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Marge Gibson-Haskell’s column has been a regular feature of The Rock- ridge News in order to provide direct communication from our councilmem- ber, not necessarily to endorse or sup- port her point of view.

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Marge Gibson-Haskell — 273-3266 City Council District 1

Marge Gibson-Haskell — 273-3266 City Council District 1

Marge Gibson-Haskell — 273-3266 City Council District 1

Marge Gibson-Haskell — 273-3266 City Council District 1

On pages 6 and 7, Councilmember Marge Gibson-Haskell and Neighbor Bryan Grun- wald examine the problems associated with another type of residential conversion: turning single-family homes into multiple bedroom rooming houses. Not regulated by current zoning law, these conversions compound tr...

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Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell City Council, District 1

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell City Council, District 1

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell City Council, District 1

By Sue Hone

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell City Council, District 1

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell City Council, District 1

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell City Council, District 1

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell City Council, District 1

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell City Council, District 1

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell City Council, District 1

Telephone your District One Councilmember Marge Gibson Haskell (273-3266), and Mayor Lionel J. Wilson, as well as Councilmember At-Large Frank Ogawa. Let them know that you support neighborhood planning efforts and urge them to support the RCPC conditions (see inside Pages 4 and 5) as part of any proj...

Follow up with a letter to Marge Gibson Haskell, 1 City Hall Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612, stating your support of the RCPC position, and please send RCPC a copy for inclusion in our Council Packet (5856 College Avenue, #130, Oakland, CA 94618). Feel free to also send copies of your letter ...

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell City Council, District 1

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell City Council, District 1

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell City Council, District 1

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell City Council, District 1

In a recent letter to Councilmember Marge Gibson-Haskell, the RCPC Board wrote, “We share this concern with other communities in Oakland because of the safety, health and traffic problems created by the conversions. We join with our Neighbors in Montclair and elsewhere in Oakland to request that...

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell City Council, District 1

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell

Is this the Marge Gibson Haskell Newsletter or is it The Rockridge News?

Inside, Marge Gibson-Haskell discusses some proposals by the City of Oakland to meet what many perceive to be a threat to traditional single-family neighborhoods.

City Councilmember Marge Gibson Haskell has been work- ing with City staff to research and refine a list of opuons address- ing the problem of conversions to shared living arrangements.

Important For Tax Proposal Marge Gibson-Haskell

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

Despite my feelings about the City, Marge Gibson—Haskell is super. I support her 100 per cent.

Sister Cities And Challenges For The Future: Marge Gibson Haskell

City: Marge Gibson Haskell Involvement — The Name of The Specific Plan’s Game

City: Marge Gibson Haskell

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Marge Gibson-Haskell — 273-3266 City Council District 1 Henry Gardner — 273-3301 CityManager

...ner ran after us and took us to a table, usually used by staff, that was out in the back. So, we had lunch with the garbage cans,” she happily relayed. Rockridge Café was the platform used by former District 1 Coun- cilwoman and Vice Mayor Marge Gibson Haskell to get together with constituents. Haskell, who served from 1979 to 1993, was there “before meetings, after meetings. Everybody knew where it was. It was a neigh- borhood hangout.” But no, she rarely went for a family meal. “I never get to...

pet peeve. It really annoys me that Marge Gibson-Haskell, our councilper- son, gets a column in this newsletter each month. This amounts to free campaign publicity for a local politi- Providing Ms. Gibson-Haskell

In response to Rockridge and Montclair community concern on this issue, Councilmember Marge Gibson-Haskell organized a task force in April. The task force includes Councilmember Gibson-Haskell, Director of City Planning Alvin James, Mr. Tom Webber of the City Attorney’s office, Ms. Carolyn De Martini of the City Manager’s Office, Ms. Elizabeth ...

However, the September issue left me with a most uneasy feeling. I question the wisdom of giving Marge Gibson-Haskell a monthly forum to voice her opinions. She is our elected representative to the City Council. It is important for The Rockridge News to report on her Council activities and how she votes, especially on issues affecting our Neighborhood. Th...

...for what was then the second busiest library in Oakland, and then to find a new permanent home. With cooperation from OUSD, the Director of Libraries, the Oakland City Manager’s Office, the Department of Public Works and then-Councilperson Marge Gibson-Haskell, a double-wide portable was placed on the grounds of Claremont Middle School at the corner of College and Birch Court.

Life-long Rockridge resident Nancy Dutcher, leader of the community effort, joined Winkie Campbell Notar, aide to then- Councilmember Marge Gibson Haskell, to share details of the effort to an audience gathered in the upstairs meeting room.

... that the already small library space (1,731 square feet) would be reduced to a total of 1,400 square feet of which only 1,000 square feet would be accessible to the public. Working with the city’s director of libraries, then-Councilmember Marge Gibson Haskell, the City Manager’s office, and the city’s Department of Public Works, the library committee planned and executed the relocation to Claremont Middle School (then known as Claremont Jr. High). After that, the real work began. RCPC initiated...

...uiring the property for off-street parking. RCPC and the College Avenue Merchants Associa- tion designated a joint committee to look into other possible uses of the site, and to communicate with the City, with the aid of then-Councilmember Marge Gibson- Haskell. The early proposals brought to the committee called for mixed-use devel- opment, with a branch library squeezed in

A Digging in to create a new Rockridge library are, from left, State of California c é& Librarian Kevin Starr, Library Director Martin Gomez, former Council- April 22, 1995, from 12 noon to 3 p.m. member Marge Gibson Haskell, Councilmember Sheila Jordan, Neighbors for Ifyou are 18 years of age or older and a Rockridge Library chair Nancy Dutcher, and RCPC chair Mary MacDonald. reside within RCPC boundaries (see map

Expressing their misgivings about the effectiveness of the token system, the Board reluctantly approved its estab- lishment when Councilperson Marge Gibson-Haskell pointed out that Rockridge residents might give more weight to BART’s assessment of the need for a second deck of parking if it could demonstrate efforts to ensure only BART patrons were using the current facility.

exchange of ideas on the Vern’s site. In discussion of the Pussycat Theater, Marge Gibson-Haskell reported on pro- posed revisions to the City’s zoning ordinance for adult activities, to be heard by the Planning Commission and City Council at the July 24th and 31st sessions. The legal issue is complicated by First Amendment rights, but...

in My View... Comments by Marge Gibson~-Haskell

..., project City News 2 4 7 proposals in Rockridge, merchant re- Downtown Development Updates 3 3 7 views, and news about other neighbor- : hood organizations, according to the Letters to the Editor 6 1 7 results of the readership survey. In Marge Gibson-Haskell Report 1 5 8 addition, readers want more informa- . tion about recycling and Rockridge his- Merchant Reviews 8 2 3 torical perspectives. Neighborhood News 13 - i) Interestingly, a number of respon- : aoe dents also asked for more letters t...

In My View... Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell

In My View... Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell

Comments by Marge Gibson-Haskell The Library Committee is working to determine the specific City Council, District 1 boundaries of the assessment district proposed to pay for part of the construction costs of the new Rockridge Branch Library

I am writing in response to a letter published in October which questioned the “wisdom” of providing our City Council Representative, Marge Gibson- Haskell, a newsletter column.

Director Abelson also indicated his intention “to convene a mecting with Councilmember Marge Gibson Haskell and a

...be forced to sell. The only way I will be able to retain my property is if the “silent majority” of neighbors that feel that I am being treated unfairly would send letters of support to me, so that I can forward them to the City, RCPC, and Marge Gibson- Haskell.

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

RCPC and The Rockridge News present this column to assist regular communication from local officials. Give some thought to what you read here, then give a call: Marge Gibson-Haskell — 273-3266 + Henry Gardner — 273-3301 City Council District 1 City Manager

...RCPC has been unfair in the past and is opposed to development; I feel the City and the neighbor- hood should not make it as difficult for developers to complete their projects. Generally, City support for College Avenue has been good, and Marge Gibson-Haskell has helped a lot. Some- times, though, developments need a variance from zoning to be built. I think the context of a development should determine the attitude toward variance requests. We need to look at each request on its own merits. Fo...

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

More than fifty Neighbors and merchants along with newly- elected Planning Commission chairman Doug Jones and Vice- Mayor Marge Gibson-Haskell joined in a lively RASP brain- storming session at last month’s RCPC General Meeting. Neigh- bors Sylvia de Trinidad and Karen Paulsell nimbly transcribed ideas, wishes and suggestions fielded from the audience by Neighbor Kerry O’Banion.w...

RCPC and The Rockridge News present these columns to assist regular communication from our local elected officials. Give some thought to what you read here, then give a call to the authors: Marge Gibson-Haskell — 273-3266 City Council District 1 Sheila Jordan - 652-7823 Oakland School Board District 1