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Circulation: 4,500 Residences; 200 Businesses

May 16,1987 Vol. 2 No. 2 Issue No. 14

C Sponsored by the ROCKRIDGE COMMUNITY PLANNING COUNCIL, 6225 Ross Street, Oakland CA »)

Along College Avenue

«Art Stone Property Plans Progress

Acquisition and development of the Art Stone property for

use as a Library and parking lot are proceeding. Steve
Costa of the Bay Area Partnership, Marc Beyeler of the
RCPC Parking Committee and City of Oakland Officials
have had a series of meetings to discuss details of building
design, numbers of spaces, and other logistical steps. Field
trips to libraries in other Neighborhoods are planned.
Temporary relocation sites for the library being considered
are: under the freeway on BART property at Miles and
Forest and the grounds of Claremont Middle School.

-Dreyer’s EIR Nears Completion

Dreyer’s Corporation Chief Financial Officer Paul
Woodland said the company is moving ahead with it s
headquarters expansion plans for College Avenue. They
expect to complete the Environmental Impact Report
required by the City within five weeks, then file it and
current building plans for City review. According to Mr.
Woodland, Dreyer’s wants to begin construction in about a

year and finish the building in another year.

He projected the usefulness of the factory at the College
Avenue site at five years. After that, he said, the company

will move its Northern Califomia production plant to Union
City, already the distribution headquarters for ice cream

produced at the College Avenue plant.

«Market Hall Parking Garage

Wilson Associates has dropped its plans for a two level
parking garage behind the Market Hall and will build a

surface parking lot instead.

Street Sweeping Parking Control

City Plants Poles, Makes

Neighborhood Furious

One hundred fifty angry Rockridge Neighbors met at the
April RCPC General Meeting to complain about street
sweeping parking control sign poles installed on their streets by

the City of Oakland.
The poles, placed on Cavour, Desmond, Glendale,

Coronado, James, Clifton and Lawton, are designed to hold the
signs limiting parking during street sweeping times so that the
street sweeping machines can clean effectively along the gutter
without being obstructed by parked cars. Residents at the
meeting said the poles were placed too close to driveways and

curbs, causing damage to cars, and were spaced too closely for
the distances involved, causing the streets to look crowded and

unattractive.

Al Lenzini, Deputy Director of the Office of Public Works,
stated that the poles were installed according to the usual city
guidelines for parking signs: 50 feet from the comer and at 150
foot intervals. However, Neighbors say these guidelines were
not always observed. For example, on James Avenue, there are
a total of 14 sign posts in the one block between Hudson and
Clifton. Mr. Lenzini did indicate that the City would consider
changing the guidelines for Rockridge by allowing signs at a
250 foot interval.

The City’s plans call for installation of the signs on all
streets affected by street sweeping. However, because of the
strong concerns expressed at the RCPC meeting, the City’s
street sweeping signage program in the Rockridge area is
temporarily on hold.

Vice Mayor Marge Gibson spoke with Terry Roberts,

See Signs, page 7

Vote in The City Council Runoff Election — Tuesday, May 19

Tuesday May 19 All Day « | Vote. in the Runoff Election for City Council District 1;
Incumbent Marge Gibson and challenger Cassie Lopez.
Wednesday May 20 7:30 pm RCPC May Gencral Meeting, College Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Featured Speaker: Robin Jones, Senior Planner for San Francisco, See page 4.
Planning for the RASP; Streetsweeping; See articles pages 1 and 4.

Thursday May 21 7:00 pm UC Urban Design Studio Presentations: See article page 3.
College Avenue Presbyterian Church

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May 16, 1987

SERVING OUR COMMUNITY FOR 63 YEARS:
a brief history of the Rockridge Library; Part I

by Andrea Gabriel

“That each branch has become an integral part of the
neighborhood in which it is located seems proven beyond doubt

by the steady growth in the use which is made of them by all
classes and ages of readers.”

(Isabella Frost, Reference Assistant, Oakland Public Library,
from Oakland Tribune Yearbook, 1932.)

Changing ideas, changing tastes and styles of clothing the
body and feeding the mind, a re-emergence of previous fads.
The public library in any community has always attempted to
keep abreast of current trends and offer information to those
seeking knowledge, entertainment, relaxation, or diversion. The
Rockridge branch of the Oakland Public Library has a
collection Suited to this rich and diverse collection of people.
Services for children include the ever—popular storytelling,
summer reading programs, puppet shows and special programs
coordinated with the Oakland Parks and_ Recreation
Department. There have been workshops on_ interior
decorating, writing and publishing and the “Lawyers in the
Library” series sponsored by the Alameda Bar Association.
The library is a resource for announcements about current
events, job listings, parent/child activities, free newspapers, and
flyers. People in this area are library users and depend on it, and
the library depends upon its users to define the nature and scope
of its services.

With the recent purchase of the building that houses our
local branch at 5701 College Avenue, the residents of our
community and the staff of the Oakland Public Library Systems
are wondering what will happened on June 30 when the current
lease expires. To remain where it is, it has been reported that
the library would have to pay about ten times the current rent.

This latest crisis facing one of the most essential public
services will no doubt force a well—overdue assessment of
library services to Rockridge. “Well-overdue” seems terribly
understated and inaccurate. The fact is that the library has
served residents of this area out of the same building since
1924, and while in those 63 years businesses have expanded,
commercial and residential buildings were demolished and
erected, public transportation has been developed and traffic
re-routed, the space serving an ever-expanding public has
remained the same.

But residents and community leaders decrying the need for
adequate library services isn’t new to this or any other
neighborhood. In fact as early as I9Il, there is evidence that
Rockridge residents demanded services from a reluctant city
government.

In 1913, a letter from the newly-formed Vernon-Rockridge
Improvement Club--“an organization which fosters the spirit of
local and city improvements”--was sent to Head Librarian

Charles Greene:

In the new Vernon-Rockridge School there is a room
fitted up for a library. Our club would like to have a
branch library installed there and would ask that you make
such arrangements. We have been working toward a
library for some time...

Greene assured the Club that money for this request would
be included in the budget to the Oakland City Council, but in a
letter to Mr. W. J. Loveland of Keith Avenue in 1914, Greene
declares that while the Board of Library Directors has budgeted
$3,000 for a Rockridge branch for the past three years, “each
year the estimate has been cut by the Council so much that no

ranches were possible.”

 Eiveduatly a Rockridge branch of the Oakland Free Library
was established in 1919 at 5715 Shafter Avenue. The physical
size and conditions of the building are unknown, but within a
few years it proved inadequate for library users. By early 1924,
community groups formally asked for “the establishment of an
adequate branch in this district.” When citizens felt they were
being ignored by the Board, they expressed their desires in more
graphic terms. A letter from the College Avenue Commercial
Club admonishes the Board for failing to replace the
“inadequate rathole which you have persistently forced the
citizens of this district to endure.”

Before the year was out, Rockridge Library users got their
new quarters at 5701 College Avenue. In 1925, Oakland
resident Chauncey Gibson gave the branch $2,500 which
bought about 1,200 books.

The library served the growing community through the
1920’s and 1930’s, responsive to community needs and
interests. Among new fiction titles available at the Rockridge
branch, listed in the “Claremont Press” (Spring, 1929) were
Woolf’s Orlando, Wilde’s The Picture of Doran Gray and
Wells’ War _of the Worlds. Non-fiction titles included the
Untold Story of Isadora Duncan, Hows and Whys of Human

Behavior, All Around the Mediterranean, Fall of the Russian
Empire, and Aircraft Yearbook, 1929. The Rockridge Woman's

Club that same summer sponsored a program whereby members
relived deeds of Abraham Lincoln, based on Carl Sandburg’s
Abraham Lincoln. Circulation figures during the 1930's reveal
that in most months Rockridge was one of the busiest branches,
second only to Dimond.

In November 1932, a fire brought “improvements” to the
library. In her report to Lucie Nye, Chief Librarian for
Branches, Emma Davies, Rockridge branch librarian notes:

The month began with a near fire, and as a
consequence thereof we have a new window-pane, a new
showcase, two new signs and a new back entrance
including a screen door. I really feel much safer with

another exit. One day this month I counted 30 children in
the room at noon time.

Next month...

A look at some of the monthly reports by Davies reveals the
way that community businesses and world events shaped

people's reading habits in the 1940’s; and, the Rockridge
Branch is expanded.

(Material for this article was researched from the historical files at

the Oakland H istory Room, Oakland Public Library. Thanks to K.G.
Ouye for additional investigation )

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A Special Presentation of
the Report of the Rockridge Urban Planning Studio
The study of the Rockridge Neighborhood undertaken by the University of California Urban Design Studio is drawing to
Thursday, May 21, at 7 p.m. in the Lighthouse Room of the College Avenue Presbyterian Church, the students will

present their reports on the present concerns and future possibilities for Rockridge — College Avenue.
Preliminary abstracts of the reports are summarized below. The full and final reports will be presented in the

following program:
I. Introduction and Overview ( Prof. Elizabeth Deakin)
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The Rockridge Area II. Land Uses: College Avenue/Rockridge
Planning Issues III. Parking and Transportation
Objectives of the Studio 3
Organization of this Report IV. Findings and Recommendations for Further Study (Class)

« Copies of all the Rockridge Urban Planning Studio Reports will be bound and kept for public reference at the

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Land Uses: College Avenue/Rockridge

The Economics of Land Use in Rockridge
Alan Treffeisen

A March 1986 article in Oakland’s Tribune asked the
question, “Will success spoil Rockridge?” After
weathering a period of boarded-up shops and population
decline, the neighborhood has rebounded strongly in the
1980s. Based in part on conversations with merchants and

of a commercial area to keep viewers interested:
transparency, transition spaces, and number of entrances.
Other characteristics such as trees, street furniture, signs,
and setbacks enhance interesting |§ commercial

environments.
The report discusses the effect and use of these

characteristics on College Avenue.

preliminary results of a survey of College Avenue Travel Characteristics of The Rockridge Commercial

businesses, the study seeks to document the changing __ District
economic conditions in the area, and explain why they are Marilyn Kuntemeyer

occurring. In addition, the study discusses the goals that
residents, merchants and city officials have for the area,
and what policies could be used to steer the neighborhood
in desired directions.

The paper presents census data and further data from
the County Assessor’s office to document changes in real
estate conditions in the area between 1970 and 1980.

The paper concludes with a discussion of alternatives
for Rockridge, taking into account the concerns of
residents, merchants, and the City of Oakland.

College Avenue — Architectural Typology
Juan Martin Carvajal

Commercial success on College Avenue in recent years
has led to increases in traffic and shortages of parking
spaces, a combination in conflict with residential areas of
the Rockridge community.

Planning officials, Rockridge residents and merchants
are unsure of the travel patterns of Rockridge customers
and employees.

This paper summarizes elements of weekday and
weekend travel by type of business. Recommendations are
made for utilizing this information to analyze future
Rockridge Area development proposals.

Legal Issues in Use Restrictions

Buildings and facades and their uses along College Karen Tiedemann

Avenue in the Rockridge area are examined in this study to
develop suggestions about how future development and
change should take into consideration certain features of
existing architectural forms and patterns.

The study reports on research of historically significant
buildings along College Avenue and examines existing and
disappearing businesses. Newer buildings are rated
according to the degree to which they contribute to an
interesting and varied environment.along College Avenue.

Three main characteristics should be present along most

Use restrictions set limits on the number and type of
businesses that can operate in a commercial district. This
paper analyzes two legal issues that might be raised when
use restrictions are applied: violation of antitrust laws and
improper taking of private property by a local government.

Careful drafting of a restrictive ordinance can clarify its
application and provide flexibility in its use.

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Zoning Control for Neighborhood Shopping Districts
Kristina Elmstrom

Neighborhood commercial strips require special
attenion from planners. The displacement of
neighborhood serving businesses, the proliferation of
certain uses, the loss of rental housing units, the existence
of incompatible uses, and inadequate buffering of
commercial uses from adjoining residential development
can present problems for the neighborhood.

Zoning regulations can lessen or prevent these
problems. Both San Francisco and Berkeley have placed
new zoning regulations on neighborhood commercial areas.
This study reviews actual examples from these neighboring
Bay Area cities to illustrate for the Rockridge
neighborhood what is possible and what has been done.

Zoning control for neighborhood shopping districts is
analyzed from three perspectives: neighborhood, City, and
public policy.

Parking and Transportation

Rockridge Area: On-Street Parking and Circulation
Analysis
Arul Kumar

Parking and traffic circulation on College Avenue,
between Claremont and Broadway, are studied in this
analysis.

Traffic conditions are discussed in terms of turning
movements at key intersections and traffic control
measures such as traffic signal timing plans.

Parking space occupancy, turn—over, and duration of
use are evaluated by a license plate survey of 121 parking
spaces between Claremont and Miles and between Shafter

and Keith.

Residential Permit Parking in the Rockridge Commercial
District
Andrew Swords

Rockridge area residents are concerned about excessive
nonresidential parking on residential streets, and have been
discussing Residential Permit Parking as a partial solution
to this problem. Parking problems on the residential streets
are often caused by employees and customers of College
Avenue shops. Particular areas of Rockridge, however, are
affected by other parking generators in their immediate
area. For example, the College/Claremont area is affected
by casual carpoolers, the side streets from Oak Grove
through to Ocean View are heavily affected by BART
parkers, and the College/Broadway area is impacted by
students at the California College of Arts and Crafts.

This study examines in detail the parking characteristics
of those streets and looks at the potential effectiveness of a
Residential Permit Parking program in affecting parking

problems.
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Rockridge District Transit Service Evaluation
A. Nash

This paper presents a case study of an analysis of transit
service to an area of Oakland which is undergoing rapid
gentrification. The area is mostly residential with strip
development on its major street. A methodology is

developed for analysis of transit service in this type of area
and then used to evaluate service in the Rockridge district.

It was found that the Rockridge district was extremely
well served by transit. Frequent service to many different
locations available, a large percentage of area residents use
transit ot get to work, and the demographic characteristics
of transit passengers who nde transit in the area
corresponds with characteristics of residents in the area.

The most significant problems were caused by
transit—related facilities such as the BART parking lot

spillover and low quality urban design in the BART
station/freeway area.

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Rockridge Area
Specific Plan

Strong Response to Call For Volunteers

A large part of the work to draw up and establish the
Rockridge Areea Specific Plan (RASP) will be
accomplished by volunteer effort from people who know the
Neighborhood best -- those who live here. Last month's
Rockridge News provided a form for interested persons to
complete and return to indicate the type of contribution they
wish to make.

Response has been tremendous! Architects, Planners,
typists, researchers and others have shown their willingness
to help design the future of Rockridge. Your help is needed,
too. Take a moment to fill out and return the form on the
next page. Tomorrow is on its way!

San Francisco Planner To Share Grassroots
Planning Experiences

San Francisco Senior Planner Robin Jones will be the
featured guest speaker at the RCPC May General Meeting.
Ms. Jones is Chief of Conservation and Development
Programs.

Her most recent accomplishment is the newly—adopted
San Francisco Neighborhood Commercial Rezoning
proposal. This new zoning provides San Francisco’s more
than 200 neighborhood shopping districts with guidelines
and controls to conserve neighborhood character and
economic vitality.

Ms. Jones will share her experiences of the last ten years
working with residents and neighborhood merchants. She
will focus on the local planning process and how all
community interests can come together to participate in
planning for the future of our cities.

Oakland City Planning Director Alvin James also has
been invited to attend the meeting.

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participate in the preparation of the Rockridge Area Specific Plan in the following
ways:

I can offer my professional skills as a:
(e.g., planner, architect, designer, graphic artist, grant—writer, historian,
environmentalist, draftsman, computer programmer, lawyer, economist,
accountant, bookkeeper, engineer)

My profession is:

|_} I can offer my organizational skills:
(e.g., facilitating meetings, publicity, typing, notetaking, document—keeping,
telephoning, computer—input, photocopying, library research,
photographing, other?)
My skills are:

|_] I want to sign up for the following committee(s):

_y Design/Streetscape

__} Land Use

[_} Circulation/Parking

_y Existing Large Sites/Facilities
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reSsOuUrces:
Name Phone
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Please bring this survey to the RCPC General Meeting Wednesday, May 20,
7:3() P.M. at the College Avenue Presbyterian Church, or mail it to:

Rockridge Community Planning Council
6225 Ross Street
Oakland, California 94618

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Of General Interest:

This column makes its début in what will be a regular space
dedicated to statements, comments and reactions from public
officials. Sheila Jordan, newly elected School Board Member

for District 1 is our leadoff contributor.

Sheila Jordan: “Thank you, School District 1 voters;
this is just the beginning!”

I want to thank RCPC and the Rockridge News for offering
me this opportunity to thank my neighbors for all of their
support during my campaign. My victory is a strong statement
that parents and teachers want a change in the Oakland public
school system. And while I am extremely grateful for the
hundreds of volunteers who worked to elect me, I hope that my
election is just the beginning of the real campaign: the

campaign to give Oakland’s children the public school system
they need and deserve.

The strongest schools are those in which teachers, parents,
principals and students work together to establish goals and
directions for the school. The desire of parents at Chabot
Elementary School to be directly involved in principal selection
IS a positive example of parent involvement. It is also an
opportunity for the school district to develop a working
relationship with parents and teachers that will directly benefit
the school. To help facilitate communication between the
school board and the community, I also plan to meet with every
principal, parent group and faculty in the District.

Even with the best of intentions on everyone’s part, the

Oakland school district will still be facing a huge deficit as a
result of the anticipated state education budget. Parents are
actively organizing at each school to write letters to the
governor urging him to support a higher level of state funding
for education. I strongly encourage you to get involved by

contacting your school’s parent group or PTA.

To celebrate this new spirit of community involvement in
education, I am hosting a potluck picnic (we'll provide the
hotdogs and drinks) at Lake Temescal on Sunday, May 31. It

will be a family event, complete with games for the kids. Come
prepared to play volleyball or softball or just to talk and eat.

Please write or call me with any suggestions you may have.
I can be reached by either phone or mail at my house: 5832
Ocean View Drive, Oakland, CA 94618, or 652-7823. I can
be reached most easily between 8-10 pm. Beginning next
school year, I will have regular daytime office hours on

Thursday and Friday.

A Highrise In Rockridge?
On The Need For Planning

Highrises?

No, not likely... but we, the residents of Rockridge, need to
come together to participate in planning for our future. We are
faced with many ongoing problems such as traffic congestion, a
lack of parking space in the commercial areas, overflow parking
into our residential areas, no parks for our children, lack of park
benches and other street furniture in the commercial area, and

and other support areas I have checked off:

Suggested minimum; $10 per category

much much more. The worst part is, we don’t even have
adequate noticing laws in the City of Oakland to notify us of
proposed projects in our Neighborhood. We have to act now!
Please help to make Rockridge a more livable environment.

Plan to attend the May 20 RCPC General Meeting at the
College Avenue Presbyterian Church, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Your insight is badly needed in order to guide the planning for
the Rockridge Neighborhood. This plan will belong to us, the
Neighborhood.

Get involved now or it could be too late.

— Brooke Levin

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Director of Public Works, and was assured no further Signs or
poles will be placed in the Rockridge Neighborhood until
residents have had a chance to express their concerns to the
City. Ms. Gibson was also told that a block could be dropped
from the sweeping program if at least 80% of the residents on
that block agreed they did not want to participate.

The map below shows the area of Rockridge where the poles
were placed. Neighbors have begun an effort to organize the
areas identified on the map. Petitions will be circulated on a
block by block basis to determine the percentage of residents in
each block requesting exclusion from the program. Once that is
completed, the petitions will be submitted to the City, with a
request for City Council action amending the signing program
ordinance. The next likely area for installation of the poles is
West of the freeway and East of Claremont Avenue to the
Berkeley line. This area includes streets such as Chabot Road,
Aubum, Forest, Oak Grove, etc.

If you are able to assist with the petitions in the areas
mapped below or in other areas of Rockridge, please call
Brooke Levin at 653-7522 or Donna Goldman at 653-0132.

Mr. Lenzini, representing the City of Oakland Public Works
Department, will be present at the May 20 RCPC Gencral
Meeting.

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New CAMA Officers Elected

The College Avenue Merchants’ Association changed
leadership in regular elections held by the organization,
according to Bill Chung, past-President. Eddie Zeidan,
proprietor of Chimes Grocery, is President-elect, and Kevin
Brown of Better Homes Realty and Alan Mac of Stanley Smith
Insurance, are new co-Vice Presidents. The new officers will
take office in July.

Mr. Zeidan offered this statement about himself and his
official goals to readers of the Rockridge News:

I am a longtime resident and merchant of Rockndge. In
1965, Chimes Grocery was purchased by my parents. I took

over in late 1981.
I have been active in CAMA since 1981: on the Board of

Directors, as Chair of the Sidewalk Sale Committee, and in
1986~7 as Vice President.

I have enjoyed being a part of the revitalization of
Rockridge. We now have one of the finest neighborhoods
anywhere.

I see tremendous potential for the area as long as change is
controlled by a logical plan that preserves the character of the
avenue, and meets the needs of neighbors and merchants.

My goal for CAMA is to improve the business climate in
Rockridge by:

Increasing membership and participation in CAMA;

Increasing CAMA’s activity in the City planning, zoning
and legislative arenas;

Working closely with RCPC to address issues of local
concern, such as the development of a sensible specific plan that
benefits both the businesses and the neighborhood;

Increasing off—street parking in Rockridge;

Promoting Rockridge through special events, press releases,
advertising.

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