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VOL 38   •   NO. 7   •   ISSUE  NO. 388   •   JULY 3, 2021                      CIRCULATION: 5,800 Residences; 200 Businesses

Push Back, or Have
We Lost Enough?
— by Annette Floystrup,
RCPC Board Member
This is the second article in a series focusing on the
history of the RCPC.
When the Grove-Shafter freeway
opened in 1970, Rockridge
neighbors began to organize to restore
and revitalize the neighborhood they
saw as “devastated” by six long years
of construction disruption. What was
it that pushed Rockridge neighbors to
organize and formulate new plans for
the neighborhood in the early ’70s?
For that, we must examine how the
freeway came to Rockridge and go
back in time more than a few decades
to see what was lost.
Historian William Rorabaugh, in
his book Berkeley at War, describes a
Berkeley radically different from the
Berkeley we know today. Conserva-
tive and professional elites ran the
city. As an example, Berkeley voters
rejected every single bond measure
aimed at funding schools except one
between 1924 and 1959, and it wasn’t
until the mid-’60s that the combined
effects of school desegregation,
campus unrest, and rising radical-
ization caused them to move out and
This 1967 aerial photo shows the
excavation for the Grove-Shafter
freeway and the impact it had on the
Rockridge neighborhood.
Russ Reed, untitled, 1967.
Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches.
The Oakland Tribune Collection,
the Oakland Museum of California,
gift of ANG Newspapers.  
©The Oakland Museum of California
liberals to begin moving in.
Those Berkeley conservatives had
political clout on the state level. While
they were very pleased when Ashby
Avenue was designated a part of the
State highway system in 1935, they did
not welcome California Department
of Transportation plans to build a
RCPC History, see page 14

RCPC & NCPC
Joint Town Hall Meeting
— by Robin McDonnell, Vice Chair RCPC, and
Karen Ivy, Secretary Greater Rockridge NCPC
The Rockridge Community
Planning Council and the
Greater Rockridge Neighborhood
Crime Prevention Council will
hold their annual joint Town Hall
this year on Thursday, August 19,
at 7pm. In light of this year’s pre-
dicted fire season and the constant
danger of earthquakes, the Oak-
land Firesafe Council will present
an hour-long workshop on disaster
preparedness. The NCPC will also
have the Community Resource
Officers for beats 12Y and 13X
present current crime statistics.
Oakland Firesafe Council will
describe their Oakland Community
Preparedness & Response program,
and recommended procedures
for preparing for, surviving, and
recovering from disasters. They
may also discuss their two-way
radio communication program for
use if cell service is unavailable.
Contact info@rockridge.org for
more information. We hope to hold
the meeting in person, but, if not,
pre-registration will be required to
receive the Zoom link. n

RCPC Clifton Hall Fundraiser Surpasses Goal

$2,135. As promised in our original
announcement of the fundraiser,
RCPC will be contributing another
$600 toward the welcome gift.
At the request of Satellite Affordable
Housing Associates (SAHA), the
nonprofit which will provide property
and case management services to the
residents, the donated funds will be
used to outfit the two shared kitchens
as well as provide each resident with
— by Casey Farmer, RCPC Secretary
The Rockridge Community
Planning Council (RCPC) led
and completed a successful fund-
raising effort to purchase kitchen
supplies for our new neighbors at
Clifton Hall. Formerly a dormitory for
students attending California College
of the Arts, the building was pur-
chased under the State of California’s
Homekey grant program, and is being
converted into affordable housing for
families and seniors. New residents
will be moving in this summer.
Thanks to our generous community,
our original fundraising goal was
surpassed. In total, 34 donors raised
Fundraiser, see page 2


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Fundraiser, from front page
a set of dishes for their individual
rooms (SAHA is equipping each room
with a microwave).
Grand Lake ACE Hardware will
be providing the items at cost and
contributing an additional $500 gift.
As a result of their generosity (and
our above-goal fundraising), we will
be able to purchase additional useful
items for the two kitchens: coffee
pots, mixing bowls, spatulas, pots,
pans, cutting boards, dish towels, and
toasters. Special shout-out to Store
Manager Shaun Braga for facilitating
this large contribution and for being
great to work with in procuring all of
the items needed.
“We are deeply grateful to RCPC
and the donors for being so generous
to our new residents here at Clifton
Hall,” said Leigh Ann Brenneke,
Regional Services Director at SAHA.
“This is a very warm welcome from
the entire neighborhood.”
In addition to the donation from
RCPC, Upper Broadway Advocates,
which distributed 20 gift bags to the
temporary families this past January,
has prepared gift bags with small
useful items for the tenants for when
they arrive later this summer. n

Thank You, Donors!
Grand Lake ACE Hardware
Rockridge Community Planning Council
Danielle Bluey
Molly Brostrom
Stephen Coles
Bridget Collins
Melodie Davis
Andrea Dooley
Patty Giuntoli
Roberta Heintz
Joanne Karchmer
Christine Kinavey
Aarti Kohli
Sherry Larsen-Beville
Matt Levy
Monica Marcone
Melissa Mednick
Thomas Merritt
Jenny Michaelson
Edwin Oyarzo
Lauren Ryan
Katrina Saba
Melissa Shoen
Lorelei Sontag
Evan Weissman
Michaela Wood
*Note, this is a partial list as many donors
asked to remain anonymous.

The Rockridge News was founded March 1986 by
Don Kinkead, and is published monthly (except
August).  It 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
Anna L. Marks ........................ Editor & Layout Artist
Jo Ellis........................Assistant Editor & Ad Manager
Susan Montauk................................Business Manager
Judith Doner Berne................................... Staff Writer
RCPC Board of Directors, 2021-22
Leonora Sea..........................................................Chair
Robin McDonnell..................................... Vice-Chair
Casey Farmer................................................ Secretary
Ashley Pandya.............................. Assistant Secretary
Ronnie Spitzer...............................................Treasurer
Matt Levy......................................Assistant Treasurer
Michelle Boyd, Stuart Flashman, Annette Floystrup,
David Garcia, Kirk Peterson, Ken Rich
Contact the board: chair@rockridge.org
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New Rockridge Branch Library Hours & OPL
Summer Reading Program
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every Saturday at 10:30am including
Zoom dance parties. Please register
in advance.
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other countries, please ask at your
local library for more information
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he Oakland Public Library (OPL)
has expanded service at all 18
locations as of Tuesday, June 15,
2021, to match the hours that were
in effect before the Covid pandemic
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People of all ages can participate in
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children up to 14-years-old, there will
be a book prize and a raffle for every
person who reads over the summer.
Come and enjoy crafts, science exper-
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4pm on Zoom; and online programs
Rockridge Library New Hours:
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Rockridge Community Planning
Council —
Land Use Committee Update
The next Land Use Committee meeting
will be held on July 21, at 7:30pm, via
Zoom. The meeting is open to the public.
Please check Rockridge.org or the RCPC
Facebook page the week before for details.
Send an email to landuse@rockridge.org
or call (510) 652-5373 to receive a web
link or phone number to attend.
RCPC Land Use
Committee Update:
July 2021
— by Stuart Flashman,
RCPC Land Use Committee Chair
The Land Use Committee held its June
meeting on June 21 via Zoom without a
quorum.
Rockridge Housing Study
The subcommittee working on
affordability incentives was not pres-
ent. No report.

Soup Night restarted on the 5300 block of Boyd Avenue when
neighbors got together on June 6 at the home of Candy Vernetti
(a Rockridge News delivery volunteer) to share food and reconnect
after many months of isolation. The block plans to continue getting
together the first Sunday of every month.

Fur and Florals: Art Show at Rockridge Café

Fur and Florals; Comfort during
Quarantine is a series of pastel and
acrylic paintings by artist Rachel
Perls. “People turned to pets and gar-
dens for comfort, a sense of stability,
and happiness. This series is in appre-
ciation for the fur babies and florals
that enrich our lives.”
A Rockridge resident for 12 years,
Perls art will be on display 7/21
through 9/1 at the Rockridge Café,
5492 College Avenue. n
Current Housing Legislation Affecting
Rockridge
An article appears on page 6 of this
issue of The Rockridge News sketching
out three bills with the potential to
affect Rockridge. It appears all three
may be heading towards passage.
Due to lack of a quorum, the
remainder of the Land Use Com-
mittee meeting was spent discussing
land use-related questions, including
the cost of housing in Rockridge,
availability of housing sites, and what
might help to make new housing more
feasible. (A Video of the meeting will be
posted on RCPC’s YouTube channel.) n


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Safeway Settlement
Funds — UPDATE
— by Matt Levy,
          RCPC Board Member
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RCPC
Affordable Housing
Requires Subsidies
Affordable Housing,
Or Market Rate?
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Ken Rich’s article in the June, 2021
Rockridge News, “Housing in
Rockridge: Affordable Only or Market
Rate Too?” promotes “trickle-down”
housing theory. Building more mar-
ket-rate housing does not produce
more affordable housing. Studies show
that it can result in gentrification and
higher rents in existing buildings (see
my website www.PreserveRockridge.
com and click on “Who Benefits?”).
The example cited by Mr. Rich,
The Logan at 51st and Telegraph, has
17 “affordable” units out of a total of
204 (8 percent). Those 17 units are for
families earning less than 50 percent
of the Area Median Income, which is
a rather high figure to be considered
truly affordable. Also, comparing
rental costs at The Logan to Rock-
ridge mortgage costs is comparing
apples to oranges. Rents and home
purchase prices have historically been
lower in Temescal than in Rockridge.
Mr. Rich ran for the RCPC Board
on a slate of four candidates who were
endorsed by Mayor Libby Schaaf, State
Senator Nancy Skinner, and Assem-
blywoman Buffy Wicks. Those three
officials received large campaign con-
tributions from real estate interests,
and, unsurprisingly, all three support
bills such as the failed SB50, which
would have overridden R-1 zoning
statewide — including in Rockridge.
RCPC is a 501c(3) nonprofit corpo-
ration, which is prohibited under law
from engaging in political activity.
Does it bother anyone else besides
me that board elections for our small
neighborhood organization are now
being subjected to influence by the
same officials who want Rockridge
up-zoned for development?
any thanks for the informative
affordable housing article by
Annette Floystrup (The Question of
Affordable Housing, May 2021). We
think she makes a good case for the
need for public and/or private subsi-
dies to build truly affordable housing.
In a previous Rockridge News, we’d
read the article on building and
financing an Accessory Dwelling
Unit (ADU). The article stated that
the approximate cost of $185,000 of
the ADU could be financed for about
$800/month, but the homeowner
could expect to get much more in
rent — 2k to 3k is a good guess.
The May 2021 issue of the
right-leaning Apartment Owners
Association News also has a piece
promoting ADUs which considers the
“never ending stream of additional
income and permanent increase in
overall value of property,” not to men-
tion the likely exemption from rent
control. We’ve often wondered how
this additional housing might help
house some of the people living in
Frog Park and in tents along the Hwy.
24 freeway exit ad infinitum.
Ms Floystrup’s article makes clear it
won’t.
n early April, RCPC sent Safeway/
Albertsons a letter telling them how
we wish to use the $400,000 settle-
ment fee to calm traffic along streets
just west of the market. We recently
received a formal response essentially
denying our request, claiming that no
traffic impacts would have occured
if Safeway had been allowed to add a
left-turn lane and arrow at the Col-
lege/Alcatraz intersection.
Albertson’s argument makes no
sense as our original request (posted
on Rockridge.org with Albertsons’
response) explained how the new store
brought a 50 percent increase in traf-
fic in both directions along Hillegass
between Claremont and the Berkeley
border. There was also increased
traffic on Alcatraz west of College.
Clearly, this increased traffic is due to
cars going to and from the new Safe-
way, which would be unaffected by a
left turn lane and light.
RCPC’s board of directors will be
meeting in early July to discuss a
strategy, per our settlement agree-
ment, and submit our request to
Oakland’s Planning and Zoning
Director who has the authority to
override Safeway’s objections and
approve the project. n
Alfred Crofts and Robert Brokl
Jon Gabel,
former RCPC Board Member
The opinions represented in the Letters to the Editor
do not necessarily reflect the views of the Rockridge
News, the Rockridge Community Planning Council,
or the RCPC Board of Directors.


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In Memoriam
late into the night, going shopping
at the old Payless shopping center on
Broadway, and driving our friends to
the swimming pool in the back of the
’89 Volvo station wagon. Our mom
loved a competitive tennis match with
her teammates at the Oakland Hills
Tennis Club, a good game of mahjong,
her morning latte, and rooting for the
Warriors.
She gave so much to her family and
friends and greatly appreciated being
part of the Rockridge community.
In the words of our dad, “Jean is an
amazingly kind person, partner, and
mother that we will miss dearly.”
Mom passed on May 6, 2021, after
battling pancreatic cancer. To cele-
brate her life, we request that anyone
who wishes to leave comments or
support causes our mom believed in,
please visit our tribute page at https://
tinyurl.com/jeanchung.

Jean Chung
— by Jenny Chung Mejia

& Kevin Chung
Our mom was a dynamo. As a
first-generation immigrant to
the United States, she along with
our dad went on to pioneer a vibrant
restaurant scene on College Avenue as
co-owner of Rockridge Cafe for nearly
50 years. She learned and navigated
American systems with grit and grace
to support our family.
She never expected to call Oakland
home. After growing up in Indone-
sia and graduating from school in
Taiwan, she wanted to travel and visit
her nine siblings around the world.
However, a chance encounter with
our dad led to a permanent move to
the Bay Area in 1978.
Mom spoke little English when
she arrived, often describing how
unfamiliar and foreign everything
felt and wondering how to provide
the best opportunities for us, her
children. However, as she met wel-
coming neighbors, customers, parents
at Chabot Elementary and East Bay
Chinese School, and the broader
Rockridge community, Oakland
became home.
Jean and Bill ran the Rockridge Cafe
together for over 40 years.
In the early days, our parents
rented a home on Manila Ave where
they’d walk to work and serve up
warm breakfasts to customers at the
Rockridge Cafe during the day, and
fresh pizzas in the evenings at Pizzeria
Guglielmo. Some of her favorite mem-
ories were being pregnant and tossing
pizza dough at Pizzeria Guglielmo

We love you, mom! n


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Housing Bills That
Might Affect Rockridge
• SB9 [Atkins/Wiener/Wicks]
Trumpeted by both supporters and
opponents as ending single-family
zoning throughout California, this
is a complicated bill. SB9 requires
municipalities to approve a lot-split
(i.e., making one lot into two) for any
parcel currently zoned for one single-
family house, and also to allow two
units (i.e., a duplex) on any lot zoned
for single-family housing. In essence,
it would allow, by right, four housing
units where two (one home and one
ADU) were previously allowed. While
the bill appears to exempt hazardous
or environmentally sensitive areas
(e.g., high fire risk, high earthquake
risk, or wetlands), it would still apply.
Many pro-housing groups and the
cities of Oakland and San Diego sup-
port the bill. Many other cities, local
community groups, and the League
of California Cities oppose the bill as
interfering with local control of land
use. It could also be problematic for
emergency evacuation in areas with
narrow streets, like the Oakland/
Berkeley Hills.
• SB10 [Wiener/Atkins/Skinner]
Unlike SB9, this bill is permissive
rather than mandatory. It also has now
been limited to apply only through
2029. It would let any
municipality adopt zoning allowing
up to ten housing units per parcel if
the area involved is either urban infill
or in a “transit-rich” area – i.e., within
a half-mile of a major transit stop or
along a “high quality” bus route (e.g.,
AC Transit 51A or B line). The bill
could apply to almost anywhere in
Oakland, including all of Rockridge.
The bill exempts any such rezoning
from environmental review under
CEQA and overrides any local law
restricting zoning (e.g., permanently
designating an area as open space),
including local initiatives. Once the
zoning has been enacted, projects
to construct more than ten housing
units (not including ADUs) would still
require CEQA review. Smaller projects
would not. It also has an “anti-back-
sliding” provision; the rezoning, once
enacted, could not later be undone.
SB10 is supported by many pro-
housing groups (it was put forward
by California YIMBY) including the
California League of Women Voters,
and the City of Oakland. It is opposed
by numerous cities, local neighborhood
groups, and the Sierra Club.
SB9 and SB10 both passed in the
Assembly Housing Committee.
• AB1401 [Friedman/Wiener/Skin-
ner] This bill more directly concerns
off-street parking requirements than
housing. However, providing off-street
parking, especially in a parking struc-
ture, is a major cost for new housing,
as well as other types of developments.
This bill would prohibit placing any
off-street parking requirement on a
new development located within a
transit-rich area (same definition as
in SB10). It would continue to allow
off-street parking requirements for
electric vehicles or the disabled. Sig-
nificantly, the bill has no exception for
high-fire hazard areas, meaning no
off-street parking could be required in
new projects in those parts of Upper
Rockridge within a half-mile of the
Rockridge BART. It would apply to
almost all of Lower Rockridge. Like the
other two bills, AB1401 is supported by
many pro-housing groups and opposed
by some local neighborhood groups
including the League of California
Cities. AB1401 will be heard by the
Senate Governance & Finance and
Housing Committees, and is likely to
pass both (Sen. Wiener is on both, and
Sen. Skinner is on housing.)
For more about these bills, go to:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/. n
— by Stu Flashman, RCPC Board Member
As has been true in recent legisla-
tive sessions, the Legislature
began this year with a stack of bills
to change State housing policy — this
in response to California’s much-re-
ported housing crisis, but that crisis
is complicated. There’s no question
that California has fallen far short on
building enough affordable housing,
but there’s disagreement even within
the RCPC Board over whether Oak-
land is meeting its state-mandated
goals for market-rate housing (more
on that in a future article). At any rate,
most people agree that affordability is
important.
Many of the bills have already died
— either withdrawn by the authors,
voted down in committee, or failing
to pass out of their house of origin
(Assembly or Senate) by the deadline
of early June. The remainder moved
on into the other house and will be
considered in committee over the next
few weeks. Those that survive will then
go to a “floor vote” — a vote of the full
house — and then potentially on to the
Governor for his signature or veto.
Some of the surviving bills would
not affect Rockridge, although they
might affect other cities. This article
focuses only on those with the greatest
potential impact on Rockridge.


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Thank You Former
and Future Volunteers
— by Susan Montauk, Rockridge
News Distribution Manager
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A Party Pops Up On
College Avenue
— by Anna L. Marks

the Oak Art Library (see news item
below), BART Bridge, Open Mind
Music, Golden Bug, Pegasus Books,
Cole Hardware, Bella Vita, Right
Angle Salon, and Phoenix Optical. n
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n Saturday, June 12, College
Avenue businesses, from Keith
to Lawton, set up individual pop-ups
to celebrate the end of Covid restric-
tions. “This Block Party was a joint
effort of all the stores on the 5500
Block of College Avenue to celebrate
all that we went through during such
a difficult time this last year and a
half — and that we are still here,”
said Liz Taylor of Tootsies.” Tootsies
Rockridge/Crush On College, is a
women/minority-owned boutique that
opened in 2005. The next block party
is scheduled for July 17th.
Other participating stores included
he Rockridge News would like to
thank Janet Kirk, Alan and Julie
Chin, and Noah Treuhaft, who have
graciously served as Block Captains
and are now moving on. We also
extend a warm welcome to three new
volunteers who will be Block Captains
for the first time as of this issue —
Charlotte Strother, Peter Birkholz,
and Benjamin Connolly. We are con-
stantly buoyed by the enthusiasm and
goodwill of our Rockridge neighbors
who step up to serve their community.
Lastly, we wish to acknowledge all
of the 150 volunteers who prepare the
paper for delivery, pick up and deliver
boxes and bundles, and go door-
to-door to over 5,400 homes in the
Rockridge area. The Rockridge News
has been on people’s doorsteps since
1986 and is one of the very few com-
munity papers that is still printed and
hand-delivered, making Rockridge
even more special.
This is a call to those of you who
wish to be part of The Rockridge News
family to claim one of the Block Cap-
tain routes below:
BART Bridge’s Jeff Shores is a
“Man of Many Hats.”
05G:  Both sides of 5800 Chabot Court
and 6578-6608 Chabot Road.
Oarsmen Steve Bollhoefer and Zach Vieira entertained passersby.
11B:  From 5484 College, even numbers
up to 5542 Taft across to odd numbers,
starting 5545 then to 5560 College.
Rent Before You Buy at The Oak Art Library
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12A:  From Manila odd numbers along
5539-5437 Broadway to Ada, evens on
Ada to Bryant, even numbers 5408-
5442 Bryant to Manila.
id you ever think it would be nice
to test out how new artwork
looks in your home before purchasing
it? Well, now you can at the Oak Art
Library. This new concept allows you
to check out artwork like you would
check out a book from the library. A
$20 monthly fee allows members to
“borrow” any one piece of art for up
to three months and then swap it out
with something new, or purchase the
artwork directly from the artist.
Located at 5550 College Avenue, the
artspace gallery is open for visitors and
features up to 30 different artists. n
This monthly task takes about 15-30
minutes to complete and is typically
done during the weekend following
the first Friday of each month. Bun-
dles are dropped at the doorstep of
our Block Captains to deliver onto
porches or by inserting the newsletter
in stair railings (no mailboxes please).
Please email Susan at smontauk@
gmail.com, or call (510) 547-3855 to
volunteer. n
Mike Hampton, who also runs the
pop-up shop BART Bridge, helps find
artists for the library’s collection.


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Stained Glass
Restorer Honors
A Legacy
— by Judith Doner Berne,
Rockridge News Staff Writer
She’s the second person in the world,
and the first woman, to receive
a master’s degree in stained glass
conservation from the Royal College
of Art in London. She has interned at
The Getty in Los Angeles and worked
in the Victoria and Albert Museum
in London and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York.
But Ariana Makau, who describes
herself as “proudly half-Californian,
half-Kenyan,” chose Rockridge to raise
her family, and Oakland as headquar-
ters for her stained-glass creation,
preservation, and restoration business
— Nzilani Glass Conservation.
Nzilani, the company she founded
and nurtured from a tiny one-room
studio in Berkeley 20 years ago, now
inhabits five spacious units in a West
Oakland building dedicated to artists
and small businesses that support
the arts. She named it for her Kenyan
grandmother, “to honor and amplify
my grandmother’s legacy.”
But it was her Southern California
grandfather, a carpenter and drafts-
man, who gave Makau her first toolkit
around the age of seven, including
“We use a lot of old dental tools for the precision required to restore
stained glass,” says Ariana Makau, founder of Nzilani Glass Conservation.
rienced “a shift in our clientele from
monumental buildings as in San Fran-
cisco’s Grace Cathedral to residential
houses in Oakland and Piedmont.
We’ve always done residential but not
of the volume we’ve done in the last
year” as many people devoted more
attention to their homes, where they
lived, worked, and studied.
“a hammer that fit my hand.” From
there, it was a winding road to a
career in stained glass conservation
influenced by a life-long desire to con-
tribute to the stability and longevity of
meaningful objects.
She first came to Oakland for
what was supposed to be a six-week
housesitting stint for her father.
“Twenty-plus years later I have a
well-established stained glass conser-
vation firm in West Oakland, and my
family has been living in Rockridge
for over 15 years. My father has since
moved two blocks away, so we are a
multigenerational family with Peralta
and Claremont kids.”
During Covid, when we were forced
to become homebodies, Makau expe-
Makau seems to find the same joy
in these smaller, very local scenarios
as she did from the 2018 California
Preservation Design Award-win-
ning repair of the two 45-foot high,
303-panel New and Old Testament
windows in the iconic Grace Cathe-
dral. Stained glass windows are
assembled with strips of lead, she
explained, and somewhere between
80-100 years in place the lead starts to
fail. The Grace Cathedral windows,
installed in 1931-32 and composed of
2,000 square feet of glass, took four
years to remove, restore, clean, and
replace.
“I take pleasure in being a woman
business owner who can bring a
diversely skilled team to preserve
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6315 Chabot Rd                    $1,895,000
        $1,895,000
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$2,840,000
           6/2/2019
3
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5533 Taft Ave                        $1,295,000
        $1,295,000
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           6/2/2019
5
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        $1,949,000
11
$2,900,000
           6/3/2019
3
1.5

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        $1,349,000
4
$1,900,000
           6/8/2019
4
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         $1,925,000
12
$3,350,000

6/10/2019
2
1

5515 Broadway Ter                $995,000
           $995,000
9
$1,320,000

6/11/2019
3
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482 Clifton St                         $1,085,000
        $1,185,000
22
$1,200,000
           6/14/2019
3
1.5
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        $1,695,000
13
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6/15/2019
2
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           $695,000
12
$825,000

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2
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Eyes on Rockridge, from previous page
windows in ‘my backyard,’” Makau
told me. The art glass she sees in
vintage houses throughout Rockridge
“adds so much quality to these homes
and, often, there’s a story behind
them.” Although sometimes it’s a
repair made necessary by a stray
football, more often the life of stained
glass in these houses, built in the early
twentieth century, is ebbing.
Particularly meaningful to her, she
said, “was doing a small repair on a
front door at St. Albert’s Priory after
which I was given a tour of their beau-
tiful stained-glass windows that line
the chapel. It’s experiences like this
that make it hard to consider living
elsewhere.”
“We contacted Ariana after an
incident of vandalism,” Fr. John
told me as he, Fr. James, and I stood
within the gates of the Priory, nes-
tled within the row of homes lining
Chabot Road. Someone had smashed
an antique window closest to the lock
on the front door of the chapel, built
in 1940 but, luckily, didn’t gain entry.
“We were very pleased to find a
local artist of her ability who was a
member of our Rockridge commu-
nity,” Fr. John said. Makau and her
crew set up shop on the chapel lawn
to make the repair and used antique
glass from the Priory’s storerooms.
“It’s always a joy to work with
someone who has her ability and
craftsmanship,” Father James added.
They are hoping to reconnect with
her for the renovation of the chapel
windows.
Makau received a 2020 California
Preservation Design Award for her
company’s successful conservation of
the 12-panel inverted stained-glass
dome in the sanctuary of Resurrec-
tion Oakland Church, on Franklin
and 17th Street in downtown Oak-
land. “At 118-years-old,” the award
presenters said, “the dome was in a
critical state of disrepair, requiring
glass stabilization, re-leading, and
the re-engineering of its structural
support system.”
Top of mind for Makau in taking
on these projects is the safety of the
artists she trains and employs, and the
Her Kenyan grandfather gave Ariana Makau her first toolkit around age
seven, including “a hammer that fit my hand.”
individual who I really respect,”
said Jessica Waggoner, a neighbor
and fellow Peralta parent. The two
found common ground as female
entrepreneurs. Waggoner, a principal
in Maj Realty, had Makau speak to
some of her colleagues since “we
often do repairs in older homes. She’s
so top of her game, so professional. I
love her credo: ‘Be safe, have fun, do
excellent work.’”
To comment on this column and/
or suggest topics for the future, please
email judyberne@att.net. n
contractors she hires. Among other
measures, she has installed a heavy
metal filtration system and requires
extensive personal protection gear for
handling hazardous materials. “Every-
one in the core team is a certified lead
and asbestos worker,” she told me.
“We check people’s blood lead levels
every six months and do annual respi-
rator fit tests.”
She takes pleasure in making pre-
sentations to schoolchildren, most
often at Peralta Elementary where her
10-year-old goes, and her 13-year-old,
now at Claremont Middle School,
also attended. A recurring theme is:
“There are different ways to learn.
You don’t have to have a master’s
degree to be successful,” explaining
that her employees come from differ-
ent backgrounds and often learn on
the job. “The only thing we can’t teach
is curiosity.”
Married to Dylan Nolfi, a videog-
rapher “who can make anything,”
Makau once told a real estate agent
who suggested a house in another
community, “I’d rather rent (which
they were doing) than move out of
Rockridge.” They enjoy eating at Filip-
po’s and “the Rockridge Library is one
of the staples of our family.” She loves
the sense of community at Peralta
where “I’ve made lifelong friendships.”
“She’s a dear friend and a stand-up
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Helping Neighbors In a Most Unusual Way
Trader Joe’s Line-Watch Camera Shuts Down After
A Year of Serving Rockridge

— by Theresa Nelson
Wthe elderly, the disabled, pregnant
women, people with young children,
and anyone especially vulnerable to
the new virus sweeping the country,
minimizing the wait time was a true
benefit.
One reader suggested appealing to
users with a donation opportunity.
Adrian thought that the Alameda
County Community Food Bank
would be the right match, especially
given the severe effects of the shut-
down on so many East Bay families.
She added a button to donate to the
Food Bank, and many grateful users
did indeed make donations, quickly
reaching a $1,000 goal, and then even
higher goals thereafter. Positive com-
ments poured in, and users called it
“life-changing” and “this made a huge
difference for me.” Adrian’s project
was even mentioned in an article in
the Wall Street Journal.
Then, on Memorial Day, Trader
Joe’s moved the line to Oak Grove
Avenue, on the other side of the store.
Many people had come to rely on the
livestream, so the next day, Adrian
dropped a note in a few mailboxes on
Oak Grove, asking if a resident might

hen the sudden lockdown
happened in March 2020, few
of us were prepared for the subsequent
long lines for everyday activities like
buying groceries. Occupancy limits
and product shortages made tasks like
these very stressful. Almost overnight,
lines became hours long, leading to
frustration and sometimes, even con-
frontations.
Adrian Moyer, a marketing con-
sultant and a neighbor who then
lived on Miles Avenue, could see this
stress and anxiety out her apartment
window every day. For a few weeks,
she would post on Nextdoor when
the line was short, but many did not
see the message until much later.
Someone suggested a livestream, and
given her ideal location, she delved
into what would be needed. Within a
week she put together a website, set up
a Twitch account, carefully positioned
an old cell phone in a window, and
launched it with a note on Nextdoor.
In April 2020, Adrian launched her
website, RockridgeTJsLine.com and
the livestream was an immediate
hit, even more so as the weather
grew warmer, and the long line often
deterred people from shopping. For

TJ’s Line Watch, see next page


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Marketing consultant Adrian Moyer found retired State employee
Alison Colgan to answer the call to host the TJ line-watch camera.
TJ’s Line Watch, from previous page
It’s something I never could have pre-
dicted when this pandemic started.”
And Alison noted, “I am so grateful to
Adrian for giving me the opportunity
to do something positive.”
be willing to host the webcam.
Alison Colgan, a retired State
employee, answered the call, and
within two days, she and Adrian had
the webcam back up and running.
Alison’s home had a perfect view of
the line, and she generously took over
the daily task of turning the stream
on and off to match TJ’s open hours.
“I was so grateful to be able to do
something that would help others,”
Alison noted, and Adrian responded,
“and it is so nice to have made a new
friend during this pandemic.” Alison
smiled in agreement.
In thinking about when and how
to end the webcam, Adrian hit on
the idea of using plastic vaccine
card-holders to spur a final surge in
donations. Today the donations to the
Food Bank stand at $7,800, from more
than 230 people. Adrian is offering
a handy card-holder for every $5
donated, but she’s offering to triple the
offer for Rockridge News readers. She’s
hoping this final push will bring her
closer to her final goal of $10,000.
When asked what she’d learned
from this experience, Adrian said,
“I learned that you never know when
you might find yourself in the right
place at the right time to help others...
I went from feeling rather helpless to
having a purpose and a mission.
Show your gratitude, donate to the
Alameda County Foodbank at https://
www.gofundme.com/f/rockridge-
trader-joes-line-watch-project. n
How To Claim Your FREE
Vaccine Card Holder
1) Visit RockridgeTJsLine.com and click the
‘donate’ button (all funds directly benefits the
ACCFB).
2) Take a screenshot of your donation and
email it to adrianemoy@gmail.com along
with information on where you want the card
holder/s sent.
3) Mention The Rockridge News to receive
three card holders for every $5 donated.
Card holders should arrive via USPS within a
few days.
TJ’s Line Watch
Key Website Stats as of June 15, 2021:
30,050 unique visitors
5,048 hours streamed
231 individual donors
$7,855 total donations


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Is Affordable
Housing Still Possible
in Rockridge?
— by Stuart Flashman, RCPC
Land Use Committee Chair

In last month’s article on the results
from the Rockridge Housing Study,
we learned that land cost can be an
important part of overall housing
cost. Because Rockridge is such a
desirable place to live — with pleas-
ant tree-lined streets, convenient
walking access to shops selling food
and clothing as well as a drug store,
hardware store and lots of other
things, and convenient access to

means a developer seeking to replace
an 1,800-square-foot, single-family
home on an average 5,300-square-
foot lot would have to pay about $1.4
million. If you built two homes on
the lot, the land cost would be about
$700,000 each.
If we assume each new unit is 1,500
sq. ft. at $500/sq.ft. construction
cost, that’s $750,000 per unit, for a
total cost of $1.45 million per unit
($700k for land + $750k for vertical
construction). That comes out to a
cost of $967 per square foot, which is
pretty high for a duplex unit — and
that doesn’t take into account tear-
down cost or the developer profit.
The results don’t come out much
better if one builds a fourplex
instead. As a result of the high land
cost in Rockridge, it still doesn’t
pencil out.
The figures don’t look any better
for trying to buy a commercial lot,
say the Levant Rug Store parcel,
where, based on 2020 assessed value,
the land cost would be even higher
at $15 million per acre. The price per
acre of commercial property here
is generally every bit as high as for
residential property.
The only Rockridge lot that looks
at all feasible for affordable housing
development would be the Davita
Dialysis Center on Claremont Avenue
where the large amount of parking
space brings the land cost down to
about $4 million per acre. n
public transit, freeways, and major
surface streets— land costs are
higher here than almost anywhere
else in the East Bay. That’s not good
news if one hopes to build affordable
housing in Rockridge.
The analysis that housing consul-
tant Darin Smith volunteered to do
for the Rockridge Housing Study,
based on figures available from
2018-2019, gave us some unpleasant
news about how costly it would be
to build affordable (or even market
rate) housing here in Rockridge. (The
results of this analysis are posted on
the new Rockridge.org website.)
The study revealed that the average
per-acre cost of for-sale housing in
zip code 94618, at that time, was
about $11 million per acre. That


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The Re-Up Refill Shop
Relocates to Rockridge
— by Skip Fogarty
If you’re looking for signs of retail
revival on College Avenue, you’ll be
pleased to learn that the Re-Up Refill
Shop is opening a new store this week.
Located at 6025 College, just south of
Claremont, the new brick-and-mortar
operation relocates the Re-Up busi-
ness from an urban farm and maker
space in West Oakland to the com-
mercial heart of our neighborhood.
Since we first reported about Re-Up
and its co-founders last June, they’ve
operated out of a converted shipping
container, offering their line of clean-
ing and personal care products in
eco-friendly, reusable containers. In
addition to onsite retail sales, Re-Up
also makes home deliveries in the
Berkeley and Oakland area with a
battery-powered bicycle.
The pandemic did not deter life-
long friends and Rockridge residents
Peter Lollo and Matt Zimbalist from
starting their business. Indeed, they
realized that home delivery was a
winning strategy for the times.
“It’s been a good first year for us.
We’ve served over 2,000 customers,
diverted at least 15,000 single-use
containers, and created several
decent paying jobs.”
Lollo jokes that a future “Fortune
Amber glass bottles are the hallmark
of Re-Up’s line of products. Reducing
the waste of single-use plastic is at
the core of the business.
Photos courtesy of Re-Up
The Re-Up team in front of their
new shop at 6025 College Avenue.
continue,” he exclaims.
Wherever possible, Re-Up products
are pure, organic, and locally sourced.
Another core principle of their mis-
sion is reducing plastic waste, so their
liquid products are packaged in beau-
tiful amber glass bottles. When you’ve
used up your lotion or hand sanitizer,
you simply return the bottles to the
store or delivery person for a deposit
refund and reuse.
“Diverting a plastic bottle from
landfill can seem so small as to be
meaningless,” Lollo says. “In reality,
plastic production has significant
climate and social impacts. While
our diversion efforts only make a
tiny dent, the real point is to increase
awareness, drive policy change, and
do our part to shift away from sin-
gle-use. That’s our hope, at least.”
The Re-Up team is aiming for a soft
launch of the new store on July 3. In
characteristic fashion, the partners
remodeled the space themselves.
Naturally, they’ve used reclaimed
lumber to build rustic wooden shelves
and counters. New flooring and
lighting lend a slightly industrial feel
as the partners transformed what was
previously a dry cleaning business.
Of course, it helps that Zimbalist is a
licensed contractor.
To encourage neighbors to stop by
and browse their new store, Re-Up is
offering a 15 percent discount to first-
time customers, or visit their website at
www.reuprefills.org and use the promo
code “WelcomeRockridge.” n
From left: Peter Lollo, Carly Fishman
and Matt Zimbalist.
500 company can operate out of a
shipping container for only so long.
Now with a lot more space, we can
expand our product offerings,”
explains Lollo, who has partnered
with Zimbalist and associate Carly
Fishman in growing the company
from a startup concept to their new
storefront.
“Initially, we’ll add a range of bulk
foods to our product line,” Lollo says.
“Nuts, cereal, legumes, and flours.
And we’ll have grinders so people can
make nut butters.” He adds that they
will also carry a variety of essential
oils. “And the e-bike deliveries will
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RCPC History, from front page
freeway from the Caldecott Tunnel to
the Bay, incorporating Ashby Avenue,
to accommodate the growing Contra
Costa commuter traffic to San Fran-
cisco. Berkeley’s conservative elites
were well-organized, and pushed back
on those early plans, forcing relocation
of the freeway to the working-class
neighborhoods of the North Oakland,
Temescal, and West Oakland flatlands.
Ashby Avenue is still a designated part
of the State highway system, now num-
bered CA-13.
Before the Grove-Shafter Freeway
was built, most people knew the
neighborhood as the Chimes District,
a name popularized by the opening
on Oak Grove. It was an important
influence on and a frequent subject of
a group of Plein-air painters, who in
1917, became known as The Society of
Six. As William Gerdts wrote in his
book American Impressionism, “The
Oakland Six may constitute the most
important modernist development that
occurred in this country during the
1920s.” Their use of color, the land, and
light had a great influence on postwar
Northern California modern painters
such as Richard Diebenkorn and
Wayne Thiebaud. The creek now runs
almost totally in culverts under the
freeway in Rockridge, with a few open
sections on Miles above the firehouse.
Six years of freeway and BART con-
struction brought a new reality. Key
shops and services were razed, includ-
ing the Bank of America. Thousands
of neighbors were displaced as hun-
dreds of dwelling units were taken by
eminent domain. The business district
was bisected and left with multiple
empty lots, previously used for freeway
construction yards.
Only roughly 50 percent of the
original businesses were still open,
and many storefronts were boarded
up. Prominent spots that were vacant
included the corners at Harwood and
College (currently the Golden Squirrel
building) and Chabot and College
(Beer Baron), as well as the lot that the
Market Hall now occupies. The empty
lot at Harwood became the focal point
for the neighborhood pushback.
The next article will trace the origins
of community organizing in Rockridge. n
of a very fancy movie theater in 1917
that featured a full set of chimes. It
stood about where the Market Hall is
today. By the 1920s, College Avenue
was known as the Chimes district, and
many businesses carried the name. By
the 1950s and 60s, people thought the
name came from the fact that the area
was so quiet that the carillon bells at
UC Berkeley’s Sather Tower could be
heard chiming the hour and playing
the noon concert.
The neighborhood boasted a robust
commercial district that over time
featured multiple groceries, two movie
theaters, two bowling alleys, a skating
rink, two car dealerships, three gas
stations, florists, children’s and adult’s
clothing stores, bakeries, French
laundries, dry cleaners, pharmacies,
churches, banks, a community hall
and later, eating establishments.
On the upper floors of most
buildings were commuter-oriented
apartments, and two buildings had
doctors and dentists upstairs (look
up at Harwood and College to see
the architectural evidence), plus one
of the first elevators in a commercial
building in Oakland. The merchants
association sponsored an annual
weekend Arts & Crafts Fair.
One of the finest features, one
enjoyed by generations of children
and adults alike, was a beautiful creek
running through Temescal Canyon
that functioned as a large neighbor-
hood park. Temescal Creek ran almost
fully open from the dam at Lake
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654-8707 or 593-4780
PROVIDING

Professional,

Full Service

Real Estate Brokerage

To Rockridge Clients
 For Over 26 Years.
SPECIALIZING IN

OResidential Sales

OIncome Property

OCommercial

OProperty Management
Better Homes
Realty
5353 College Avenue
Oakland

SOLD
ROCKRIDGE
398 60th - $1,468,000
$1,980,000
COMING SOON
TEMESCAL
4811 Telegraph - Temescal Place
• 3 Bedrooms, 2+ Bathrooms
• Townhouse Style Condo
        w/Loft & Fireplace
• Rooftop Decks w/Views
• 2 Secure Parking Spaces
• Primary Bedroom w/Ensuite Bathroom
• Almost 2,000 sqft
Stay Safe and Well.
L A W T   O   N
Ron Kriss, Broker
Lawton Associates
(c) 510-612-2547
RonKriss@JPS.net
A  S  S  O  C  I A T  E  S
R  E A  L    E  S T A T  E
B  R  O  K  E  R A  G  E
“#1 in Rockridge
Real Estate”
160+ Successful Sales
in Rockridge
DRE# 01417458
www.LawtonAssoc.com