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Vol. 2 No. 9 Issue No. 21

January 16, 1988

Circulation: 4,500 Residences; 200 Businesses

Updates, Notes, Reports

Oakland Budget A Topic
For General Meeting

The projected City deficit of $12-17 million and attendant
proposed cuts in City services are slated for discussion at the
RCPC General Meeting set for Wednesday, January 20, 7:30
pm at the College Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Councilmember Marge Gibson—Haskell and other City
representaives will be on hand to discuss the City’s financial
future. Come hear the facts and the options and let them know
how you feel.

RCPC Board Election

Membership of the RCPC Board of Directors for the coming
year will be determined by Neighborhood voters at the General
Meeting to be held Wednesday, January 20, 7:30 pm, at the
College Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Voters will cast their ballots for a total of ten Board members
from candidates selected by the nominating committee. Voters
must be at least 18 years of age and will be asked to verify their
residence in the Rockridge Area as defined in the By-Laws of the
Rockridge Community Planning Council.

Current nominees are:

Ms. Barbara Anderson
Mr. Marc Beyeler

Ms. Nancy Dutcher
Mr. Glen Jarvis

Mr. John Gussman
Mr. Don Kinkead
Ms. Brooke Levin
Mr. Kerry O’Banion
Mr. Ray Perman
Nominations may be entered until declared closed by the

Chair prior to the time of the vote at the General Meeting. Names
may be submitted by mail or in person to the following Nomi-
nating Committee members: Mr. Ray Craun (655-6589), Ms.
Karen Paulsell (655-0818) and Ms. Ethel Ruymaker (658-3912).
Nominations should include the addresses of the nominee and of
the nominator. Send your nominations to:

RCPC Board Nominations c/o RCPC

5856 College Avenue #130 Oakland, CA 94618.

Please tun to “Updates, Notes’’, page 3

Message Of Cheer
For The New Year

A Look Back As We Move Forward

by Barbara B. Anderson, Chair
Rockridge Community Planning Council

Looking back at 1987, it's hard to believe that so much was
attempted... so much was achieved. The ranks of RCPC 's
block captain network swelled to 125 volunteers; The Rock-
ridge News now publishes eight pages of neighborhood and
planning news; RCPC is actively involved in the planning of
our greater community as part of the North Oakland Commu-
nity Development Committee; one of our Board Directors is
now a member of the Mayor's Economic Development Advi-
sory Committee. Perhaps as you peruse the following high-
lights, you'll agree that...

1987: Ir Was A Very Goop YEar!

For THE ROCKRIDGE News

- The newsletter sponsored by RCPC received a Journalism
Award from the Northern California Section of the American
Planning Association for Outstanding Coverage of Commu-
nity Planning Issues by a newspaper with a circulation below
100,000.

For CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT

¢ In response to citizen protest, the Steet-Sweeping program in
Rockridge was amended and can now be tailored to citizens’
needs on a block—by—block basis.

¢ Rockridge Neighbors also rallied to the cause of the Branch Li-
brary and helped to assure its continued presence on College
Avenue.

¢ The City expanded the Public Noticing procedure to reach
residents within a 300 ft radius shortly after RCPC and other
Neighborhood groups made specific recommendations for
change.

Please tum to “Message”’, page 3

Dates Calendar Events Calendar Dates

7:30 pm
7:30 pm

City Council Meeting
RCPC General Meeting

¢ Tuesday Jan 19
«Wednesday Jan 20

«Thursday Jan2I1 4:30 pm_ Police Department Meeting
* Tuesday Jan 26 7:30 pm City Council Meeting
«Wednesday Jan27 1:30 pm

Planning Commission Meeting City Hall, Room 115. Regular meeting.

City Hall.

College Avenue Presbyterian Church. Annual election of
RCPC Board of Directors; City Council Tax Plans.
Chief’s Conference Room, 455 7th Street.

City Hall.

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By Andrea V. Gabriel

A Brief History of Public Transit in Oakland, Part

Part II of a two-part article. Some of the information for this
article was taken from an unpublished manuscript by Francis X.
Flood in the Oakland History Room of the Oakland Public Library.

! thank Rockridge resident Julie Dewey for additional research
material.

Rockridge Routes
As electric streetcars and trains became commonplace, a
complex system of routes was established throughout Oakland's

neighborhoods. As Beth Bagwell notes in Oakland, The Story Of

a City, “Out of this cheerful muddle of horsecar lines, opumis-
tic entrepreneurs in the late 1870s and 1880s laid out patterns of
neighborhood development, traffic arteries and commercial strips
that are still with us today.” Fred Reed, who developed much of
Upper Rockridge for the Laymance Realty Company, purchased
a bus to run along Broadway to bring prospective buyers to build-
ing sites. (He is said to be the first person in Oakland to collect
bus fares.)

The  Sacra-
mento Northern
established one of
the main routes
through Rock-
ridge, running a
train from
Oakland to Sacra-
mento that con-
nected Oakland to
remote communi-
ties on the other
side of the hills.
From the main
station at 40th and
Shafter, the train
ran up Shafter
Avenue to Broadway, around Lake Temescal and into Montclair.
Nevertheless, the convenience of nearby public transportation
failed to endear neighbors who had to live with tracks running
through their neighborhood. “The running of both passenger
trains and freight on Shafter Avenue’s single track quickly
aroused the enmity of the street’s residents, an attitude which
persisted up to and including the last day of operation, February
28, 1957.” (Paul C. Trimble, /nterurban Railways Of the Bay
Area.) When the railway wanted to put a car barn near a branch
station located near Shafter and College, alarmed neighbors
banded together and quickly quelled the idea.

Other Oakland Lines

The Key System ran other lines in Oakland. The E Line ran
from Key Pier to 55th Street, then up Claremont to the station at
Claremont and Domingo. The K Line ran along Alcatraz and
College. Rockridge resident Julie Dewey remembers taking the
train to San Francisco as a young girl. “We'd catch the train at
Hudson and Claremont,” she relates. “You had to step up real
high to get into the train. The seats were hard straw—rattan—
and the train was very noisy. We would go down 5Sth Street to
the Oakland Mole to catch the Ferry. It was a great adventure
when you were small.”

TR a Fa DO PO BONO

A horse car on Telegraph Avenue, transportation predecessor to electric streetcars and trains.
(This photograph also pictures the front of the Cattaneo Block, a building built in 1 871-2 and
now the home of G & G Hardware.) (Photo: Oakland History Room, Oakland Public Library)

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Decline Of The Key System and
The Rise Of AC Transit and BART po
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changed drastically, producing a “domino effect” among interur 2 ey 3
ban travel systems. Ferry lines ceased as the Sacramento North. 4
ern, Southern Pacific’s Interurban Electric Railway, and the Key .
System provided access by rails via the lower deck of the Bay)
Bridge. In 1941, the Key System became the sole trans—Bay 4
carrier when the others stopped running trains over the Bridge, |
In 1941, removal of streetcar tracks began when those routes
were taken over by the Key System’s bus fleets. (The Key
System started bus operations in 1935.) In 1948 streetcars were —
discontinued. Trains continued to run across the Bay Bridge unti] po
1958 when the operation was discontinued. ae
Key System buses provided public transit for the East Bay but | a
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studying transportation trends and development and created the
Bay Area Rapid Transit District. Construction began in 196210
join communities in Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco — “a
Counties by a seventy—one mile rapid rail transit system. It was
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It is difficult today to ever believe that Rockridge was farm —
area and that the gentle rolling hills to the East were bare. Itis

hard to imagine College Avenue as a dirt road. Be

When we look at the rise of cities and their communities, We
can see that commercial and residential districts always have de- ~
veloped in conjunction with major transportation routes.

Students of transportation point out that— once established-
travel routes tend to remain unchanged, regardless of the vehicle »
of transport. As Beth Bagwell notes, “The routes of AC Trar sit :
and those of BART follow very closely the routes used at the tum ~
of the century by the Key Route and the Southern Pacific, which ~
in many cases had first been laid out even earlier for horse ~
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The Rockridge News

Page 3

“Message’’, from page 1

* Oak Grove Avenue residents became the first in Oakland to
take advantage of the Residential Preferential Parking Pro-
gram.

* RCPC sponsored a well-attended Candidates Night prior to the
City Council and School Board Elections in June.

*RCPC created the Neighborhood Action Package to distribute
lo anyone interested in participating in the planning process.

FoR LAYING PLANS FOR THE FUTURE OF ROCKRIDGE

* RCPC and the College Avenue Merchants persuaded the City
to study the feasibility of a multi-use development on the Art
Stone property at College and Manila, including the construc-
tion of a new Rockridge Branch library on this site.

* Neighbors and Merchants launched the concept of the “Rock-
ridge Area Specific Plan” and got endorsement from the City
Council. University of California Graduate City Planning stu-
dents published essential research and data in the Rockridge
Report. RCPC held several community brainstorming sessions
to identify issues and opportunities for our community’s future.
RCPC developed two Grant proposals expected to be funded
in 1988 to support the Consensus-building phase of RASP.

1988 PREDICTIONS FOR ROCKRIDGE?

» As the New Year begins, on the horizon still looms the spectre
of the plans by the Dreyer’s Corporation to relocate its inter-
national headquarters to College Avenue. The EIR has been
filed with the City but it has yet to be released for public

review. The City expects to finish its review of the EIR by
the end of January.

° There’s lots of work ahead for our community as we continue
to make hard choices about solving our immediate problems of
housing availability, safety, parking and circulation, and con-
servation of resources.

- There are many challenges in the year ahead as we anticipate
our future needs in light of the many varied and sometimes op-
posing viewpoints in Our community.

ROCKRIDGE IN 1988? In 1990? Iw 2000?

It’s up to all of us! Your participation in the community forum
is essential. Join with us in the coming year and help make RCPC
even more effective!

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Suggested minimum; $10 per category

“Updates, Notes”, from pagel
Neighbors To Meet With Police Brass

Mr. Sam Lazar, Rockridge resident, Planning Commission
member, and Chairman of the Oakland Citizen’s Crime Preven-
tion Committee has arranged a meeting between police represen-
tatives and concerned citizens and Neighbors of the Rockridge
Area to discuss police response to thefts and break-ins.

The meeting— set for 4:30 pm Thursday, January 21, 1988,
in the Chief’s Conference Room, 8th Floor of the Oakland Police
Department, 455 7th Street— will bring Beat Officer David
Donovan, the Sergeant-In—Charge for Rockridge, and Vice
Squad representatives together with Neighbors for a frank exami-
nation of Rockridge crime control.

For more information call Mr. Lazar at 655-4700, Ms. Sam
Bieksza at 652-1765, Ms. Connie Kidder at 652-3080 or Ms.

Dolores Bishop at 652-4526.

Wilson Associates Propose New

College Avenue Building

Wilson Associates, builders of the Market Hall and Alta Bates
Showcase buildings, have bought the “cement boat” lot on
College Avenue near Hudson and propose to build a one-story
commercial building with three storefronts on the site.

According to Mr. Anthony Wilson, a principal of the com-
pany, the 2,900 square foot building will be designed with a
“front that is traditional” and will be primarily retail in its use.
Construction is scheduled for the Spring.

A part of the process involves design review by City and
RCPC representatives prior to final plan approval.

Preview: Treasurer’s Report

Thank you for your generosity, kind words and support this
past year.

Mr. Don Kinkead, RCPC Treasurer, reported to the Board that
a steady (if only occasionally tremulous) stream of donations
from friends, Neighbors and other supporters during the year
helped meet the administrative costs of the organization and the
production costs of The Rockridge News. Advertisements in the
newsletter provided additional production funds and helped ac-
quaint readers with College Avenue area merchants and their
wares, as well.

A fuller statement of monies received and spent will appear
in next month’s News.

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The Rockridge News

January 16, 1988

The Business of Rockridge

College Avenue merchants, business people and property own-
ers present their views in this column based on wide-ranging inter-
views. Interviewees were asked to comment on College Avenue,
Rockridge, community communication, and the role of the City.
They reviewed and approved these remarks prior to publication.

@ Kevin Brown

Owner, Better Homes Realty

5353 College Avenue

Born and raised in Oakland, Mr. Brown has lived in Berkeley for the
past seven years. His family has had a real estate business in Oakland
for over twenty-five years. He worked six years with his father in the
office at Telegraph and 63rd. Three years ago, the Browns decided to
move from their Telegraph Avenue location to their current College

Avenue address. Mr. Brown is Vice President of the College Avenue
Merchant's Association (CAMA).

College Avenue is a street of diverse businesses affected dif-
ferently by different forces. Problems associated with this diver-
sity include parking and noise.

Parking and Zoning

We need to look to zoning regulations to deal with the need
for additional parking that new commercial development creates.
Enforcing or changing zoning regulations dealing with parking
is a planning decision that will have to be made by the City. In
the meantime, it would be nice to see BART add parking space
to ease the pressure on the upper part of College Avenue.

Restaurants are a part of the business diversity on College
Avenue that some people see as a problem. Many residents in
the area seem con-
cerned about the
number of restaurants
and the possibility of
“Regional Business”
moving into the area.
I don’t think anyone
wants to see a fran-
chise operation such
as a McDonald’s

move onto College Avenue, it would destroy the character of the
neighborhood. With chain operations aside, I feel market
demand will make the ultimate decision on the number or restau-
rants and their usage.

College Avenue Development

Many changes will occur with future development on the
Avenue. Some developers feel RCPC has been unfair in the past
and is opposed to development; I feel the City and the neighbor-
hood should not make it as difficult for developers to complete
their projects. Generally, City support for College Avenue has
been good, and Marge Gibson-Haskell has helped a lot. Some-
times, though, developments need a variance from zoning to be
built. I think the context of a development should determine the
attitude toward variance requests. We need to look at each
request on its own merits. For example, zoning limitations
should affect big developments to protect the integrity of the area
by keeping it less industrial.

Generally, I am pleased with the development and the quality

Planning Will Help

Maintain College
Avenue Quality

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of construction to date on the Avenue, but planning ahead is im-
portant to maintain the quality.
Planning and the Future

The Rockridge Area Specific Plan [RASP] can be a useful
tool in dealing with current problems and shaping College
Avenue’s future. It should provide input from merchants and
developers as well as the community. I-don’t know how much
the City can help. It is my impression they currently lack the
resourcesfor this particular project and are relying on the neigh-

borhood and business community for help.
In the past, many merchants felt that they were not included

in the planning process, but over the past year, there appears to
have been a change. I think it’s a good idea for CAMA and
RCPC to work together on issues that mutually affect our
community.

For the future, I would like to see small neighborhood busi-
nesses stay on College Avenue, much as they are now. I think
sole or individual proprietorships like this add character to an

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“January 16, 1988

Chabot School Parents Want
Solutions To Dangerous Traffic

Inadequate traffic controls, increasing traffic volume, and a
recent series of near misses at key intersections near Chabot
school — even after one child was struck by a car— have
prompted a subcommittee of the Chabot School PTA to seek City
assistance to monitor traffic flow and determine the best way to
protect schoolchildren.

According to members of the subcommittee, there are three
main problem areas:

1. The intersection of Patton and Chabot Road.— This is pres-
ently an all-way stop with school-trained student crossing guards
during peak school traffic times. The committee feels this inter-
section is too busy, particularly during the morming commute
hours, for present traffic controls.

2. The intersection at Miles and Patton.— There is a crosswalk
across Miles at the very mouth of the freeway on-ramp with no
additional protection from traffic coming up Patton from Chabot
and tuming onto the on-ramp. Drivers coming around the curve
have little tume to react to any pedestrians in the crosswalk. “A
booby trap for drivers and pedestrians”.

3. The intersection of Broadway and Keith— More a part of
the freeway system than part of the City street system, committee
members assert. This gives rise to dangerous driving attitudes
which, coupled with inadequate traffic controls, creates an ex-
tremely hazardous situation. PTA members say this location,
particularly the east crosswalk on Keith Street, has been the site
of several scary incidents over the past few months, including one
child struck by a car this year, achild on a bicycle struck last year,
and several near misses witnessed by parents.

The PTA subcommittee proposes adult crossing guards and
other protective measures for these intersections. Your sugges-
tions to the school, parents, the City and to Cal Trans to help
prevent a tragedy are encouraged!

To help, call Mr. John Geltmeyer at 655-0434.

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If The World Beats A Path

To Your Driveway...

By Ray G. Perman

Locating on-street parking in the Rockridge is becoming
more and more difficult; many drivers find themselves pressured
to parallel park in spaces too short to accommodate their vehicle.
Such optimistic parking frequently results in blocked driveways
that are difficult or impossible to navigate.

According to Officer Don Foster of the Oakland Police De-
partment Traffic Division, the California Vehicle Code, Section
22500-E, prohibits the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle
in a public or private driveway.

The driveway area that must be kept clear extends from where
the top of the curb first dips toward the pavement to the point at
the other side of the driveway where the curb regains its normal
height. Although it is a parking courtesy to leave extra clearance
next to a driveway, the practice is not required by law.

If someone’s car blocks the required clear area of your drive-
way, you may call the OPD at 273-3481 to have the vehicle cited.
Officer Foster added that as long as you are able to maneuver
your car around the offending vehicle, the department cannot
tow.

OPD will respond to your complaint as soon as is practical.
The responding officer will issue a citation to the offending
vehicle and make a reasonable effort to locate the driver. If no
driver is found, the officer may order the vehicle towed. Accord-
ing to Officer Foster, the procedure usually takes between an hour
and a half to two hours after the complaint is received. The name
of the complainant will be listed on the police report.

Although an officer may legally issue a citation to any vehicle
blocking a driveway at any time — even your own! — depart-
ment policy is to respond only to complaints from driveway
users/owners.

Because the width of most Oakland driveways is barely
adequate to accommodate today’s vehicles, the City Office of
Public Works offers a program called “Driveway Tipping”. For
a fee of $46.15, a City crew will paint a three foot length of curb
(longer, if deemed necessary) on each side of your driveway with
the famous “no parking” red paint. Any vehicle parked along the
red “tip” may be cited — courtesy becomes law.

Phone the Office of Public Works at 273-3466 to arrange this
service, but make your call soon — this program is threatened by
the City’s projected deficit.

Do not be tempted to paint driveway “tips” on your own: the
police will only cite cars parked in officially “tipped” driveway

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January 16, 1988

Of General Interest:

A New Year,
An Unpleasant Task
by Marge Gibson—Haskell

The start of the calendar New Year reminds us that it is
only six months until the commencement of the next fiscal
year. It is the time when the people of the City, through their
elected representatives, must make the agonizing dollar
decisions which define our quality of life in Oakland.

This past year we barely maintained ourselves by taking
advantage of one-time revenue sources, but we nevertheless
suffered substantial budget blows. Some of these made the
news — headlines proclaimed that Alameda County will
receive reduced revenues to fight drugs next year, which will
impact our police vice units. Some didn’t make the news.
No one took note of the County of Alameda Solid Waste
Management Committee decision ending cash payments to
the City derived from the San Francisco garbage stream
flowing into Altamont. Many major sources of funds such
as state bailout funds and Federal revenue sharing also were
phased out.

Prior to the passage of Proposition 13, property taxes
provided 70% of general fund revenues. Today they provide
less than 30%. As has been detailed above, we have lost the
offsetting funds that were provided by other sources. The
net effect of all changes, when matched with the desire to
maintain current service levels, is a projected deficit of at
least $12 million.

We will, as we have since the passage of Proposition 13
ten years ago, make such cuts as we can find that will not
impair service delivery. But this year these won’t produce
a balanced budget! Much more revenue is needed, or, far
greater cuts will have to be made.

At the Rockridge Community Planning Council meeting
of January 20, [7:30 pm, College Avenue Presbyterian
Church] City staff and I will detail alternatives. We will
outline what a cut of $12 million will do to the City’s budget
and what potential revenue increase options are available.

None of these will be pleasant, but as a community, we
are being given choices. If you wish to question, consider

and recommend, please come to that meeting.

RCPC and The Rockridge News present this column to assist
regular communication from local officials. Give some thought

to what you read here, then give a Call:
Marge Gibson-Haskell — 273-3266
City Council District 1

Rockridge Avenue/Inman & Doty

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Tech Students Visit Washington, D.C.

Twenty-five students from Oakland Technical High School
participated in the Closeup Foundation one-week excursion to
Washington, D.C. during the week of December 7-12.

The students spent the week exploring U.S. domestic policies
and politics and relating their experiences to what they have
learned in their government and U.S. history classes.

Rockridge Soccer Club
Plans Annual Meeting

The Rockridge Soccer Club will hold its annual meeting
Monday, February 8, 1988, 7:30 pm at Chabot Elementary
School Auditorium.

The Club will adopt By—Laws and elect new Officers for
988-89. Call Mr. Bruce Friend at 658-1803 for additional
information.

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Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder and leader of the
five-woman a capella singing group Sweet Honey in the Rock,
will present her concert-lecture of Black American traditional
song at Saint Albert’s Priory on Monday evening, January 25th
at 7:30 pm.

Director of the Smithsonian’s Black American Culture Pro-
gram, Ms. Reagon presented a similar concert-lecture at the
Oakland Museum in July 1987 as part of the Smithsonian
Institution’s traveling exhibits. Her dual role as
musician—-historian developed from singing in the choir at her
father’s Baptist church and her subsequent studies at Spelman
College in Atlanta.

Because of limited seating, reservations are suggested at $5
per ticket (pre-paid). Tickets at the door are $8.

Call Father George Matanic, 654-5725 for tickets or further
information.

Private Retreats Available At St. Albert’s

Saint Albert’s Priory is making a number of rooms available
throughout the year on weekdays and weekends for private re-
treats for men.

Retreatants set the pace and tone of their own retreat, blend-
ing their own time for quiet, rest and prayer, and are invited to
join the community of friars for prayers and daily Eucharist. A
spiritual director or confessor is available upon request.

To schedule a retreat date or for further information, contact
Father George Matanic at the Priory or call 654-5725.

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pm Wednesday, January 27th. A free—will offering will be taken.

This theatre company has won acclaim not only from church
audiences throughout England and Europe, but also from many
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