December 17, 2025
Dear Members of the Board and General Manager,
We are writing on behalf of a group of residents who live nearby the Claremont Country Club. We greatly value the beauty of the course, its long history in Oakland, and its role as a green space that enhances our community. However, we are increasingly concerned about the growing body of scientific research linking routine pesticide and herbicide applications on golf courses…

November 15, 2024
The Parties to this Agreement are the Jewish Community Center East Bay (JCCEB), the Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC), and the unincorporated neighborhood association Chabot Village (CV). This is a community benefits agreement regarding JCCEB’s application for City of Oakland conditional use permits (Case File No. PLN23117) approved at the City Planning Commission meeting of November 6, 2024 (Planning Commission Decision)….

August 9, 2024
RCPC supports development of additional housing in our community, particularly affordable housing, and supports the core elements of the proposed program of 88 apartments with 20% of the units affordable to low- and moderate-income residents, above active street-front retail on College Avenue. We do have reservations about the large amount of space set aside for nonresidential uses. RCPC has not yet taken a position on this project…

June 27, 2024
Taylor, Wiley, and Keasling represent property owner, Mr. John Allen (“Applicant”) with respect to property located at 5295 College Avenue (APN 014-124901301) (“Project Sit”). The Applicant respectfully submits the attached Senate Bill 330 (“SB 330”) mixed-use development project (“Project”) consisting of 88 multifamily units and 43,050 square feet of commercial space…

April 28, 2024
The Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC) strongly supports the sale of the 6230 Claremont Avenue property for a 100% affordable housing development project. RCPC has expressed its general support for welcoming new residents and new housing to our wonderful neighborhood, but we are particularly supportive of desperately needed affordable housing here in Rockridge. We are also sending you a copy of our January 10, 2023 letter to the City of Oakland supporting the recently completed Housing Element of the General Plan….

June 22, 2023
The Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC) writes to express our opposition to the proposed closure of the case at 6039 College Avenue (and/or related to the adjacent site of 6029 College Avenue). RCPC is an established neighborhood organization which has been advocating for Rockridge residents on issues of development, transportation, and quality of life to the City of Oakland and Alameda County for nearly forty years. Our 13-member board of directors are elected by the citizens of Rockridge who live within its boundaries…

January 10, 2023
The Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC) is supportive of the latest draft of the City of Oakland Housing Element and urges the Planning Commission to recommend adoption of the Element to the City Council, with one recommended change and one noted concern as outlined below. RCPC is appreciative of the addition of the Ridge site to the Element’s inventory of housing sites. We are supportive of the upzoning of the College Avenue Transit Corridor to facilitate potential development of upper story housing there in the future…

August 25, 2022
The RCPC is generally very supportive of your efforts to develop a substantial amount of housing on the former CCA site. We appreciate the evolution of the design to maintain a significant, publicly accessible open space as a primary feature of the plan and the adaptive reuse of Macky Hall and the Carriage House as principal contributors to the character of that open space…

June 13, 2022
Thank you very much for the opportunity to comment on the 2023 - 2029 Oakland General Plan Housing Element Update. As a statement of general principles, the Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC) wants to acknowledge that the State of California is experiencing a housing crisis of historic proportions and that Oakland as a City and Rockridge as a neighborhood within the City must do their parts to ease this crisis…