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RCPC Has a Busy April: Town Hall + Elections

Future of College
Avenue Retail
Examined by April
Town Hall Panel
Challenges: Internet
Sales; Vacancies;
Business Concentrations
Panel members John Chalik, left, Stuart Flashman, Susan Bernosky,
Kiera Williams, John Knight, and moderator Kevin Faughnan.
by Kevin Faughnan, RCPC
April’s RCPC Town Hall topic
– the Future of Retail on
College Avenue – was held with
community and panel members
assembled in the sanctuary of
the College Avenue Presbyterian
Church. Next year is the 100th
anniversary of this Julia Morgan
treasure. Although the enduring
landmark church is showing its
Bike to Work Day
Bay Area Bike Share
Expanding to Oakland
Details: Page 4
➧➧Into the Future, page 12

April Elections Build Board Membership; Room for More

Pictured at left are current members
of the Rockridge Community
Planning Council (RCPC) board
of directors. Back row from left are
Kevin Faughnan, Ronnie Spitzer,
Leonora Sea, and M C Haug. Front
row, from left, are Rekha Rao, Mike
Lin, Stuart Flashman and Noah Rosen.
Inset photo is of Laura Schlichtmann,
traveling at the time the group was
photographed.
New board members Haug and
Rao were elected to the board by
community members voting during
the April Town Hall meeting, while
incumbents Schlichtmann and Sea
were reelected. Lin, Spitzer, Rosen
and Faughnan were not up for election.
As stipulated in the board’s
by-laws, members met the first
week-end following the election
to count ballots and elect officers.
Chair Stuart Flashman, Vice Chair
Kevin Faughnan, and Treasurer
Ronnie Spitzer were reelected to their
positions. Rekha Rao was elected
secretary.
The recent resignations of
boardmembers Brendan Havener-
Daughton and Greg Pasquali leave
the board with four vacancies it can
fill by appointment. Find out more
about working with the RCPC board
of directors. E-mail chair@rockridge.
org with a statement of your interest
and experience; you will be contacted.

Coming: June Town Hall; Note it now, for June 9 (Pg 5)
Annual Joint Meeting: NCPC-RCPC
On Thursday, June 9, RCPC and NCPC will hold
their annual joint meeting. The topic this year is
Public and Private Safety, presented by special guests to be
confirmed later, and a seismic safety website demonstration.
Details are evolving. Visit the NCPC (Neighborhood Crime

Prevention Council) website at http://rockridgencpc.com/ and
RCPC’s (The Rockridge Community Planning Council) website
at rockridge.org for evolving detail. The program will also be
announced in the June issue of The Rockridge News, but the
meeting date is close to the newsletter’s distribution schedule.


May 7, 2016
2.

Change is Good: Lately, There’s
Plenty to Go Around in Rockridge
ROCKRIDGE BRANCH LIBRARY
                  5366 College Avenue
                   at Manila | 597-5017
Library program details/hours: Calendar, page 15
Rockridge Changes:
BofA Branch at Shops at the
Ridge: Closing.
CCA: Moving to SF
Barclay’s Pub: Closing, to be
replaced by a restaurant.
The Hut: Closing, to be replaced
by a restaurant.
The Rockridge News, founded March 1986 by
Don Kinkead, is published monthly in Oakland
and is sponsored by the Rockridge Community
Planning Council (RCPC), a nonprofit public
benefit organization founded to: preserve and
enhance the unique character of the Rockridge
neighborhood; promote the health, safety and
quality of life of its residents; furnish a forum for
community involvement; and provide leadership and
representation of neighborhood interests.
Rockridge News Production
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Ronnie Spitzer	��������������������Treasurer
M C Haug, Don Kinkead,
Mike Lin, Noah Rosen
Laura Schlichtmann, Leonora Sea
Contact the board: chair@rockridge.org
For information: info@rockridge.org
Newsletter Subscriptions
Beyond that, two of its buildings have
“historic” designations: Macky House,
which houses the President’s Office and
administration; and the Carriage House,
used for drawing and painting classes. Both
were built around 1875. In addition, the
landscaping, designed by Meyer, includes
landmark trees.
The two-campus school plans to
consol id at e
on a single
San Francisco
c a m p u s
spanning the
neighborhoods
of Dogpatch,
Potrero Hill and
the Mission,
CCA President
Stephen Beal
said in a press
release.
 There they
will house all
programs and
“are devising
h o u s i n g
strategies for
students and
faculty. Our
goal is to have
approximately
1,000 beds on
or near the San Francisco campus by 2025,”
Beal wrote. Two housing units are projected
to open before 2020.
“The future of our Oakland campus
continues to be a top priority,” he said. “We
CCA to Shift Operations to
San Francisco
by Judith Doner Berne
The rumors you’ve been hearing are true:
California College of the Arts (CCA),
with campuses in Oakland and San Francisco,
has plans to vacate its Oakland campus at the
south end of College Avenue over the next
five years.
The historic
R o c k r i d g e
campus, which
w a s  f u l l y
established in
1926 by arts
a n d  c r a f t s
m o v e m e n t
l e a d e r
F r e d e r i c k
Meyer, is home
to first-year
students who
take classes
and live on
campus and to
undergraduates
majoring in
subjects such
as animation,
glass, jewelry/
met a l a r ts,
photography,
printmaking, sculpture and textiles.
Indeed, CCA’s website describes it as
“Four beautifully landscaped acres in the
charming Rockridge district…located
just two miles south of the University of
California at Berkeley.”
To subscribe to The Rockridge News, send
your check for $20, payable to Rockridge News
Subscriptions, to: Rockridge News Subscriptions at
the address below.
“The Treadwell Mansion, Entrance to the Estate.
March 1928.” Founders of California College of the
Arts (CCA), first established as the California College
of Arts and Crafts, CCAC, bought the four-acre James
Treadwell estate at Broadway and College Avenue in
Oakland in 1922. Students, faculty, alumni, and the
founding Meyer family all pitched in to transform
the dilapidated buildings and grounds into a college
campus. Meyer, a skilled horticulturist, did the
landscaping, and some of his work is still in evidence
today.                (Adapted from information on the school’s website.)
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Publication date of the June issue is:
  June 4, 2016
  June deadline is May 19.
Advertising rates are $26/column inch. Six-
month pre-pay rate available. For display ads,
call Jo Ellis at 653-3210 (after noon), or e-mail
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to refuse any display or classified ad that it deems
inappropriate. (Classified ad contact, page 14.)
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May 7, 2016

7 p.m. or later, but speaker cards are usually
called in the order submitted.)
As an urban infill project, city staff
and consultants prepared a streamlined
environmental analysis document. However,
as of April 30, that document was not
available on the city’s website. The major
environmental concerns with the project
included: parking and traffic impacts;
visual, aesthetic and shadowing impacts; and
noise impacts. According to the developer,
all impacts have been found to be either
insignificant or mitigable.
Since its review by the Commission’s
Design Review Committee, the project has
been modified to include a transportation
demand management (TDM) program. In
addition, sidewalk markings to improve
bicycle and pedestrian safety have been
added, the parking entry/exit off of Clarke
Street has been reduced from three lanes to
two, and a sidewalk bulb-out and three-way
stop sign have been proposed for the Clarke
and Redondo intersection. The city’s traffic
and parking department opposed the latter
proposal as unwarranted. Earlier project
plans and other documents are available
on the city’s website at http://records.
oaklandnet.com/request/11849. (These
documents do not appear to reflect the latest
project changes.)
Councilmember Dan Kalb has scheduled
a community meeting where the applicant
The next Land Use Committee meeting is tentatively set
for Thursday, May 26, 7:30 p.m., at 5626 Ocean View
Drive, just up from College Avenue. Check the RCPC
website at www.rockridge.org for confirmation and agenda.
low income units), which is also planned
to include a 28,000 sq.ft. grocery store and
6,000 sq.ft. of restaurant/retail space, is
tentatively scheduled for a public hearing
and potential major use permit approval
at the Planning Commission’s Wednesday,
May 18 meeting, which starts at 6 p.m. (The
specific project will likely not be heard until
Land Use Update
by Stuart Flashman, RCPC Land Use
Committee co-chair
■
■Nautilus Mixed-Use Project;
Telegraph Avenue between
51st Street and Claremont
Avenue
This 204 unit project (including 16 very

City Responds to Broadway Road Diet
Concerns Raised at April Meeting

by Victoria Eisen, city consultant,
Caldecott Projects
On Monday, April 18, Oakland city staff
and consultants held an open house
to present and receive comments on the
Broadway Road Diet, Rockridge Safe Routes
to Transit project and upcoming Rockridge
Bay Area Bike Share stations. Although the
two roadway projects have been presented
at multiple community meetings in the past,
about 50 people came to the open house,
some to voice concerns, others to find out
when the projects will be constructed.
Most of the comments received concerned
the Broadway Road Diet (Broadway Terrace
and Ocean View Drive) slated to resurface
the roadway, reconfigure the lanes from
four vehicle lanes to three (one lane in
each direction plus a center turn lane), add
high visibility crosswalks and a “HAWK”
(pedestrian-activated traffic signal) at the
Lawton/Rockridge Boulevard intersection,
and install bicycle lanes.
Public comments ranged from concern
that removing two through travel lanes
will worsen congestion to excitement
that Broadway will no longer divide the
neighborhood, allowing residents to cross
on foot without fear of being hit by a car.
Some residents wondered why bicycle lanes
are being added at the expense of motor
vehicle lanes when so few people bicycle
along the corridor, and asked whether this
decision would impede access for fire trucks
and ambulances during peak traffic periods.
In response, city staff and their consultants
made the following points:
The project was initiated in response to
long-standing neighborhood complaints about
pedestrian safety crossing Broadway and
speeding vehicles in this residential area. Its
primary goal is to make these crossings safer,
while a secondary benefit is to improve bike
safety. In other projects around Oakland, when
safe bike facilities are created, more cyclists use
them than previously biked on the roadway.
Traffic studies show that during the most
congested 15 minutes of weekday afternoons,
five intersections along Broadway will have
a minor increase in delay as a result of the
project, ranging from five to 40 seconds. At
other times there will be less or no change
in congestion.
With respect to emergency access, staff
consulted with the Fire Marshall who also
attended the open house and spoke with
concerned residents. OFD supports the
project because the center two-way turn lane
will improve emergency response during
congested periods.
The city plans to begin construction of the
Broadway Road Diet in the fall of this year.
For more information or project updates,
contact the city’s Caldecott projects
consultant, Victoria Eisen, at victoria@
eisenletunic.com or 510/525-0220.
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➧➧Land Use Update, page 15
Call for Board of Director Applicants
RCPC Wants You!
While RCPC’s April elections chose
four board of director members,
two board seats remained unfilled. Now,
boardmember Greg Pasquali is resigning
to attend to a new family member,
(congratulations, Greg!), making a total
of three seats is available. Under RCPC
bylaws, the current board appoints
members to fill vacancies.
RCPC depends on community
volunteers to represent Rockridge
residents. If you are a Rockridge resident,
have an interest in Rockridge’s future,
and have some available time, you are
invited to apply for a board seat. Find
more information on time requirements
and how to apply at www.rockridge.
org, or e-mail chair@rockridge.org. The
deadline for applications is May 31, 2016.


May 7, 2016
4.

Bay Area Bike Share Comes to Oakland
Bike sharing is a membership-based
system for short-term bicycle rental,
like car-sharing. Members can check out a
bike from a network of automated stations,
ride from station to station, and leave the
bike safely locked for someone else to use.
Stations connect users to transit, businesses
and other destinations, often providing the
“last-mile connection.”
When completed in 2018, the East Bay
will have more than 100 stations installed
by Motivate in three phases. Phase one
locations, providing 25 percent of the
expansion, were recently announced (http://

www.bayareabikeshare.com/assets/pdf/
Proposed_Oakland.pdf). Bikes should
arrive in late 2016. Rockridge Bike Share
will likely occur in Phase 2, an additional
15 percent expansion, with a station at
BART under consideration. Community
planning workshops will likely take place
this summer/fall.
View proposed Phase 1 station locations
for Oakland, Berkeley, and Emeryville:
bayareabikeshare.com/expansion. Provide
feedback online or at various libraries: http://
mtc.ca.gov/whats-happening/news/east-
bay-bike-share-takes-shape.
Bike to Work Day:
Thursday, May 12
Join the fun Thursday, May 12, for
the biggest bike day of the year when
thousands of people around the Bay Area
will ride together for Bike to Work Day, an
event to encourage cycling as a non-polluting
and healthy commute option.
In Oakland, Bike-to-Work Day is part
of the city’s strategy to promote cycling as
affordable transportation, to improve public
health, and to stop global warming. By
cycling, you can: Reduce air pollution; stay
healthy and fit; save money; and ease street
congestion.
Hank and Frank Bicycles host an
Energizer Station at the Rockridge BART
station, 7-9 a.m., with giveaways, fruit, water,
air for tires and basic repairs. Oakland City
Hall’s “energizer station” is one of the biggest
in the Bay Area, co-sponsored by the city and
WOBO (Walk Oakland Bike Oakland). Stop

by Frank Ogawa Plaza from 7-9 a.m. for a
pancake breakfast, all day valet parking, and
a free swag-filled goodie bag.
Bike Commute Tips
■
■Check out your route in advance.
■
■Ensure your bike is tuned, your helmet
fits, and wear comfortable clothing.
More information: wobo.org/bike-to-
work-day/; BikeEastBay.org/BTWD; www2.
oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/o/
EC/s/BicycleandPedestrianProgram/
OAK024651.
■
■Obey all traffic laws including stop
signs and traffic lights.
■
■Ride predictably, conspicuously and
safely.
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May 7, 2016

Planning Begins for Claremont MS Fire Damage Recovery

by The Claremont Building Committee
More than 20 community members
attended a meeting held April 21
at Claremont Middle School concerning
potential plans to improve the campus and
to replace the fire-ravaged cafeteria.
Oakland Unified School District
community engagement specialist Charles
Cole III welcomed those gathered and
thanked them for making time to be part
of the district’s community engagement
process.
Claremont building committee member
Shelly Fierston spoke about the overarching
vision for a new cafeteria to replace the
one destroyed in a 2015 fire and a new
gymnasium, as well as other improvements.
(Since the fire, students have been receiving
their meals and eating inside portables set
up in the northeast corner of the campus.)
The budget for the project is currently
$5.5 million, said Susannah Meek, the
project’s architect. Meek discussed two
possible site plan options. Plan one places
the gym in the campus’s northeast corner.
Plan two puts the gym on the north side but
with faculty parking in the northeast corner.
Separately, the school is expected to see a
new turf field installed next summer as part
of a district-wide project. That project will
happen in coordination with the building
under discussion, Meek said.
Community attendees, including several
Birch Court residents, discussed the potential
pros and cons of each plan. Among the
concerns raised were the possible impact on
Birch Court traffic – residents said the street
is often congested – and the safety of the
current drop-off point at the Miles Avenue
entrance. Two students raised the issue of
creating more open space.
The facilities committee meets again in
May to analyze, discuss, and incorporate the
feedback it received on the proposed designs
at the April meeting.
To join the committee, contact Liz
Sullivan, director of community engagement
for the school district, at liz.sullivan@ousd.
org. For project updates and more details,
visit Claremont’s website: http://www.
claremontms.org. Also see: http://www.
claremontms.org/archives/5794
Fire destroyed the Claremont Middle
School kitchen and cafeteria in mid-
February, 2015. Planning and design
for its replacement, along with other
campus construction projects, are
underway.                               /D. Kinkead

Annual NCPC-RCPC Joint Meeting: June 9

From the April Meeting Minutes:
“Calling 911” – Estella Ventura,
Communications Dispatcher
Ms. Ventura is dispatcher #72 with OPD.
She reminded the audience that when
you call 911 from a cellphone, the call goes
to the CHP dispatch center in Vallejo. If that
happens, callers may get questioned twice,
both before and after forwarding.
Questions dispatchers ask are required
and necessary; they help paint a picture
for respond in officers. You will be asked
what happened, where, when, what did the
suspects and their vehicles look like – all
of which helps Dispatch to determine the
correct response.
The Next NCPC Meeting is the annual joint meeting
with RCPC; Thursday, June 9, 7:30 p.m.
Location: To be determined. (The library is closed for repairs.)
Email the NCPC at chair@rockridgencpc.com for the meeting
location, and if you have items to add to the meeting’s agenda. Go
to http://bit.ly/1LgW9JC for the current agenda. Find minutes for the
April meeting, and others, at http://tinyurl.com/nvgrtme
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■A violent crime that just happened
is always the highest priority, she said. A
non-violent incident or a cold report is always
a lesser priority. Priority for the police and
dispatchers is always Life over Property.
■
■Dispatch can get 15 calls on a big
car accident, and they have to ask all the
questions of every caller, in case someone
saw something no one else saw.
Read the full minutes of the April
meeting at http://tinyurl.com/nvgrtme.
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6.

Eyes on Rockridge
Luckily, an extra inning loomed, thanks
to Carrie Lederer, curator of exhibitions
and programs for the Bedford Gallery at
the Lesher Center for the Arts (LCA) in
Walnut Creek.
“I approached George more than a year
and a half ago,” Lederer told me. (Full
disclosure, Lederer. like myself, is a Detroit
native and a Detroit Tigers fan.) “It was an
opportunity to work together and to build
out the show. I was interested in showing the
historic perspective.” For example, several
pieces of art represent the Negro League and
a series of vintage photographs of the early
days of women’s baseball.
When Steve Lesher of the Lesher
Foundation enthusiastically pitched in with
funding, it was game on: “Safe at Home, A
Short Survey of Baseball Art” is showing
now through June 12 at The Bedford Gallery.
Lederer and Krevsky teamed up as
co-curators. “We had one rule,” Lederer said.
“We would put all the artists on the table
and pick those who we both agreed on. We
played well together.”
“Carrie brought a dimension of quality
and contemporary art that enhanced what I
had been doing and brought it to a museum
level,” Krevsky told me. “There are almost
200 items in this show, which is vastly larger
than my space. Normally I showed 30 to 35
artworks in an exhibition.”
The 88 artists range from household
names such as Andy Warhol and LeRoy
Neiman to locally-based sports photographer
Brad Mangin and sculptor Lauren DiCioccio.
Approximately 25 percent of the pieces have
been lent by their owners and are not for sale.
Rockridge Art
Dealer Swings for
the Fences With
Baseball Exhibit
game just touches me in a certain way,”
Krevsky said.
From 1998 to 2014, he combined his love
of baseball with his love of art by assembling
annual “Art of Baseball” exhibitions at his
George Krevsky Gallery in San Francisco.
They always coincided with the opening of
each baseball season.
His initial exhibition was inspired by a
1997 Smithsonian show that featured artists
and writers on baseball…
It was advanced when it turned out that
Berkeley Repertory Theatre artistic director
Tony Tacone, then at the Eureka Theatre,
was putting on nine one-act plays the next
spring, each representing an inning of a
baseball game…
It became: “Let’s do an exhibit to go with
Tony’s production.”
The baseball shows were an easy sell.
“I have been astonished to find how many
artists share my enthusiasm and how our
exhibition appeals to both the seasoned
collector and folks who may never have been
in an art gallery before,” Krevsky said.
But in 2014, he and seven other art dealers
were forced to vacate their galleries so a dot.
com company could take over their Geary
Street building. “After 25 years, I was sure
they would give us some notice,” he told me.
“They gave us 30 days.”
Krevsky moved his business to his
Rockridge home, and the baseball exhibition
appeared to be the last batter on the losing
team, striking out to end the ninth inning.
by Judith Doner Berne
When long-time Rockridge resident
George Krevsky was growing up in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1950, Jewish
kids were not welcome to play on the city’s
Little League Baseball teams.
“So Jewish merchants sponsored ‘A
League of Our Own,’” Krevsky said, as
he showed me a 1950 team photograph in
which he and his fellow players had JWV
(for Jewish War Veterans) written across
their “away grays.”
 “I was the best Jewish first baseman since
Hank Greenberg,” he told me with a smile.
And with another, “We had some ringers – a
couple of kids from the Catholic School.”
For the young Krevsky, the vacant lot
across the street from his house “was a place
where I could play ball and feel safe at home.
“Over time,” he said, “that ‘lot’ for me
became a Little League field, then a Class ‘B’
Minor League Park, Shibe Park (later Connie
Mack Stadium) in Philadelphia, Beaver Field
at Penn State (where he was student manager
for two years for the Nittany Lions baseball
team), Yankee Stadium (while he was getting
his master’s in social work), Candlestick Park
and finally the Oakland Coliseum.”
As an adult – social worker, turned play
producer, turned art dealer – it became a
Father’s Day ritual for him and his now adult
daughter, Shani, to head to the ballpark. “The
➧➧Safe at Home, page 7

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May 7, 2016

Safe at Home
 One of George Krevsky’s favorite
pieces is this ceramic first baseman’s
mitt by Napa sculptor Richard
Newman, in part because it reminds
him of the glove he used as a youngster.
It is among the baseball-themed works
being shown in an exhibit Krevsky
co-curated at the Bedford Gallery in
Walnut Creek.            Photo/Doris Krevsky
from page 6
“What’s been wonderful,” said Lederer,
who lives in Oakland, is to see that the exhibit
has attracted an intergenerational audience
and that people are arriving in their tribal
colors. Baseball is a language we understand.
It’s part of our country’s history.”
Unlike many art openings, no one wore
black. The gallery was crowded with people
of all ages, baseball hats were standard garb,
and peanuts, Cracker Jacks and, of course, hot
dogs and beer were standard refreshments.
Although he misses his San Francisco
gallery, Krevsky said, a benefit of his move
is being able to spend more time and become
more active in Rockridge and in Oakland.
“In 1983, I came kicking and screaming
to Rockridge” because San Francisco (even
then) had become pricey. But when their
ranch-style house was destroyed in the 1991
Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire, he and his wife,
Doris Krevsky, chose to rebuild because “We
had grown to love this community.”
Now a backyard building that formerly
was Doris’ gardening shed has been
remodeled as George’s office, complete with
a baseball mezuzah on the entryway. “We call
it the art garage.” Doris, who is his CFO, and
part-time assistant Lisa Beyers, a Rockridge
If you plan to go…..
What: Safe at Home, A Short Survey
of Baseball Art.
When: Open noon to 5 p.m. Tues-
day-Sunday and 6-8 p.m. some evenings
through June 12.
Where: Bedford Gallery at the Lesher
Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Drive,
Walnut Creek.
How much: Free admission for
children 12 and under, $3 for teens 13-17,
$5 for adults.
Who: Curated by Carrie Lederer and
Rockridge resident George Krevsky.
Closing reception: 3-5 p.m. Sunday,
June 12. Includes staged reading of a one-act
play by East Bay playwright Barry Gifford
based on a 1941 friendship between author
Ernest Hemingway and two Brooklyn
Dodgers pitchers; readings by Bay Area
personalities including Bernard Malamud’s
“The Natural,” John Updike’s “Farewell
to Ted Williams,” “Moneyball” by Michael
Lewis and, of course, “Casey at the Bat.”
More info: Contact bedfordgallery.
org or 925/295-1416.
resident, both work in the house itself.
George and Doris live within a walk of
the Chabot Canyon Racquet Club, where
George has recently joined Doris on the
courts. They are regulars at Wood Tavern,
love Oliveto Café, shop regularly at Market
Hall, find Maison d’Étre a great home store,
and patronize the Rockridge Library.
The Krevskys hosted an open house for
friends and neighbors to meet Mayor Libby
Schaaf when she was running for office and
are scheduled to hold a similar gathering
for City Councilman Dan Kalb as he seeks
re-election.
Asked to pick his favorite works from the
Safe At Home exhibit, George said: “I love
the Warhol (a silkscreen print) of Pete Rose”
and Napa artist Richard Newman’s hyperreal
baseball glove sculpture.
I hadn’t planned to do this column. But
the exhibition was so exciting, I couldn’t
help myself. And I see it as a perfect field
for parents and grandparents to enjoy art
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Letters to the Editor
Temescal, the home prices of Roble Road,
or the amount of high-end shops on College
Avenue.
Please consider setting the story
straight, and stop demonizing these glorious
transportation networks.
— Peter Montgomery
The Rockridge News welcomes
posted letters and e-mails to the
editor. Your name, address, phone
number, e-mail address and city/neigh-
borhood must be included in either
for verification. Only your name will
appear with your letter. Letters may
be edited for clarity and brevity at the
editor’s discretion. Views expressed in
any letter are the writer’s own, and may
not necessarily be shared by the editor,
or by RCPC.
RCPC Chair Stuart Flashman
Responds:
Dear Mr. Montgomery:
of BART commuters and easy access to the
freeway. To think that Olivetto, Market Hall,
the new Safeway, A16, Hank and Frank, or
the many therapy offices would survive on
the business from the immediate walkable
residential catchment basin, is sheer fantasy.
Moreover, residential real estate values
in Rockridge — from Shafter, to Miles
to Broadway, to Grandview, to Acacia, to
Mystic — are greatly increased by easy
access to the freeway.
Without the freeway and BART,
Rockridge would not be what it is today.
There might be slightly less road noise
and tire rubber without the freeway, but
economically things would be far less well
off, and we’d likely not see the flowering of
The Freeway: Benefits and Denial
Editor:
I don’t think RCPC intends to demonize
the freeway or BART. It would serve no
purpose in any case: They are there now,
for better and for worse. The Rockridge
of the 1960s was, from what I’m told, a
typical local-serving retail area. It probably
wasn’t thriving, but neither was it dying.
The disruption from the demolition and
construction associated with BART and
Hwy 24 cut off College Avenue from
through traffic for several years. The result
was a predictable local economic downturn.
People who were here at the time tell me that
many local businesses failed and there were
I am concerned by the RCPC’s continued
bizarre and seemingly unnecessary narrative
about the disruptive nature of both the Grove
Shafter Freeway and the BART line.
The historical and economic perspective
that they were, or have been, bad for the
neighborhood is false and groundless.
Instead, it is largely the access to, and agency
with, the freeway and BART that have made
Claremont, Elmwood, and Rockridge the
economic and lifestyle successes that they
are today.
I fail to see the value in perpetuating
such good vs. evil narratives that only create
demons against which people can rally to feel
good about their own tribe. It is sometimes
self-satisfying to set up a David vs. Goliath
myth. Yet, in the case of the freeway and
BART, can’t we move on?
In the cover article in the April 2016 issue
of The Rockridge News, it is stated “... the
Avenue (College) from its days of shuttered
retail buildings and vacant lots left in the
wake of BART and Highway 24 construction
to today’s bustling success.” Again, this
is such odd and false mythology. College
Avenue retail, whether morning coffee or
evening Bruschetta, exists largely because
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good and bad sides. It has led to the growth
of specialty stores, and then their demise as
the Internet trade crowds them out. People
no longer want to travel miles to go shopping
when they can do it from their computer
or cell phone. Change happens: some will
be good and some bad. One should neither
demonize nor glorify what has happened: We
just need to make the best of things and seek
to have things change for the better rather
than the worse.
— Stuart Flashman, Chair, RCPC
College Avenue sidewalk next to Market Hall
will be widened, replacing existing parking
spaces. Consultant Victoria Eisen stated that
some of this new pedestrian area could be
used for seating.
The area in question is already being used
by Market Hall for business purposes: Tables
and chairs are set out on the sidewalk each
day so that people can sit while they consume
food and drink that they purchased inside.
Will the expanded sidewalk area be utilized
the same way?
There is a similar issue at the northwest
corner of Miles and College avenues, where
SR2T will remove the existing right turn
vehicle lane to create a pedestrian mini-mall.
There is a coffee shop at that corner too; will
more sidewalk tables pop up there as well?
SR2T is funded under the Caldecott
Settlement Agreement, which means it is
being paid for by the public. I don’t think
that private businesses should be subsidized
with Caldecott Settlement funds. I hope
that the newly created sidewalk areas will
be designated for public use only when the
Council approves this project.
— Jon Gabel
Letters
from page 8
indeed shuttered and boarded up storefronts.
(I’ve seen the photos.) It’s possible Rockridge
would have recovered without any RCPC. It’s
possible that if BART, the city government,
and regional groups like the Bay Area Council
had been able to carry through on their
plans, Rockridge would now be a thriving
community of 4-6 story condominium,
apartment, and office buildings, perhaps
looking a bit like Brooklyn. It’s also possible
that people wouldn’t have liked it all that
much, given that with narrow streets and
considerably taller buildings it would feel
like walking through an area of canyons.
Maybe it would have done well, or maybe
it would have done poorly. The point is, that
didn’t happen, and we have the community
we have, which seems to please people who
live here and those who want to visit.
Rockridge has gone from being a local
commercial district to an area serving a
larger East Bay community. That has had its
Bike Plan Will Worsen Traffic
Editor:
This is to express my concern about the
proposed revisions to Broadway. There must
be other solutions that would not make traffic
worse than it is. Like it or not, Broadway is a
connector to Hwy 24, already a parking lot in
the afternoons. I have often seen both lanes
on Broadway full of cars heading to Hwy
24. Maybe other parallel street(s) should be
designated for cyclists. The Keith Avenue
solution DOES NOT work. In the many times
I have driven up Keith Avenue from College,
I am yet to see one cyclist there.
Please count my voice of opposition to
the proposal and my support of efforts to
revise it.
— Danica Truchlikova
Editor’s Note:
The Rockridge News contacted city
consultant Victoria Eisen for her response
to this question. She emailed: “A business
wanting to put sidewalk seating in the
bulb-out would need to apply and pay for
an encroachment permit. This would also
obligate the business-owner to maintain the
area. This project does not include public
benches because the Rockridge District
Association does not support them.”
Norman H. Burg, DDS
General Dentistry
(510) 652-1517
5700 Broadway, Oakland
Public Caldecott Funds Subsidize
Private Commercial Use
Editor:
I attended the public meeting held on
April 18 at which city staff presented the
final plans for the Rockridge Safe Routes
to Transit (SR2T) project showing that the
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Earth Day?
Earth Day!
by Leonora Sea, chair, DMV Neighbors
I
was asked recently why I continue
to organize the DMV Neighbors
Association’s Earth Day creek cleanup (this
is my fifth year).
My first answer: because it’s fun.
Neighbors catch up with one another while
raking and weeding; volunteers from outside
Rockridge discover a welcoming community
and a special park; local merchants loyally
participate with donations to keep the
crew fed and caffeinated; DMV Neighbors
members participate as site captains and
wrap-up crew. I also love doing it because
I get to write articles like this to share my
enthusiasm for the Rockridge-Temescal
Greenbelt. I get to meet up again with all
the great people at the city who make Earth
Day and Creek-to-Bay Day go smoothly
every year. And I get to stroll through the
park later, thinking, “Wow, the volunteers
did a terrific job again this year!”
My second answer: because it’s vitally
important. The Frog Park/Greenbelt is one of
only a few public open spaces in Rockridge.
Without it, many families wouldn’t have
close-by structures to climb on, a creek
to wade and throw pebbles in, and a good

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Frog Park Thanks You for Earth Day
A
huge thank you to the approximately
100 people who came out to clean up
Little and Big Frog Parks and the Temescal
Creek for Earth Day. It was a wonderful
turnout: families with young children; Cub
Scout Pack 274; Holy Names University
students; the Rockridge Little School; and
others. It was truly beautiful to see so many
people out keeping our neighborhood park
safe and clean.
Thanks also to Bakesale Betty for
the donation of delicious scones, to the
anonymous donors who brought a huge
box of pastries and to the DMV Neighbors
Association for the coffee.
Visit frogpark.org or Facebook.com/
frogpark to see photos.
FROG Maintenance Coordinator Retires
A
special thanks goes to Howard Ferrier,
FROG’s volunteer maintenance
coordinator, who has done an incredible job
for more than 10 years and will be stepping
down after the fall maintenance day.
Future Volunteers Needed
With Howard’s departure we will need
additional volunteers to join the Frog
Park committee and help with coordinating
maintenance events. We also need help with
fundraising, communications and planning
efforts – tasks big and small, many of which
can be completed from the comfort of your
home or for just an hour here or there. Email
chair@frogpark.org to learn more about
these important and rewarding opportunities
in our community.
— Friends of the Rockridge-Temescal
Greenbelt (FROG) Volunteers
Members of Cub Scout Pack 274
turned out with rakes and shovels to
fill trash bags.
Scenic Streets
Needs Volunteers
to Remove Weeds
The weeds along the Highway 24 on- and
off-ramps and Claremont Avenue street
trees are tall and obscuring the beautiful
flowers and plants. Help us keep these areas
looking neat and attractive. You can help:
Come pull weeds and prune an hour or
two, on your own schedule or with others.
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Ayala Avenue Neighbors Enjoy Earth Day
Ayala Avenue residents turned out in
force for an Earth Day cleanup of Ayala
Park at Ayala Avenue and 57th Street.
As reported by resident Gabriel Kleinman,
“the neighborhood got a great turnout – 15-20
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group from Southern New Hampshire
University, and the many neighbors who
came out to work on the creek, greenbelt,
and Little Frog. They tackled a wide variety
of projects: moving sand into the Little Frog
sandbox; pulling ivy off trees and away from
the creek; pruning overgrown stretches of
the greenbelt along Redondo; cutting back
dead and dying tree branches; and picking
up a lot of trash.
Thank you also to Bakesale Betty for
the luscious ginger scones, to our special
neighbor who always drops off pastries,
and to the DMV Neighbors Association for
coffee from Peet’s.
Thanks especially to Park Supervisor
Lydia Swann who spent many hours ahead
of Earth Day walking the parks and the
Greenbelt to determine how her crews could
best help, who made sure sand was delivered
to Little Frog to replenish the sandbox, and
who spoke movingly to the student volunteers
about the value of their education and
participation in Earth Day.
Had fun like I did on Earth Day? Couldn’t
make it but want to do something for the
park? Join in on the third Saturday in June
at the DMV Neighbors Association interim
cleanup, and come out for Creek-to-Bay Day
in September. Good times await!
Earth Day?
Earth Day!
from page 10
location to get out of the house on “one of
those days.” But the creek and greenbelt
don’t take care of themselves, or at least not
in ways that make for a safe and attractive
space. Earth Day volunteering moves the
park a long way towards being spruced up
and ready for summer.
This year, I’d like to thank the students
from Holy Names University, the alumni
Panel member and RDA (Rockridge
District Association) chair Susan Bernosky
expressed concern that millenials might
not take their eyes off their cell phones
long enough to allow those face-to-face
interactions with business owners who
depend upon that connection to present their
services and products. Can ground level retail
really be successful with this age group? On
the other hand, can anyone doubt the success
of Cole Hardware?
Long time property owner John Chalik
with enduring tenants such as VerBrugge,
Yasai, and La Farine – all on College Avenue
for the past 25 years – cuationed not to take
success for granted. Residents must remain
engaged and vigilant, he said, or city forces
could allow development that might not fit
the desired atmosphere. He pointed out the
Safeway building as an example of improved
design resulting from changes pushed by an
active neighborhood. Chalik also pointed out
that good property owners work with their
tenants during difficult times; the answer is
not always higher rents.
The Internet has certainly made John
Knight, owner of Rockridge Furniture and
Design change his business model. From
a manufacturer of antique reproduction
furniture, a business started by his father, he
has had to evolve into being more of a service
provider. People still come into his shop to
pick out a sofa or a dining room table, but
now also ask his design team for suggestions
as to what will best complement the house
and their life style.
RCPC chair Stuart Flashman, long
involved in the organization’s Land Use
Committee, wondered if ground floor
retail was still the best model to use when
considering vacancies on the Avenue. While
RDA considers using vacancies to allow
“pop-up” stores to gain traction and then
relocate when the businesses demonstrate
success, other approaches may be needed.
We don’t want “big box” stores, he said, and
neither RCPC nor RDA feel it is proper to
be picking winners and losers as far as what
businesses should go into these vacancies.
What is needed is collective input from
all, including residents, about the types
of services wanted and needed, and then
the collective support of these businesses
through patronage.
Rockridge residents have shown their
loyalty to nearly 50 businesses on the Avenue
in business for 25 years or longer. They know
and practice “shop local.”
Into the Future
from page 1
age and needs helping hands – and dollars
– to go forward for another century, it is
likely to be a fixture well into the future.
Similarly, the five panelists considered how
our business community could also change,
grow and be successful while retaining
essential elements – such as the pedestrian-
friendly shopping environment – that draw
local residents and area shoppers to favorite
locations.
Keira Williams, Business Development
Representative for the city, pointed out that
the Rockridge business district was the
city’s most successful district in terms of tax
receipts. She cautioned merchants and the
community not to lose sight of that success
while exploring how to ensure a healthy
business climate. As an example, she cited
the multiple coffee shops and four banks
within a stone’s throw of one another on
College Avenue that could raise questions
about effective planning. In such situations,
she thought, market forces could prevail,
correcting service providers and shops that
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May 7, 2016

Go With the Flow?: Normally Sedate Creek Turns Surly

by Leonora Sea, chair, DMV Neighbors
One usually doesn’t notice how much
creek water the Temescal pumping
station moves through the supply pipe, but
less than an hour after the creek turn-on at
the end of the Earth Day cleanup, enough
water had backed up in the creek culvert that
it was lifting the 3-ft diameter manhole cover
by the path on the Big Frog side of Clifton.
Ronnie Spitzer and I noticed water
streaming out 2 to 3 inches deep and pouring
into the laundry room of the apartment
building near the path. Howard Ferrier and
Barney Smits of FROG, and Lee Patterson
of Scenic Streets built a brilliant impromptu
dam from materials generated in the cleanup,
and from improvised sandbags made from
plastic trash bags and playground sand. An
apartment building resident pointed out a
drain system on the greenbelt side of the
fence, and Ronnie and I grabbed shovels
and turning forks to partially clear it, which
helped slow the flooding of their basement.
Park Supervisor Lydia Swann, Ronnie,
and I were on our cell phones trying to contact
different city and county departments. Lydia
reached public works director Brooke
Levin, who immediately called in OFD. The
firefighters came in their ladder truck with
sandbags to divert the water into the Clifton
storm drain. OPW’s drainage department’s
evacuator truck and crew cleared the culvert
under Clifton. Finally, Keith Dooley, the
county staffer who starts up the pump for
the summer and knows the correct way to
turn it off, did so, and the water subsided.
The area looks great now. If one didn’t
know what had happened, the area only
looked well-watered and raked smooth.
Brooke was impressed by Howard,
Barney, and Lee’s quick thinking to build
the greenwaste bag dam, and by how many
neighbors turned out to help. Counting Earth
Day volunteers, neighbors, and city and
county staff, 25 people participated.
W h a t  c a u s e d  t h e  f l o o d ?
When city staff opened the manhole,
they discovered the blockage was caused
by children’s toys, either pushed through
the grate at the pond, or dropped through
the smaller manhole between Hardy and
Clifton.
Parents and caregivers need to prevent
children from putting toys through the pond
grate, and to make sure those toys aren’t
left behind.
The pump system is many years old,
originally designed in 1978. While the
equipment may not be quite that ancient, the
controls don’t even have a digital readout. A
request for a new system is in order.
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People who work here are school alumnae.
“They stuck it out when Oakland wasn’t
the place to be,” Barzin said. “And now it is
the place to be. I know the teachers aren’t
happy.”
Still, Barzin, whose father started
Greencopy, said he hopes to hold on to
the college administration’s printing and
copying, maybe by creating a satellite store
at the new campus
“Blick will probably stay,” surmised CCA
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including alternative uses and partnerships
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They have joined with Gensler, Summit
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“We are also looking into the possibility
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In preparation for the move, they have
sold their building next to Blick Art
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lease it as the Center for Art and Public Life
on the first floor and student housing above.
 The Center for Art and Public Life
“will eventually move, but at this time we
don’t know when or where,” Chris Bliss, the
school’s senior advisor for communications,
said. “Wherever it ends up, it will continue
to serve Bay Area communities.”
Avenue Apartments at the intersection
of Broadway and College was sold in
December, she said. “We are leasing back
housing there through summer 2018. There
are no plans to sell Terrace Apartments,” on
Broadway Terrace, which houses the faculty
lounge and humanities and sciences offices.
A rumor that they have sold the four
galleries used to display student art along the
south end of College is not true. According to
Jaime Austin, CCA director of exhibitions,
“We’ve always leased those spaces.” They
have extended that lease though May 2018.
The conversation at directly affected
businesses such as Blick Art Materials and
Greencopy, across Broadway from CCA,
was – as you might expect – not happy.
“We’re sad that they’re leaving,” said
Behrang Barzin, manager of Greencopy, at
5627 Broadway. “We’ve been here 31 years.
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E-mail Rockridge News Community Calendar items to: joellis1@hotmail.com, phone 653-3210 (after noon), or
mail to: Rockridge News Community Calendar, 4123 Broadway, PMB 311, Oakland, CA 94611. Deadline is the next to
the last Tuesday of the month.

Compiled by Jo Ellis

Community Calendar

Land Use Update
from page 2
will present the revised project Monday,
May 16 (the earliest available meeting date),
beginning 7 p.m. at Faith Presbyterian
Church, 430-49th Street, corner of Webster
Street. This allows only two days between
the community meeting and the Planning
Commission hearing, which seems
inadequate, especially when the final
project plans are not yet available on the
city’s website.
If you have comments on the project
or this schedule, contact project planner
Mike Rivera: phone 510/238-6417; e-mail
MRivera@oaklandnet.com.
Comments to Councilmember Kalb
may be directed to his staff person, Olga
Bolotina, at OBolotina@oaklandnet.com
or 510/238-7240.


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