Northern Alameda Group

The Northern Alameda County Group represents members from Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland, Piedmont, and San Leandro. We meet on the fourth Monday of the month at 7 pm. at 525 29th St., which is the back of the red church, St. Augustine's, on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland.

Group chair is Andy Katz at (510)220-1122 or Andykatz -at- sonic.net

Conservation chair is Arthur Boone at (510) 910-6451 or ARBoone3 -at- yahoo.com

The Group focuses on making our cities more livable so that people will prefer to live in them, rather than in housing projects in distant green lands. Some recent and continuing issues are:

• Oakland Uptown proposed park and streetscape;
• reuse of Oakland Army Base;
• Oak to Ninth proposal for the Oakland Estuary (see article, page xxx);
• revisions to the Berkeley Creek Ordinance;
• promotion of multi-family housing in Alameda;
• Downtown Berkeley UC hotel complex.