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As for charges paid to the City, Oakland Department of Transportion (OQakDOT) finalized the rules governing scooter sharing companies, including fees to the City, in December, 2018. You can see the actual document setting out the condi- tions and fees on the OakDOT page on the City website ...

Wlad Wlassowsky, who heads the Oakland Department of Transportation, did not respond to my request for an interview. Had he done so, I would also have asked him how the City could justify this deception, and if and how it will be remedied.

The Bay Area Partnership proposes the Oakland Department of Public Works sponsor a Rockridge Commons Competition to select an architect/developer team by March 1988 to design and build the facility consistent with the wishes of the Neighbor- hood, the merchants and the City.

By Oakland Department

Mini Changes, Major Fun: Mini-Roundabouts Coming Soon to Shafter by Oakland Department of Transportation Staff When a street gets repaved, it’s a magical time. The stripes are bright, the crosswalks are crisp, and the street is so, so smooth. At the Oakland Department of Transportation, or OakDOT, we’re excited about deliver...

By Oakland Department

by Oakland Department of Transportation Ons Department of Transportation

Much of this was done through Oakland Thrives, a leadership council that brings together city, county, school district, philanthropic and business leaders who work to advance well-being and equity for Oakland children, families, and communities. Creating Oakland Undivided: Establishing t...

Kogan is a graduate student at the Department of Political Science, University of California – San Diego. McCubbins is Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Associates Chair in Political Science, University of California – San Diego; Visiting Professor of Law, University of Southern Califo...

By Karen Sternstein

School Safety Patrol has been in Oakland Public Schools for 87 years. AAA has sponsored the program nationally since 1923. The Oakland Police Department runs the program and is the last department in the immediate area to do so. Additional support is from the Alameda Country Public Health D...

By Annalee Allen

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and BART General Manager Grace Crunican unveiled the new plaque, and Oakland Fire Department Chief Teresa Deloach Reed and Berkeley Fire Department Chief Gil Dong read the names of each victim. As each name was read, BART police Lt...

By Becky Alseth

DMV Neighbors Association, leonorasea@ yahoo.com, or look up Temescal creek on the city’s Creek to Bay Day web site: www. oaklandcreektobay.org. Are you interested in neighborhood creeks in Oakland and the East Bay? Visit the Oakland Museum of California watershed website: http://museumca.org/ creeks/MapOak.html. /Monte McClain /Monte McClain Rollover Collision at Controversial...

How are you faring during Oakland’s crisis of crime? Do you find news of more police academies encouraging? Are you seeing more police on the street? What other steps are city administrators and police managers considering to improve public safety and peace of mind? Get first-hand in...

The Oakland Police Department (OPD) has reiterated that it’s commit- ted to the full investigation of these violent incidents and is working in close coordination with nearby juris- dictions also experiencing an upsurge in violence. Councilmember Gallo has joine...

...sible. “It’s a major inconvenience if you are prepared; a disaster if you are not,” he suggested. Earthquakes may dominate predictions of Bay Area disaster, but they are not the only sources of potential trouble. Consider, for example, the Oakland Firestorm of October, 1991. But, two years before that fire, it was after an earthquake – Loma Prieta, October 17, 1989 – when the Oakland Fire Department and other first responders realized that no city could mount an effective response to a full-sc...

Department’s reorganization, one of several recommendations of the recent consultants’ evaluation. Rockridge is now in District Two of five newly drawn districts, and covers most of North Oakland. It is headed up by Captain Anthony Toribio, who many may reca...

several city departments, including Oakland school and police departments. After-Effects of School’s State Receivership When the state returned control of the school district to Oakland, the turnover included $17 million in structural deficits accrued during seven years ...

...roup, now heads OPD’s traffic division His philosophy of free speech perme- ated and facilitated communication on his newsgroup, whose current approximately 350 members include residents, cops, city officials and reporters. by Janet Somers Oakland Police Lt. Lawrence Green, who three and a half years ago started an innovative Yahoo group allowing police and citizens of North Oakland to talk to each other, has left his post as North Oakland commander to head the department’s traffic division an...

Working Together The Oakland Police Department, the Community Policing Advisory Board, the Home Alert Steering Committee and the City Administrator’s Office invite you to attend the: Oakland Community Summit Free and Open to the Public Saturday, May 21, 2005 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p....

By Susan Montauk

Oakland Police Department Lt. Lawrence Green, assigned to North Oakland, dis- cussed the June 25 homicide of Nyima Sorensen, a recent UC Berkeley graduate who was celebrating his 26th birthday at the Hut, a bar on College Avenue. After Sorensen and his frien...

...https://www. oaklandca.gov/services/sign-up-for- adopt-a-drain. n inter is arriving, and could bring with it rainy or stormy weather that City workers, residents and business owners can prepare for now. Oakland Public Works and the City of Oakland Department of Transportation crews have been making advance preparations to help mitigate weather impacts and enable crews to respond as effectively as pos- sible to requests for service. Volunteers are needed for the City’s Adopt-A-Drain program to ...

8:30 pm Oakland Police Department Study What kind of job are the police in Oakland doing? Here’s your chance to express your opinion! Diane M. Alexander, J.D., of The Lattimer Consulting Group, Inc., will discuss the study her firm is conducting of the OPD and distr...

First, the Alameda County Environmental Health Department pointed me to similar properties that had been repurposed, including a pop-up beer garden in the Laurel that is also located on an old gas station. With ACEHD’s help, a comparative soil analysis showed that our local lot is overall less impacted t...

City of Oakland [ January 2019, Chief Kirkpatrick reported substantial decreases in crime rates for the city at large in 2018; you can find the report at http://tinyurl.com/yypo7jun, with a link to the full city-wide crime report for 2018. In 2018, Oakland had the l...

CCA has hired an Oakland public relations firm, Craig Communications (510/433-0277, http://craig-communications.com), to help it reach out to the East Bay community for comments and recommendations on the re-use plans. The second half of the program featured a presentation b...

Department developed the CORE program, or Communities of Oakland Respond to Emergencies, to teach a community how to survive for seven to 10 days after a disaster, about the time expected for professional first responders to arrive. The CORE program, speaker...

Oakland Tech Tome Celebrates 100 Years of Schooling At RCPC’s September Board Meeting... In this issue of The Rockridge News, the RCPC board of directors initiates the practice of sharing a list of the items discussed at its most recent meeting to increase c...

...mercial districts. Operating at speeds that did not overly threaten pedestrians or disrupt the sociability of folks on the sidewalks, streetcars were more a part of the environment than an imposition. “Then,” said Rachel Flynn, director of Oakland’s planning and building department, “the car screwed us up. A great invention in many ways but it wreaked havoc on our cities.” Speaking to an audience of more than 70 people at June’s RCPC Town Hall, Flynn went on to review the founding of Oakland a...

By Leonora Sea

Many thanks also to Chris Staller of Oakland’s Public Works Department (DPW), who welcomed volunteers at the sign-in table, and to Luciano Cortes-Nicolas, also of DPW and the park’s regular gardening angel, who managed the extensive debris-bag pickup. Check out the Oakland North Website for a s...

By Judith Doner Berne

offered free training sessions through its CORE (Citizens of Oakland Respond to Emergencies) program, run by the Oakland Fire Department Office of Emergency Ser- vices. But, apparently what was happening in Japan prompted a surge of interest in the program, so it wasn’t until October that CORE volunteer Ben Hamburg pr...

In 1917, Oakland Technical High School ordered a Steinway Model B Piano from Steinway & Sons in New York City. The school had opened in 1912, and needed the instrument for the many student per- formances at the high school. They had an orchestra, band, chorus, glee c...

By Ortrun Niesar

The Rockridge Muse by Ortrun Niesar In her weekly column in the Oakland Tribune, Allen writes about landmarks and local history. She also orchestrates the Oakland Walking Tours program. She is widely recognized as an authority on Oakland’s architecture and has served as president of Oakland Heritage Alliance and a member...

....” The Zoning Counter The Zoning Counter provides Rockridge residents with an opportunity to review construction project proposals to be under- taken in their neighborhoods. While it is a compilation of recent application(s) filed with the Oakland Planning Department, it is not necessarily a complete or up-to-date listing. Individuals may contact the Case Planner or the Planning Department for additional information.  The Curious Incident of the Dog in

By Claire Wahrhaftig-Isaacs

While North Oakland extends beyond the boundaries of Rockridge—and most crime in Rockridge involves burglary or theft—rising crime is a concern for many area residents. As a result, an overflow crowd turned out to hear Councilmember Jane Brunner and leaders of the Oakla...

Planning Department, along with any zoning application. The tree permit application is then referred to the Tree Division of the Office of Parks and Recreation for detailed analysis and a final decision. dispute over the City of Oakland’s handling of a construction p...

By Michael Whitfield

Police Department, which provides access to information about sex offenders to anyone 18 years or older. Oakland Police point out that registered sex offenders may pose less risk to resi- dents than offenders who have not yet been arrested and convicted of crimes. ...

implement “new standards of excellence for the maintenance and programming of our parks.” The survey revealed that parks and play areas in Oakland are in dire need of main- tenance and upgrading. The Coalition’s park status report convinced City Council members of the urgent need to provide extra resources for park maintenance. Given budget constraints, the Council could only shuffle money with...

Send comments to Auril Tolley, Oakland Planning Department, 1330 Broadway, Suite 310, Oakland; CA 84612. Phone 273-3911.

Oakland Technical High School’s Drama Department will present two performances in December of “The Crucible”, written by Arthur Miller and directed by Andy Hamner. Perform- ances are scheduled for December 8 and 9, 7:30 pm in the Oakland Tech Audito- rium at...

By Andy Young

The City of Oakland and the Oakland Library Department want to establish a

According to police department crime analysis statistics presented by Ms. Dawson, residential burglary in the North Oakland beat has dropped dramatically since the program’s implementation. At the beginning of the first quarter of 1988, Beat 13 ranked sixth highest in crime amo...

“ASSETS” is an Oakland program ad- ministered by BACS and funded by the National Council of Senior Citizens and the City of Oakland Private Industry Council under a contract with the U.S. Department of Labor.

Pioneered by the City of Oakland in 1969 under the name “Home Alert.”, today’s “Neighborhood Watch” program is based on a format proven to be the best crime prevention tool in the country! Residential burgla- Ties, street drug dealing and other crimes have been re- duced significant...

In the past few years, the Oakland Fire Department has seen tremendous budget cuts, but the most recent plan by Oakland’s City Council in the Fall of 1986 called for the closure of Engine #19. The Union obtained an injunction while negotiations began. That’s when local residents got i...

Our Department of Violence Prevention (DVP) and our Ceasefire partners also are working on how best to stop this recent upswing in gun violence. DVP is focusing on gang and group conflicts that are contributing to the violent behavior. Over the holiday season, i...

By Berkeley’s Health Department

When Oakland Tech grad Nathan Nakadegawa-Lee’s gig at The Backroom in Berkeley was unexpectedly cancelled by Berkeley’s Health Department on Sunday, October 18, the 19-year-old saxophonist and his fellow East Bay band members took to the front porch of his Rockri...

— by Angela Moore, Oakland Police Department Neighborhood Services Coordinator

— Victoria Eisen, Consulting Caldecott Project Coordinator Department of Transportation City of Oakland

Department of Transportation is willing to make this tradeoff to protect the lives of Oakland residents. Q5: There was no consideration of Lawton and Ocean View residents when planning this project. A. The intent of the project is to help senior citizens, pa...

Transportation Department (OakDOT) will also discuss and hear feedback on other topics of interest to Rockridge residents, including planned changes in enforcement of Residential Permit Parking and more general issues around the City’s bikeshare program, as well as other s...

Does the City of Oakland Planning Department’s left hand know what the right hand is doing? Was there community input into these decisions, and if so was there full disclosure on the planned developments when the “lane diet” decision was made? Does the RCPC or anyone else ha...

Officer Antony Hutzol, the Oakland Police Department’s Community Resources Officer (CRO) for Rockridge, discussed the importance of interacting in a sensi- tive and human way when responding to a dispatcher’s call for service involving a homeless person. He pointed out that telling a ...

Production Combines Skills of Tech’s Drama Department and Fashion Academy in a Celebration of Survival and Recovery Following Disaster Prepare for an evening of raw truth telling as Oakland Technical High School’s award-winning, critically acclaimed OakTechRep brings to life “Voices from the Storm” b...

DMV Creekside – Restoration Update The city of Oakland’s Public Works Department is expected to begin staking the locations of the planned new trees, shrubs, boulders and picnic table at the DMV Creekside the first two weeks of December. FROG, DMV Neighbors Association and Miles Ave nu e r e si d e n t s...

By Bill Kaufner

...er four foreign languages including Mandarin 1, 2, and 3, and Italian 1 and 2. In mathematics we have Statistics Advanced Placement and Calculus AP. Our Computer Academy now has a networking course. We offer Creative Writing in our English Department. In Physical Education we have an Ice Sports class that meets at the Sharks Oakland Ice Rink. Established courses include Computer-Assisted Design (CAD)-3D drawing and California History. RN: On the student activities side are there any new clubs ...

... I’d say (to officers), ‘I don’t like officious cops. You need to be concerned about the issues, you need to be personable and real with people you deal with.’ The ones who didn’t get it, I would try to discourage from re-applying to North Oakland.” Green’s cop/citizen newsgroup may have been the first of its kind in the country (after its success, then-Chief Richard Word called for nine more groups to cover the city). Calls three years ago by this reporter to police departments in a dozen maj...

Oakland Fire Department and Zach Unger: Working Fire: The Making of an Accidental Fireman. • Thursday, 4/28, 11:30am. Quincy Troupe Elder Care Support Group 10:30am: 4/2, 4/9, 5/7. • Pre-School Story Time: 1st and 3rd Wednes- Free for family and friends cari...

for these activities by shar- ing their information as the first step toward finding the culprits, according to OPD officials. Alcatraz which includes Oakland Police Department Telegraph beats 12Y and § One client’s interest in found objects and personal expression resulted in a kitchen layout that was planned around a baker’s cabinet, and the backsplash incorporated tiles of characters that now “live” in ...

developing students’ understanding of their world.” uring the past year, a group of Chabot Elementary parents and educators have been investigating the possibility of open- ing a small public middle school in North Oakland. The co-founders of the project, Rachel Wylde and Vicki Hammarstedt, recently received a federal development grant, administered by the California State Department of Education, for designing and implementing a charter middle school in the area. The ...

By Cy Gulassa

Proto’ Cy GULASSA Leslie Gould, Director of Oakland’s Planning and Zoning department, explains the proposed new design review program to a Rockridge/ Temescal audience at Peralta Elementary October 14, sponsored by Councilmember Jane Brunner.

The Oakland Fire Department (OFD) has announced plans to temporarily relo- cate Station No. 8 to the parking lot on Sist Street across from its current facility while it replaces the existing fire house with a new structure. Members of the TNT Gateway committee,...

In 1988, former director of the City Parks and Recreation department, Herbye White, came up with the idea of a 52- mile drive modeled after San Francisco’s 49-mile drive (San Francisco was in- corporated in 1849, Oakland in 1852).

Dreyer’s knows that Oakland law requires it to get a Major Conditional Use Permit for residential conversion. In the 1989 EIR, it implies it obtained a permit in the mid- 1980s to convert three residential units on Claremont Avenue to offices (later demolished for the ex- istin...

Oakland’s Department of Planning Staff are still in the process of determin- ing whether Dreyer’s proposed 57,200 square-foot Claremont Avenue addition to its existing building on College Av- enue will require an Environmental Impact Report (EIR). Despite th...

City of Oakland Park and Recreation Department, paints non-traditional subjects

By Dan Pitcock

The Oakland City Council met in closed executive session several wecks ago to determine the future of the Hardy Park Dog Run. Before the Council were the following courses of action: 1) de- ciding that the process had become too bogged down with legal and planni...

By Stuart Flashman

...her two offices, Vice-Chair and Secretary, and the fifth, at-large member of the Board’s executive committee will be chosen at the Board’s regular May meeting. Once the election concluded, the Town Hall audience heard a presentation by the Oakland Department of Transportation staff and consultant Victoria Eisen about Rockridge/North Oakland street improvements funded by money from Oakland’s settlement with Caltrans over the Caldecott Improvement Project. The settlement projects are intended to...

In a recent letter to the Oakland City Council, the RCPC Board urged support for increasing the 1989-90 Budget alloca- tion for the Planning Department.

Send your comments to the Planning Department, 1 City Hall Plaza, Oakland, CA, 94612.

For more information on this program, call: Oakland Police Department Community Services Division at 273-3525.

By RCPC Library Committee

°Call the Oakland City Planning Department, Zoning Section: 273-3911.

By Leonora Sea

CALL TO ACTION by Leonora Sea, RCPC Chair T 1) Sign up for updates at: https://oaklandca19202.activehosted. com/f/114. he General Plan Update for Oakland’s 2045 General Plan is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for all Oaklanders to work together to create a visionary blueprint for the future of our city. Once approved in 2025, the Oa...

...ose reports to reveal rising trends≠ in crime. Captain Bolton of Area 2 has several projects under way, including planned awareness; education; deter­ rence and enforcement strategies. For more information, go to www. acgov.org/Census2020. Oakland Department of Transportation The real statement here is, yes, laptop thefts do happen in Rockridge.

the Oakland Department of Transportation (OakDOT), on the Rockridge transportation projects funded by the City of Oakland’s settlement of its lawsuit over the Caldecott Improvement Project. Among the projects to be discussed: an update on the Broadway lane diet;...

Rockridge Built A Library, 25 Years Ago by Annette R. Floystrup Firestorm Preparation: Then and Now by Annette R. Floystrup R “R ecently, the Berkeley City Council and the Berkeley Fire Department issued an advisory to all residents of the Berkeley Hills to “Be ready to leave the hills when the Berkeley Fire Department proclaims ‘Extreme Fire Weather’ due to forecasted low humidity and high winds.” It is likely that the Oakland Fire Departm...

attorney who led then-Gov. Jerry Brown’s California Human Resources Department. “Annalee’s one of the main fixtures on the block.” Allen’s job was 20 hours per week, but that never stopped her from put- ting in whatever time was necessary. “I was a long-time pro-bono person, and the actual time did not matter so much.” She a...

September 12, at the Rockridge Library, just prior the next Greater Rockridge NCPC (Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council) meeting. These ceremonies usually take place at the Oakland Police Department headquarters at 455-7th Street in downtown Oakland. Captain Toribio thought that it would be much better for these two fine officers to be recognized by the community members they help to protect. Join us on September 12, 6 p.m., at...

businesses. The East Bay SPCA – Oakland People Soft Adoption Center is located at 8323 Baldwin Street, Oakland, phone 510/569-0702. Oakland Animal Shelter and Animal Control Field Services, a division of the Oakland Police Department, is respon- sible for the welfare of all animals in Oakl...

National Night Out When neighbors know each other, neighborhoods are safer! WHAT: An invitation to individuals, families and groups in all Oakland neighborhoods to organize a block party, ice cream social, barbeque or other outdoor event that brings neighbors together and builds community. WHEN: Tuesday, August 5, 2008 — 7 PM – 9 PM How To Get Involved: Register on-line by visiting: http://www....

The Rockridge community will have its first chance to meet Lieutenant Jim Meeks, the recently appointed Oakland Police Department North Oakland Commander, at the July 20 Greater Rockridge Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council Town Hall. Others featured on the program are Reed Brothers Security and self-defense and martial arts instructor Vanessa Wilson. Crime ...

By Thomas Lollini

...tonomy to walk to their storefront after school. “They're the ideal age to be allowed an increased independence,” Rich said. “But the intersection is such a barrier to me feeling comfortable with it; it's just so incredibly dangerous.” The Oakland Department of Trans-

By Ronnie Spitzer

...ple of color are unfairly targeted for this type of enforcement, he is concerned about California’s high rate of pedestrian deaths. In the end, in order not to add further risk to pedestrian safety, the Governor witheld his signature. n he Oakland Department of Trans- portation (OakDOT) has released a draft 2022 Five-Year Paving Plan