Saturday, March 23, 2019
Tentative Agenda set for March Land Use Committee meeting.

The meeting's agenda will tentatively include presentation and discussion of revised plans for a four-story [density bonus] mixed-use project at 5346 College Ave  (next to McNally's Irish Pub - current building is a one-story bungalow converted to commercial use).  May also include a short update on Rockridge Housing Study and proposed April Town Hall land use topic.

Saturday, January 19, 2019
Developer presents plans for CCA Oakland campus redevelopment

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

Monday, January 14, 2019
TOWN HALL: REDEVELOPMENT OF CCA, BYLAWS VOTE
AGENDA:
 
1. Redevelopment of the California College of the Arts (CCA) Oakland campus. 
Public presentation + discussion of plans.
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Agenda for December 26th Land Use Committee Meeting

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:

Sunday, October 21, 2018
Special Town Hall - 15th Assembly District Candidates' Night - video now available on YouTube!

There was a packed auditorium at College Preparatory School on the evening of October 18th to hear a candidate forum featuring the two candidates for the California Assembly 15th District:  Jovanka Beckles and Buffy Wicks.  The forum was moderated by the Oakland League of Women Voters and also co-sponsored by the East Bay Housing Organizations.

Monday, October 8, 2018
RCPC-Oakland League of Women Voters Joint Election Town Hall - Ballot Measures Pro & Con

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.

Monday, October 1, 2018
RCPC September Town Hall - Rockridge Transportation Issues

A sizeable crowd gathered at the Rockridge Library meeting room on September 20th to hear speakers address numerous Rockridge transportation issues.  While there was no official representative of Oakland's Department of Transportation ("OakDOT") present, a variety of speakers, including RCPC's transportation committee chair, Alden Conner, provided information on topics ranging from the reconfiguration of the Rockridge BART's Ford Gobike bikeshare station to mini-roundabouts on Shafter Ave.

Wednesday, August 22, 2018
August Land Use Committee meeting cancelled

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.  

Saturday, July 21, 2018
July 2018 Land Use Committee Meeting agenda

Here's the agenda for the Land Use Committee meeting for July 25, 2018

The meeting will start at 7:30 PM in the upstairs meeting room of the Rockridge Branch Library, 5366 College Ave.

Sunday, June 17, 2018
RCPC-NCPC Joint Town Hall Video Posted on YouTube

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. 

Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Land Use Committee Meeting tonight (June 23, 2018)

The RCPC Land Use Committee will hold a short (1/2 hour) meeting tonight (Wed., May 23, 2018) at 7:30 PM in the upstairs meeting room of the Rockridge Branch Library.  Meeting is open to the public.

Agenda:

1)  Review/discussion of results from College Ave. housing survey (copy attached)

2) Name committee vice chair/acting chair to conduct June 27th Land Use Committee meeting [preliminnary agenda - presentation by Nestle/Dreyer of proposed changes to Dreyers retail store].

Saturday, May 5, 2018
RCPC Annual Meeting and April Town Hall - Rockridge Transportation Projects

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.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Latest (4/18/18) Update on SB 827

With opposition to their bill appearing both wide and strong, Senators Scott Wiener (D-S.F.) and Nancy Skinner (D-Oakland/Berkeley) backpedaled significantly on their bill to mandate upzoning near transit stations and along transit corridors.  However, it was apparently not enough.  SB 827's first committee hearing, before the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, happened April 17th.  While the results of that hearing were not yet available on the Legislature's website, News

Sunday, April 1, 2018
March RCPC Town Hall - BART bikeshare Station and More

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.

Thursday, March 22, 2018
Update on Senators Wiener's and Skinner's new housing upzone bill

The February Rockridge News featured an article on Senators Scott Wiener's (D-San Francisco) and Nancy Skinner's (D-Oakland-Berkeley) bill, which would mandate residential upzoning near transit stations and major transit line stops statewide.  Faced with significant opposition to their bill, they have added a series of amendments.  (The attached file shows the bill's amended language as of March 1, 2018.)

Wednesday, March 7, 2018
March RCPC Town Hall - BART bikeshare Station and More

Following up on a commitment made at the January RCPC Town Hall Meeting.

Thursday, February 8, 2018
Update on Rockridge BART bikeshare station location

Following up on a commitment made at the January RCPC Town Hall meeting, representatives of BART, the City, and Motivate (the bikeshare provider) are beginning the process of re-evaluating possible sites for a bikeshare station for the Ford GoBike bikeshare program.  The program is cosponsored by the City, Motivate, and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and bikeshare stations are being located in many cities throughout the Bay Area.  The Rockridge BART station location is a key location within Rockridge, with space for up to 35 bikes.

Friday, January 26, 2018
New bill by Senators Wiener & Skinner would transform Rockridge (and the East Bay

Following up on their success last year in passing SB 35 (see Land Use Committee Update article for January 2018), State Senators Scott Wiener (San Francisco) and Nancy Skinner (Oakland/Berkeley) have introduced a new bill, SB 827, intended to address California's housing crisis.  The bill would create a "transit-rich housing bonus" that would apply to areas near transit stations or "high quality transit corridors" (bus service at least every 15 minutes during peak travel hours).  In those areas, local zoning height limits would be replaced by height limits

Thursday, January 25, 2018
January RCPC Town Hall draws a large crowd

An overflow crowd filled the Rockridge Library's meeting room on the evening of January 24th to hear about a variety of topics, mostly related to transportation.  The topic included the removal and replacement of trees around the Rockridge BART station that had been identified as hazards, placing min-roundabouts along Shafter Avenue in conjunction with its repaving this Spring, the location of Ford Go-bike bikeshare stations around Rockridge, including in front of the Firestorm tile mural at the Rockridge BART station, and an update on a condominium project put forward by Signature

Sunday, January 21, 2018
Agenda for January 24th Land Use Committee Meeting

The Land Use Committee's January 24th meeting will be held, beginning at 7:30 PM, at the upstairs meeting room of the Rockridge Branch Library on College Ave. at Manila St.  The agenda will focus on the ongoing Rockridge Housing Study and include the following: