The April 18th Town Hall was primarily devoted to a high-interest program: explaining California Senate Bill 50 – a bill to promote housing near train and ferry stops, along major bus routes, and in major job centers – and how it might affect Rockridge.  The program, expertly moderated by Ms.

Here is the agenda for the land use committee meeting set for Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 7:30 PM in the upstairs meeting room of the Rockridge Branch Library (5366 College Ave, corner of Manila Ave.) 1. Possible short update on Rockridge Housing Study 2. Discussion of SB 50 and possible recommendations to Board of Directors.

At RCPC's January 2019 Town Hall Meeting, an overflow crowd of over 100 listened intently as Marc Babsin of Emerald Fund showed,described, and explained current plans for redevelopment of the Oakland campus of California College of Arts (CCA).  The campus, located on the east side of Broadway just north of the half-constructed "Shops at the Ridge" project (currently being rethought by Southern California developer TRC, Inc.) presently serves incoming CCA students before they "graduate" to CCA's expanding San Francisco campus.  Two years ago, CCA announc

The RCPC Land Use Committee will meet this Wednesday, December 26th starting at 7:30 PM in the upstairs meeting room of the Rockridge Branch Library on College Ave.  The meeting will be open to the public.

There will be two items on the agenda:

A full-house crowd attended the RCPC- Oakland League of Women Voters joint Town Hall on October 4th at the Rockridge Library.   Kathleen Cha, the Oakland League's communications director and a veteran presenter, went through the state and local ballot measures that will be on the ballot November 6th.  She briefly summarized what each measure was about, told what groups were supporting and opposing each measure, and gave the major pros and cons for eah measure.

It's August, when people take vacations, and not much tends to happen.  With that in mind, the August 22nd land use committee has been cancelled.

The next regular meeting will be Wed., September 26th, when we'll hear an update on plans for the reuse of the California College of Art's Oakland campus.  

Last Thursday, June 14th, RCPC and the Greater Rockridge Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council co-hosted their annual Town Hall meeting.  The special guest speaker is the new Oakland Police Department district commander for the area of Oakland that includes Rockridge, Captain Chris Bolton.  In addition, RCPC's segment included a discussion of bicycle riding on College Avenue sidewalks and what (if anything) to do about it, as well as other Rockridge transportation issues.

Videos from that Town Hall have now been posted for viewing on YouTube. 

On April 19th, 2018, RCPC held its annual meeting and April Town Hall at the Rockridge Branch Library.  A total of twenty-nine Rockridge residents signed in for the election, above the minimum quorum requirement of twenty-five.  An additional eight Rockridge residents voted on Saturday at a polling place in front of the library.  At the meeting, the five candidates for the Board of Directors: Ashley Cruz, M.C.

There wasn’t quite the full house that had greeted the January Town Hall, but the March Town Hall audience, coming to hear a follow-up report on the Rockridge BART Station Ford GoBike bikeshare station, as well as new enforcement plans for Rockridge’s many Residential Permit Parking areas, was still plentiful, and they got lots of information from the meeting.