share with the
employees a substantive participation in
the budgeting process — not just the
heretofore “INPUT”. That RESPECT
will engender a level of TRUST that has
not been in evidence in my 23 years of
teaching at Oakland Tech or my 20 years
on the Board of Directors of the Oakland
Education Association (including two
terms as President) or my 17 years on the
teachers collective bargaining team. That
TRUST can be there in all of bargaining,
and will begin by having a Board member
that is known throughout the District and
knows the full process. When there is
TRUST and faimess THERE ARE NO

STRIKES.
3. Resolve the above two and the

image shifts and “pride” results.

Oscar Wright

For the past 33 years, I have
witnessed the self—esteeming, the moral,
social and spiritual values of too many of
Oakland’s students deteriorate to an all
time low level. The low academic
achievement of Oakland students is a
disgrace.

Since 1964, I have witnessed this
district having so much money until they
did not know how to spend it. They spent
it on guns, cars, boats and vacations.
They even had people on the payroll who
were not employed by the district and even
some who did not exist.

In spite of all that money, as many as
75% of our students were achieving below
the 5Oth percentile in reading and math.

I have watched this district opeate a
dual educational system by using the
special federal and state money to supplant
the district efforts which characterize some
of our schools as EDY schools, where
mostly Black students attend, where their
norm or standards of achievement are
measured from 0 to 50%, while other
Oakland schools located in the hill areas
norm or standards of achievement are
measured from mastery or 100% to partial
mastery or 75%. As a result of this
district’s dual system of education and the
illegal tracking of Black students, in the
graduating class of 1985-86 school year,
there were only 18 of the graduating Black
students who qualified under the
University of California’s A through F
requirements. Of the 26,000 students
suspended in school year 1985-86, 86%
were Black. Of the 4,497 secondary
students suspended in the 1986-87 school
year from September 2, 1986 to January
20, 1987, 3, 851 are Black.

With these facts, it does not take a
genius to see that racism is alive and well
in Oakland schools. But, to add insult to
injury, the top 39% of all high school
graduates in the school year 1985-86 only
averaged 68% in math and 62% in English
skills. This is evidence that all of our
students — white, Black and all the rest
— need our help.

My concerns are to end illegal
tracking of students, to return to whole
class instruction, to minimize

suspensions, to maintain our facilities
both at the schools and elsewhere and to
bargain fairly and in a timely manner with
all of our employee groups.

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A PRELIMINARY LOOK AT PLANNING AND
ZONING ISSUES CURRENTLY FACING THE
ROCKRIDGE COMMUNITY

by Barbara Anderson, RCPC Chair

Recently, the RCPC Board of Directors looked back on the
many issues and concerns which have occupied the organization
during the past several years. The following is a summary of
the Board S discussion and possible avenues for future study. It
also will serve as a point of departure as RCPC moves forward
in the process leading to a Rockridge Area Specific Area Plan.
Please come to the General Membership meeting March 18,
1987, at 7:30 PM, to participate in further discussion about the

planning issues and priorities currently facing the Rockridge
community.

1. TRAFFIC/CIRCULATION/PARKING

The residential streets near the BART station and College
Avenue business areas are crowded day and night with on-street
parking. Residents can't park in front of their own homes and
merchants complain that their customers can’t park
conveniently. Heavy AM/PM traffic, Highway 24 on/off
traffic, one-way streets around the BART station, and increased
business activity on College Avenue result in traffic
congestion, circulation problems and dangerous intersections.

ISSUES

Residential Permit Parking Plan implementation
and its impact

-Parking Zones: metered and posted signs (varying
time limits)

-Off-street parking requirements (C-31), especially for
conversions, new construction, proximity-to-BART
discount

«Impact of Street-sweeping restrictions on parking

«Impact of “casual carpoolers” parking

«Off-street parking facilities (Art Stone, BART 2nd
Deck, etc.)

«Intersections: Claremont/College; Shafter/College;
Manila/Hudson

«School Crossings: Chabot; Shafter/Keith; Miles, etc.

«BART station one-way street circulation: Forest,
Shafter, Keith

«Bike path; Shopper’s Shuttle

«Highway 24 on/off ramps confusion; signage
«Other peak congestion periods
2. LAND USE POLICIES AND IMPLEMENTATION

College Avenue is experiencing a loss of long-time, small
merchants and neighborhood-serving businesses. In place of
these, there is an increase of eating and drinking establishments,
and retail stores with a regional appeal. Escalating land values
have boosted the cost of buying a house and housing rents.
Commercial rents on College Avenue have increased
dramatically, too, sometimes twice or three times higher in the
past few years. Residential property adjacent to the C-31 Zone
has been degraded, lost to, or threatened with conversion to
commercial use. There is a serious lack of green areas and no
community park or significant public sitting area within the
central Rockridge area.

ISSUES

«Demolition procedures

«Public noticing procedures

«Review of use permit criteria

«Limitation of food sales activities , particularly
restaurants

«Conservation of a balance or mix of uses along
College Avenue including public or community uses

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«Procedure to “sunset” non-conforming and illegal
uses (e.g., billboards,manufacturing activities)

*Survey of types of businesses generating tax
revenues on College Avenue

* Density .
-Use of developer assessment fees to provide

parking, trees, open space amenities
3. BUFFERING

New construction along College Avenue is much larger in
height, bulk and density than adjacent residential property. The
transition between R-35 and C-31 often is merely a six-foot
wooden fence and a few yard-high plantings. Use Permit criteria
are open to various interpretations and judgments, and the
conditions of approval often are not sufficient to preserve quiet
enjoyment of residential property.

ISSUES

«Minimum side- and rear-yards

Preservation of light and air in side- and rear-yards
«Landscaping

¢Scale, height transition

«Exterior lighting, maintenance

«Acoustics, noise, odors, air quality

eSight-lines, privacy

«Overall height limits

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4. DESIGN REVIEW

Currently, new construction on College Avenue (which
requires Design Review) can be approved without going throu gh
the public hearing process. Design Guidelines are needed for the
College Avenue business district in order to retain and enhance
the distinctive character of its continuous fagade of pedestrian-
oriented store frontage .

ISSUES

«Public Notice: should require notice and public
hearing for all new construction proposals
eDesign Guidelines for College Avenue Commercial
District and Adjacent Residential Areas:
Building Design Elements
Streetscape elements
Open Space
Signage: coverage, projection, illumination
Relationship to existing large facilities
Historic/Cultural resources

Homework & Parent Survival

All Neighbors are invited to attend the next

Parent Education Night at Chabot School on

Wednesday, April 1, 1987, from 7:30 to 9 PM in

the School Auditorium. Mr. Sam Piha,

M.S.W., will speak on how parents can support
their children with their homework.

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RCPC/CAMA Committee
Tours Art Stone Site

After a breakfast graciously hosted by Créme de la Créme
owner/chef and Parking Committee member David Nugent,
members of the RCPC/CAMA Joint Committee for the Art
Stone Project met for a site visit of the Art Stone property.

The Committee continued its discussion about appropriate
uses for this property in addition to an off-street parking
facility. Project Consultant Steve Costa asked committee
members to respond to the following questions after touring the
site:

1. What strikes you most about the attractiveness and
locational attributes of the Art Stone property?

2. What opportunities for different uses do you feel exist at
the site?

3. What uses are most appropriate for the site?

4. What uses are not appropriate for the site?

5. What design features do you think are essential to assure
that development on the site not adversely impact the adjoining
property and neighborhood?

Neighbors and merchants are also asked to think about the
above questions.

Please direct your responses or other comments about any
aspect of site planning or project design for the Art Stone
property to Committee Chair Marc Beyeler (464-4172) or
Project Consultant Steve Costa (763-8447).

Be A Part Of The Rockridge Research

Neighborhood residents with a knowledge of the
area are invited to volunteer some time to help
with the U.C. Urban Design Seminar research.
They will show you how you can help.

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the volunteer spirit typical of Rockridge,
Neighbors gathered early Friday afternoon to set up chairs and
tables on the gym floor, decorate the walls with yellow and
pink balloons, streamers, place table coverings and help arrange

the foods. |
While the celebrants enjoyed the feast, RCPC Chair

Barbara Anderson spoke on behalf of the Board to emphasize the
importance of the voluntecr network to the gains of the
Neighborhood: “Thank you Block Captains. Your contnbution
r to our Neighborhood.”
a nis. Anderson ihe presented Bobbie Kinkead, who has
devoted time to organizing and maintaining the distribution
network, red Tiger Lilies for her garden. Kirby Kinkead and
Daniel Harris received trophies for their newsletter distribution
work, and Don Kinkead received a basket of MacIntoshes for his

work on the News.

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