Redistricting 2021 – Community Outreach Organizations (April 2021) Community Based
Berkeley City Club Conservancy
Berkeley Community Fund
Berkeley Copwatch
Berkeley Creative Wellness Center
Berkeley Democratic Club
Berkeley Drop-in Center (Coalition for
Alternatives in Mental Health)
Berkeley Earth Day (Vegan Earth Day)
Berkeley Emergency Storm Shelter
Berkeley Finnish Hall
Berkeley Food & Housing Project
Berkeley Food Pantry
Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in
Information Technology
Berkeley Free Clinic
Berkeley Garden Club
Berkeley Geochronology Center
Berkeley Hadassah
Berkeley High School Development Group
Berkeley Hillel Foundation. Jewish Student
Community Center
Berkeley Historical Plaque Project
Berkeley Historical Society and Museum
Berkeley Holiday Fund
Berkeley Humane
Berkeley Ironworks
Community Based
Berkeley Juneteenth Association, Inc.
Berkeley Law Foundation
Berkeley Lions Club
Berkeley Mental Health - Family Youth and
Children's Clinic
Berkeley Needle Exchange Distribution
Berkeley Parents Network
Berkeley Partners for Parks
Berkeley Place Deaf/Hard of Hearing
Project
Berkeley Place, Inc. Casa de la Vida
Berkeley Public Library Foundation
Berkeley Special Education Parents
Network
Berkeley Symphony
Berkeley Therapy Institute
Berkeley Youth Alternatives
Black Women Organized for Political
Action Berkeley/Oakland Chapter
(BWOPA)
Bonita House
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
California Writers Club - Berkeley Branch
Center for Accessible Technology
Center for Independent Living
Chaparral House
Community Energy Services Corporation
Community Based
Disaster Supply Cache Network
Dorothy Day House
East Bay Asian Youth Center
East Bay Center for the Blind
East Bay Community Law Center
East Bay Community Mediation
Easy Does It
Ecology Center
Ed Roberts Campus
Eden Council for Hope and Opportunity
(ECHO Housing)
Ephesian Children's Center
Family Violence Law Center
Fred Finch Youth Center
Friends of the Fountain and Walk
Gray Panthers
Housing Groups
Housing Rights
Inter-City Services
Japanese-American Services of the East
Bay
Kiwanis Club of Berkeley
Latinos Unidos/ United In Action
LeConte Neighborhood Association
Lifelong Medical Care
Multicultural Institute
Redistricting 2021 – Community Outreach Organizations (April 2021) Community Based
Needle Exchange
New Bridge Foundation
Odd Fellows Temple, Berkeley Lodge #270
Options Recovery Services
Pacific Center for Human Growth
Rebuilding Together Albany-Berkeley-
Emeryville
Resources for Community Development
Rotary Club of Berkeley
RISE
Rubicon
Satellite Affordable Housing Associates
Satellite Housing
SEEDS Community Resolution Center
Senior Center, North Berkeley
Senior Center, South Berkeley
Senior Center, West Berkeley
Sierra Club (San Francisco Bay Chapter)
Spiral Gardens
The Bread Project
Through The Looking Glass
United for Health
United in Action (Collaborative of 10+
Orgs)
West Berkeley Blogger
West Berkeley Lions Club
Community Based
Women's Daytime Drop-In Center
Youth Spirit Artworks
Youth, Engagement, Advocacy, and
Housing
YWCA Berkeley/Oakland
Zonta Club of Berkeley/North Bay
Education
Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine
College, Berkeley (AIMC)
Associated Students of the University of
CA
Berkeley Adult School - BUSD
Berkeley Alumni Association
Berkeley City College
Berkeley City College
Berkeley Hills Nursery School
Berkeley Public Schools Fund
Berkeley Unified School District
Nia House
Public Tables
Stiles Hall
Student Organizations
UC Berkeley Disabled Student Union
Education
University Avenue Association
University of California, Berkeley. ASUC
Student Legal Clinic
University of California, Berkeley.
Boost@BerkeleyHaas Alternate Name:
Young Entrepreneurs at Haas (YEAH)
UC Berkeley: Cal Camps and Youth
Programs
UC Berkeley: Early Academic Outreach
Program (EAOP)
UC Berkeley: Intercollegiate Athletics. Cal
Athletic Camps
UC Berkeley: International House
UC Berkeley: Local Government and
Community Relations Office
UC Berkeley: Pre-College Trio Programs-
Upward Bound
UC Berkeley: Public Service Center
UC Berkeley: Recreational Sports. Cal Rec
Club
UC Berkeley: Recreational Sports. Cal
STAR Program
UC Berkeley: Recreational Sports. Fitness
and Wellness
University of California, Berkeley.
Recreational Sports. Intramural Sports
Redistricting 2021 – Community Outreach Organizations (April 2021) Education
University of California, Berkeley. School of
Public Health. Labor Occupational Health
Program and Resource Center
University of California, Berkeley. Student
Speakers Bureau (IHSSB)
Voluntary Optometric Services to
Humanity (VOSH). Berkeley Chapter
Faith Based
Berkeley Black Ecumenical Ministers
Association
Berkeley Baha'I Community
Berkeley Buddhist Monastery
Berkeley Buddhist Priory
Berkeley Buddhist Temple (Satsuki)
Berkeley Eckankar Center
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian
Universalists
Berkeley Friends Meeting (Quakers)
Berkeley Organizing Congregations for
Action
Berkeley Psychic Institute (BPI).
Berkeley Shambahala Center
Berkeley M.T.O. Shahmaghsoudi Center:
School of Islamic Sufism
Berkeley Zen Center
Faith Based
Chabad Jewish Center of Berkeley
Church Without Walls
First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley
Lutheran Church of the Cross (YEAH
Shelter)
McGee Avenue Baptist Church
South Berkeley Community Church
Neighborhood
Alcatraz Avenue Neighborhood Association
Association for Sports Field Users (ASFU)
Bateman Neighborhood Association
Berkeley Disaster Prep Neighborhood
Network
Berkeley Property Owners Association
(BPOA)
Berkeley Property Owners Association
(BPOA)
Berkeley Property Owners Association
(BPOA)
Berkeley Safe Neighborhoods Committee
Dwight-Hillside Neighborhood Association
Halcyon Neighborhood Association
Live Oak Cordornices Creek Neighborhood
Assoc
Neighborhood
Monterey/Hopkins Neighborhood
Association
North East Berkeley Association
Panoramic Hill Association
Parks Hills Homes Association
San Pablo Neighborhood Council
South Berkeley Neighborhood
Development Corporation
South Berkeley Neighborhood
Development Corporation
Thousand Oaks Neighborhood Association
Vicente Canyon Neighborhood Association
West Berkeley Neighborhood
Development Corporation
Willard Neighborhood Association
Claremont/Elmwood Neighborhood
Association
Cordonices Glen Neighborhood
Association
Friends of Five Creeks
North East Berk Association
Panoramic Hill Association
San Pablo Neighborhood Council
San Pablo Neighborhood Council
Redistricting 2021 – Community Outreach Organizations (April 2021) Sports and Recreation
Albany Berkeley Girls Softball League
Albany-Berkeley Soccer Club (ABSC)
Bay Area Outreach and Recreation
Program (BORP)
Berkeley All Blues Women's Rugby Club
Berkeley Association of Sports Field Users
(ASFU)
Berkeley Ballet Theater
Berkeley Bicycle Club (Berkeley Hills Road
Race)
Berkeley Bike Station
Berkeley Chess School
Berkeley City Ballet
Berkeley Echo Lake Camp Association
(BELCA)
Berkeley Lacrosse Club
Berkeley Lawn Bowling Club
Berkeley Moving Arts
Berkeley Paddling and Rowing Club (BPRC)
Berkeley Path Wanderers Association
Berkeley Rowing Club
Berkeley Tennis Club
Berkeley Water Ski Club
Berkeley Yacht Club
Sports and Recreation
Berkeley Yoga Center
Cal Adventures
Cal Sailing Club
Waterside Workshops
YMCA
Tell us about your community!
Help shape the future of Berkeley’s Council districts
Every ten years, U.S. Census data is used to redraw Berkeley’s Council district boundaries. This ensures the districts are balanced for changes in population. Berkeley’s Independent Redistricting Commission (composed of 13 volunteers) wants to hear from you on how the boundaries should be drawn. Complete this form to tell the Commission about your community of interest
so it can be considered
in the redistricting process.
What is a “community of interest”?
A community of interest is a group of people in the same geographic area who share common social and economic interests.
Are there things that make your community unique when compared to surrounding areas? What characteristics do you share with your neighbors? How would you describe the area to a friend? For example, some characteristics a community can share are:
• Resources
• Identity
• Business districts
• Education
• Ancestry
• Shared transportation
• Cultural centers
• History
• Economic interests
• Language
• Common neighborhood activities
• Neighborhoods
Redistricting laws also prohibit a few things from being included when drawing district boundaries – such as political parties and candidates, or where current councilmembers live.
Use our “Community of Interest Form” on the next page to describe your community. You can add more pages if needed. Your input is essential and we welcome your comments.
You can attend public meetings to give more input on this topic. Visit our webpage for dates and times: cityofberkelely.info/redistricting. You can also email the Commission at [email protected].
Community of Interest Form
Optional – Name / Email:
Which district do you live in? If you’re not sure, write your address and we’ll look it up:
District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8 What are the common interests in your community? Describe how they are important:
Explain the geographical location of your community of interest. What are the boundaries? How is your community impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council? What else would you like to tell us about your community? Add more p ages if you need to.
Questions or comments? Submit this form by XXXXXXXXXX:
We want to hear from you. Email the Berkeley
Independent Redistricting Commission at
[email protected] or visit our
webpage at www.cityofberkeley.info/redistricting/.
Email: [email protected]
In person: Call (510) 981‐6908 to ma
ke an
appointment.
Mail: City Clerk Department, 2180 Milvia
Street, 1st Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704
Community of Interest
Berkeley City Charter – Article V, Section 9.5 (f)(2):
For purposes of this subsection “communities of interest” shall mean the following: A community of interest is a contiguous population which shares common social and
economic interests that should be included within a single district for purposes of its e ffective and fair
representation. Such shared interests include but are not limited to those common to areas in which the people
share similar living standards, use the same
transportation facilities, have similar work opportunities, or have access to the same media of communication
relevant to the election process, as well as
neighborhoods, students, organized student housing,
shared age, and racial demographics. Communities of
interest shall not include relationships with political parties, incumbents, or political candidates.
The City of Berkeley is convening a Redistricting Commission. The 13-member Commission of Berkeley residents is tasked with redrawing the City Council district boundaries. As a Commissioner, you will engage the public, provide your own input, and ultimately adopt an updated map of the City Council District boundaries. If you are a resident of Berkeley and meet a few other requirements, you are eligible. Get involved and play an important role in elections in the City of Berkeley!
GET READY!
TO BE ON THE COMMISSION
www.cityofberkeley.info/redistricting
[email protected]
510-981-6900
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The City of Berkeley is convening
a Redistricting Commission. The
13-member Commission of Berkeley
residents is tasked with redrawing the
City Council district boundaries. As a
Commissioner, you will engage the
public, provide your own input, and
ultimately adopt an updated map of the
City Council District boundaries. If you
are a resident of Berkeley and meet a few
other requirements, you are eligible. Get
involved and play an important role in
elections in the City of Berkeley!
www.cityofberkeley.info/redistricting
[email protected]
510-981-6900
GET READY!
REDISTRICTING STARTS SOON
GET READY!
REDISTRICTING STARTS SOON
WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION?
The webpage www.cityofberkeley.info/
redistricting has more information. You can
also send your questions to the City Clerk
Department: [email protected]
www.cityofberkeley.info/redistricting
[email protected]
510-981-6900
Applications are due October 9, 2020
Applications are due October 9, 2020
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WHAT IS REDISTRICTING?
The City of Berkeley utilizes a district-based
system of electing councilmembers. There
are 8 Council districts and the Mayor is
elected at-large [by all Berkeley voters]. In
2016, Berkeley voters amended the City's
Charter for drawing electoral boundaries
from the City Council to an independent
Redistricting Commission. The measure's
intent was to establish a process open to
the public, that meets legal requirements,
and is conducted with integrity, fairness
and without personal or political
connections.
As a Commissioner, you will be part of
a 13-member independent body with
broad community representation. The
Commission will engage the public, and
adopt an updated map of City Council
district boundaries.
Department, City Attorney's Office, the
Department of Information Technology
and the City Manager's Office.
Don't worry, you don't have to be a
cartographer!
WHAT'S NEXT?
Commissioners are selected January
2021. The Commission meets for the
next several months and then adopts a
redistricting plan by February 1, 2022.
AM I ELIGIBLE TO SERVE?
You need to be a Berkeley resident to serve
on the Commission. You're ineligible if you
are a paid City of Berkeley staff member
[or family member of one'] a consultant or
contract with the City, or have held elective
office in the last 2 years. There are a few other
qualifications, so review the Redistricting Plan
on the website for further details.
I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT
REDISTRICTING BUT WANT TO LEARN, WILL
THERE BE STAFF SUPPORT?
Yes, the Redistricting Commission will
have a lot of support. The Commission will
receive staff support from the City Clerk
Applications are due October 9, 2020
www.cityofberkeley.info/redistricting
[email protected]
510-981-6900
APPLY NOW
TO BE ON THE COMMISSION
You're invited to apply to be part of a group of 13 Berkeley residents tasked with redrawing the City Council district boundaries. As a Commissioner, you will engage the public, provide your own input, and ultimately adopt an updated map of the City Council District boundaries. Applications are due October 9, 2020. If you are a resident of Berkeley and meet a few other requirements, you are eligible to apply. Get involved and play an important role in elections in the City of Berkeley!
www.cityofberkeley.info/redistricting
[email protected]
510-981-6900
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You’re invited to apply to be part of a
group of 13 Berkeley residents tasked
with redrawing the City Council district
boundaries. As a Commissioner, you
will engage the public, provide your
own input, and ultimately adopt an
updated map of the City Council District
boundaries. Applications are due October
9, 2020. If you are a resident of Berkeley
and meet a few other requirements, you
are eligible to apply. Get involved and
play an important role in elections in the
City of Berkeley!
www.cityofberkeley.info/redistricting
[email protected]
510-981-6900
APPLY NOW
TO BE ON THE COMMISSION
APPLY NOW
TO BE ON THE COMMISSION
WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION?
The webpage www.cityofberkeley.info/
redistricting has more information. You can
also send your questions to the City Clerk
Department: [email protected]
www.cityofberkeley.info/redistricting
[email protected]
510-981-6900
Applications are due October 9, 2020
Applications are due October 9, 2020
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APPLY NOW
TO BE ON THE COMMISSION
WHAT IS REDISTRICTING?
The City of Berkeley utilizes a district-based
system of electing councilmembers. There
are 8 Council districts and the Mayor is
elected at-large [by all Berkeley voters]. In
2016, Berkeley voters amended the City's
Charter for drawing electoral boundaries
from the City Council to an independent
Redistricting Commission. The measure's
intent was to establish a process open to
the public, that meets legal requirements,
and is conducted with integrity, fairness
and without personal or political
connections. As a Commissioner, you will
be part of a 13-member independent body
with broad community representation.
The Commission will engage the public,
and adopt an updated map of City Council
district boundaries.
Department of Information Technology
and the City Manager's Office.
Don't worry, you don't have to be a
cartographer!
WHAT'S NEXT?
Applications are due October 9, 2020.
Commissioners are selected January
2021. The Commission meets for the
next several months and then adopts a
redistricting plan by February 1, 2022.
WHO CAN APPLY?
You must be a Berkeley resident to serve on
the commission. You're ineligible if you are a
paid City of Berkeley staff member [or family
member of one] or have held elective office
in the last 2 years. There are a few other
qualifications, so review the Redistricting Plan
on the website for further details.
I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT
REDISTRICTING BUT WANT TO LEARN,
SHOULD I STILL APPLY?
Yes, the Redistricting Commission will
have a lot of support. The Commission will
receive staff support from the City Clerk
Department, City Attorney's Office, the
Applications are due October 9, 2020
www.cityofberkeley.info/redistricting
[email protected]
510-981-6900
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Date Received
City Clerk Department
2180 Milvia Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 981-6900
www.cityofberkeley.info
[email protected]
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APPLICATION FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION
Introduct
ion
The City of Berkeley is seeking Berkeley residents to apply for the Independent Redistricting Commission. This 13-member body will be responsible for setting Berkeley’s electoral boundaries for City Council districts following the 2020 Census.
Eligibility
T
here are limitations to who can serve on this commission. Please review Appendix A of this application to verify that you are eligible before you apply. You will be asked questions to verify your eligibility on
SECTION 1. APPLICANT INFORMATION
FIRST NAME M.I. LAST NAME
RESIDENCE (HOME) ADDRESS (STREET, CITY, ZIP)
EMAIL ADDRESS PHONE NUMBER
COUNCIL DISTRICT
SECTION 2. DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY
1. Gender: Female Male Nonbinary Prefer not to say
2. Are you currently a student? No Yes
3. Which racial/ethnic category do you most closely identify with? Select one category:
WHITE (Not of Hispanic origin): All persons having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East.
BLACK (Not of Hispanic origin): All persons having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. HISPANIC: All persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central American, South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
ASIAN / PACIFIC ISLANDER: All persons having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands. This area includes, for example, China, Japan, Korea, and Samoa.
AMERICAN INDIAN / ALASKAN NATIVE: All persons having origins in any of the original peoples of North America, and who maintain cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition.
OTHE
R / BI-RACIAL: Persons who do not identify with any of the above categories or who have mixed or unknown racial/ethnic origins.
APPLICATION FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION
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SECTION 3. ELIGIBILITY QUESTIONNAIRE YES NO
Are you a resident of the City of Berkeley?
Will you be 18 years of age or older at the time you submit your application? Have you been a candidate for the office of Mayor or Councilmember within two years? Are you (or have you been in the last two years) Berkeley Mayor, Councilmember, Auditor, School Board Director, or Rent Stabilization Board Commissioner?
Are you the immediate family of the Mayor or any Councilmember? Are you the immediate family of any staff to the Mayor or Councilmember? Are you an employee of the City of Berkeley?
Are you performing paid services under a contract with the City of Berkeley (including subcontractors)?
Have you served as an officer, paid staff, or paid consultant of a campaign committee of a candidate for Mayor or Councilmember within the past two years?
Are you currently, or have you been within the last two years, a paid staff member or unpaid intern to the Mayor or any Councilmember?
Are you disqualified from serving in public office pursuant to Government Code sections 1021, 1021.5, 1770, or the Constitution and laws of the State of California?
Do you currently serve on a City of Berkeley board or commission? If you currently serve on a City of Berkeley board or commission, are you willing to resign from the board or commission if selected and agree to not serve on another City of Berkeley Board or commission during the term of your office on the Independent Redistricting Commission?
N/A
Have you made disclosable monetary or non-monetary contributions to a candidate for Mayor or Councilmember in the City of Berkeley within the past four years? If yes, please disclose the amount(s) of the contribution(s) and to which candidate(s) in the space provided on the next page.
Do you understand that if you serve on the Independent Redistricting Commission, you are ineligible
for employment as a paid staff member for the
Mayor or any Councilmember or to serve on a City of Berkeley board or commission for a two-year period?
APPLICATION FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION
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SECTION 4. DISCLOSABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO MAYOR OR COUNCIL CANDIDATES
WITHIN THE PAST FOUR YEARS
If you have made disclosable monetary or non-monetary contributions to a candidate for Mayor or Councilmember in the City of Berkeley within the past four years, disclose the amount(s) of the contribution(s) and to which candidate(s) here. You may attach additional pages if needed.
SECTION 4. WRITTEN STATEMENT
Provide a written statement of qualifications not longer than three hundred (300) words expressing why you believe you are qualified to serve on the Commission. Please attach an additional
page if needed. (statement to be used for at-large appointment process)
APPLICATION FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY
INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION
Rev. 2020-07-30 Page 4 of 9
SECTION 5. CERTIFICATION
I consent to a background check if appointed. (Promptly after reviewing the background check to determine eligibility, the City Clerk will either return it to the applicant or destroy it.) Furthermore, I hereby certify under penalty of perjury that the information provided on this application is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
_____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________
APPLICANT SIGNATURE/VERIFICATION DATE SIGNED
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Applications are accepted beginning September 8, 2020. Complete pages 1-4 and submit no later than Friday, October 9, 2020. Submit hard copy applications to the City Clerk Dept., 2180 Milvia St., 1st Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704 or submit via e-mail to [email protected].
APPENDIX A – INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING
COMMISSION ELIGIBILITY WORKSHEET
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Are you a resident of the City of Berkeley and 18 years of age or older? Yes No (ineligible)
Have you been a qualified candidate for Mayor or Councilmember within the past two years? No Yes (ineligible)
Are you (or have you been in the last two years) Berkeley Mayor, Councilmember, Auditor, School Board Director, or Rent Board Stabilization Board Commissioner? No Yes (ineligible)
Are you the immediate family member of the Mayor or any Councilmember, or immediate family member of any staff to the Mayor or any Councilmember?
No Yes (ineligible)
Are you employed by the City of Berkeley?
No Yes (ineligible)
Are you performing paid services under contract with the City of Berkeley (including subcontractor employees)? No Yes (ineligible)
Have you served as an officer, paid staff, or paid consultant of a campaign committee of a candidate for Berkeley Mayor or Councilmember within the past two years? No Yes (ineligible)
Are you currently, or have you been within the last two years, a paid staff member or unpaid intern to the Berkeley Mayor or any Councilmember?
No Yes (ineligible)
Are you disqualified from serving in public office pursuant to Government Code sections 1021, 1021.5, or 1770, and the Constitution and laws of the State of California? No Yes (ineligible)
Do you serve on a City of Berkeley board or commission appointed by the Mayor or Councilmembers? No Yes Eligible. However, you must resign from the board or commission if selected and agree not to serve on the City’s other boards or commissions during your term on the IRC.
Have you made disclosable monetary or non-monetary contributions to a candidate for Mayor or Councilmember in the City of Berkeley within the past four years? No Yes Eligible. However, you must disclose those contributions under penalty of perjury.
Congratulations – you are eligible to serve on the Independent Redistricting Commission!
APPENDIX B – INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION
DEFINITIONS
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“Immediate Family” means a spouse, domestic partner, cohabitant, child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, stepparent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent, great grandparent, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, stepsibling, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, or first cousin (that is, a child of an aunt or uncle). (BMC §2.10.020)
“Employee” means an employee of the city including a person in any of the following categories:
ACTING EMPLOYEE: An employee who has been appointed to fill a vacancy in any department head or assistant department head position in compliance with these Rules.
AT-WILL EMPLOYEE: An employee who is excluded from the career service by BMC Section
4.04.120 of the Personnel Ordinance and serves at the will of the appointing authority. At -will employees can be dismissed at any time without cause.
EMERGENCY EMPLOYEE: An employee appointed to meet the requirements of an emergency condition. Such appointment may be made without regard to the regulations as to appointments in these rules.
FLSA EXEMPT EMPLOYEE: An employee who is exempt from the overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") and does not receive overtime pay or compensatory leave.
FLSA NON-EXEMPT EMPLOYEE: An employee who is covered by the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") and receives overtime pay or compensatory leave.
FULL TIME EMPLOYEE: An employee who is appointed to a position that works the normal number of working hours as defined by the City.
INTERMITTENT EMPLOYEE: An at- will employee who works on an hourly basis on call at irregular intervals or without a set pattern on an intermittent basis.
UNREPRESENTED EMPLOYEE: An employee who is not a member of a designated representation unit that is represented by an employee organization formally certified by the City.
“Contractor” means any person or persons, firm, partnership, corporation, or combination thereof which enters into a contract with the City of Berkeley for construction or improvements to be performed, or for a franchise, concession or lease of property, or for goods, services or supplies to be purchased, at the expense of the City of Berkeley, or to be paid out of moneys deposited in the treasury, or out of trust moneys under the control or collected by the City of Berkeley. (BMC §13.26.020)
“Sub-Contractor” means a person or business which has a contract (as an "independent contractor" and not an employee) to provide some portion of the work or services on a project which the “Contractor” as defined above has agreed to perform. (BMC §9.04.026)
APPENDIX B – INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION
DEFINITIONS
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“Disclosable monetary or non-monetary contribution” means a gift, subscription, loan, advance, deposit, pledge, forgiveness of indebtedness, payment of a debt by a third party, contract, agreement, or promise of money or anything of value or other obligation, whether or not legally enforceable, made directly or indirectly in aid of or in opposition to the nomination or election of one or more candidates or the qualification for the ballot or voter approval of one or more measures. The term "contribution" includes the purchase of tickets for events such as dinners, luncheons, rallies and similar fund-raising events; a candidate’s own money or property used on behalf of his or her candidacy; the granting to a candidate or committee of discounts or rebates not available to the general public; and payments for the services of any person serving on behalf of a candidate or committee, when such payments are not made from contributions the candidate or committee must otherwise report under the terms of this chapter. The term "contribution" further includes any transfer, gift, loan, advance, deposit, forgiveness of indebtedness, payment of a debt by a third party, pledge, contract, agreement, or promise of money or anything of value or other obligation, whether or not legally enforceable, received directly or indirectly by a committee from another committee. The term "contribution" shall not include a gift of service or labor, but shall include service or labor for which a payment is made, nor shall the term "contribution" include a gift of the use of personal or real property where the value of such use is not in excess of fifty dollars, nor shall it include food and beverages the value of which for any one event is no more than fifty dollars. (BMC §2.12.100)
APPENDIX C – STATE CODE REFERENCES
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Government Code Section 1021
A person is disqualified from holding any office upon conviction of designated crimes as specified in the Constitution and laws of the State.
Government Code Section 1021.5
(a) If a public employee is convicted of any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, any bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes arising directly out of his or her official duties as a public employee, he or she shall be disqualified for five years from any public employment, including, but not limited to, employment with a city, county, district, or any other public agency of the state.
(b) The five-year disqualification period described in subdivision (a) shall begin on the later of either of the following:
(1) The date of final conviction.
(2) The date on which the public employee is released from any incarceration.
(c) For purposes of this section, “public employee” means any person employed at will for the purposes of providing services to an elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1, 2013.
Government Code Section 1770
An office becomes vacant on the happening of any of the following events before the expiration of the term:
(a) The death of the incumbent.
(b) An adjudication pursuant to a quo warranto proceeding declaring that the incumbent is physically or mentally incapacitated due to disease, illness, or accident, and that there is reasonable cause to believe that the incumbent will not be able to perform the duties of his or her office for the remainder of his or her term. This subdivision shall not apply to offices created by the California Constitution nor to federal or state legislators.
(c) (1) His or her resignation, except as provided in paragraph (2).
(2) In the case of the office of city council member, upon the delivery of a letter of resignation by the resigning council member to the city clerk. The letter of resignation may specify a date on which the resignation will become effective.
(d) His or her removal from office.
(e) His or her ceasing to be an inhabitant of the state, or if the office be local and one for which local residence is required by law, of the district, county, or city for which the officer was chosen or appointed, or within which the duties of his or her office are required to be discharged.
(f) His or her absence from the state without the permission required by law beyond the period allowed by law.
(g) His or her ceasing to discharge the duties of his or her office for the period of three consecutive months, except when prevented by sickness, or when absent from the state with the permission required by law.
(h) His or her conviction of a felony or of any offense involving a violation of his or her official duties. An officer shall be deemed to have been convicted under this subdivision when trial court judgment is entered. For purposes of this subdivision, “trial court judgment” means a judgment by the trial court either sentencing the officer or otherwise upholding and implementing the plea, verdict, or finding.
(i) His or her refusal or neglect to file his or her required oath or bond within the time prescribed.
(j) The decision of a competent tribunal declaring void his or her election or appointment.
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Government Code Section 1770 (continued)
(k) The making of an order vacating his or her office or declaring the office vacant when the officer fails to furnish an additional or supplemental bond.
(l) His or her commitment to a hospital or sanitarium by a court of competent jurisdiction as a drug addict, dipsomaniac, inebriate, or stimulant addict; but in that event the office shall not be deemed vacant until the order of commitment has become final.
(m) (1) The incumbent is listed in the Excluded Parties List System and all of the following subparagraphs apply:
(A) The office is one that the incumbent holds ex officio, by virtue of holding another office, or as an appointee. (B) The appointed or ex officio office is on the governing board of a local agency that is, or may reasonably be expected to be, a participant or principal in a covered transaction, pursuant to federal law. (C) A federal agency head or designee has not granted the incumbent an exception, in writing, permitting the incumbent to participate in a particular covered transaction in which the local agency is, or may reasonably be expected to be, a participant or principal.
(2) For purposes of this subdivision, the following terms have the following meanings:
(A) “Excluded Parties List System” means the list maintained and disseminated by the federal General Services Administration containing names of, and other information about, persons who are debarred, suspended, disqualified, or otherwise excluded from participating in a covered transaction, pursuant to federal law. (B) “Local agency” includes, but is not limited to, a county, whether general law or chartered, city, whether general law or chartered, city and county, school district, municipal corporation, district, political subdivision, or any board, commission, or agency of one of these entities.
(C) “Federal law” includes, but is not limited to, federal regulations adopted pursuant to Section 2455 of Public Law 103- 355 (108 Stat. 3327), Executive Order No. 11738, Executive Order No. 12549, and Executive Order No. 12689. (3) This subdivision shall not apply to an elective office.
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Every ten years after the Census, the City Council district boundaries are redrawn to ensure the districts are balanced for changes in population. Complete this form to tell the Independent Redistricting Commission about your community of interest so it can be considered in the redistricting process.
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A community of interest is a group of people in the same geographic area who share common social and economic interests.
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MAPPING TOOL
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NAME
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EMAIL
DESCRIPTION
City of Berkeley Independent Redistricting Commission
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PUBLIC REDISTRICTING EXERCISE
EMAIL A PHOTO of your
completed map to:
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ONCE COMPLETE
Each of these blocks is drawn within Berkeley’s
existing neighborhoods.
The numbers from the final release of the 2020 US Census as required by the California Fair Maps Act.
THE RULES ABOUT THE BLOCKS
Create a single city council district
or all eight districts using the
population blocks in the map.
New districts should have a
population of around 15,500.
The largest district should be no
more than 1,500 people greater
Write in the population estimates
for each of your drawn districts.
~15,500 Target Population Per District
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Redistricting Outreach Log 2021-2022
# Date Type Topic Distribution
1 8/12/2020 E-mail Application period: Push-through message to Council Mayor and Council 2 8/12/2020 Paid Ad Application period: East Bay Express (Additional run 9/2) Print only 3 8/12/2020 Paid Ad Application period: Tri-City Post (additional run 9/2) Print only 4 8/13/2020 E-msg Application Period Berkeley Library E-Newsletter (105,000) 5 8/13/2020 Paid Ad Application period: Berkeleyside (run through 10/9/2020) Online 6 8/14/2020 E-Mail Application Period 400+ Community Partners 7 8/14/2020 Paid Ad Application period: Berkeley Voice (additional runs 8/21, 8/28, 9/4) Print only 8 8/19/2020 E-Mail Application Period Office of Economic Development Newsletter 9 8/25/2020 Letter Application Period 400+ Community Partners 10 8/27/2020 Paid Ad Application period: Berkeley Times (additional run, 9/10) Print only 11 9/1/2020 Display Application Period Grocery Stores; Laundromats; Public Buildings 12 9/2/2020 E-msg Application Period Berkeley Library E-Newsletter (Spanish) 13 9/3/2020 Paid Ad Application period: Daily Californian Print only 14 9/6/2020 E-msg Application Period Berkeley Library E-Newsletter (105,000) 15 9/7/2020 E-msg Application Period BUSD E-Newsletter (20,000) 16 9/8/2020 E-Mail Application Period 400+ Community Partners; BPL Newsletter; BUSD Newsletter 17 9/8/2020 E-mail Application period: Push-through message to Council Mayor and Council 18 9/8/2020 News Msg Application Period: "Volunteers needed to help Berkeley draw…" Media Outlets; Website; GovDelivery List 19 9/8/2020 Social Media Application period Twitter
20 9/14/2020 Social Media Application period Twitter
21 9/19/2020 Social Media Application period Twitter
22 9/24/2020 Paid Ad Application period: Daily Californian (run through 10/9) Online & Twitter 23 10/5/2020 News Msg Application period: "Apply by October 9" Media Outlets; Website; GovDelivery List 24 10/5/2020 Social Media Application period Nextdoor
25 10/5/2020 Social Media Application period Twitter
26 12/14/2020 Website New IRC Commission webpage published Website 27 1/1/2021 Paid ad Notice of random drawing- Berkeley Voice legal ad P rint only
28 1
/7/2021 News Msg Random drawing of IRC commissioners Media Outlets; Website; GovDelivery List 29 1/11/2021 Social Media Random drawing of IRC commissioners Twitter 30 6/29/2021 Website New public engagement webpage published Website 31 6/30/2021 E-msg Public Hearing #1 Berkeley Library E-Newsletter (105,000) 32 7/1/2021 Media Public Hearing #1 Earned Media in Berkeleyside, Daily Cal, NBC TV News, Patch 33 7/1/2021 News Msg Public Hearing #1 Media Outlets; Website; GovDelivery List Updated 3/17/2022 1 of 4
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# Date Type Topic Distribution
34 7/1/2021 Paid Ad Public Hearing #1: Daily Californian (run through 7/10/2021) Online & Twitter 35 7/2/2021 E-Mail Public Hearing #1 400+ Community Partners 36 7/2/2021 Paid Ad Public Hearing #1: Berkeley Voice Print only 37 7/2/2021 Paid Ad Public Hearing #1: Berkeleyside (run through 7/10/2020) Online 38 7/5/2021 Social Media Public Hearing #1 Twitter
39 7/6/2021 Social Media Public Hearing #1 Nextdoor
40 7/7/2021 Paid Ad Public Hearing #1: East Bay Express Print only 41 7/7/2021 Paid Ad Public Hearing #1: Tri-City Post Print only 42 7/8/2021 Social Media Public Hearing #1 Twitter
43 7/9/2021 Social Media Public Hearing #1 Twitter
44 7/10/2021 Social Media Public Hearing #1 Twitter
45 7/11/2021 Media Independent Redistricting Commission discusses districts, future housing Earned media in Daily Cal 46 7/13/2021 E-Mail Presentation Video; COI Form; Presentation on Demand 400+ Community Partners 47 7/26/2021 E-Mail Online COI Form; Presentation Video 400+ Community Partners 48 8/4/2021 Display COI Form South Berkeley Senior Center 49 8/4/2021 Display COI Form Berkeley Libraries (5)
50 8/4/2021 E-mail COI Form link and video UC Berkeley student groups to distribute to members 51 8/10/2021 E-mail COI Form link and video BUSD PTA Board - for distribution 52 8/16/2021 Display City Recreation Programs 2 City pools, Recreation Admin office and Marina office (4) 53 8/19/2021 E-msg COI Form and Video Rosa Parks Elementary PTA newsletter 54 8/21/2021 In-Person Heart-to-Heart Health Faire (San Pablo Park) South and West Berkeley Community 55 9/3/2021 In-Person Cal Football Kickoff (Downtown) Downtown; UC population; students 56 9/12/2021 In-Person Solano Avenue Sidewalk a-Faire North Berkeley Community; Broader Berkeley Community 57 9/15/2021 E-msg October 2 Public Hearing BUSD A+ eNewsletter - 25,000 recipients 58 9/15/2021 Letter Public Hearing #2 and hardcopy COI forms Targeted Community Organizations (20) 59 9/21/2021 E-Mail Redistricting Opportunities for Students BHS Teachers 60 9/23/2021 E-Mail October 2 Public Hearing 400+ Community Organizations 61 9/23/2021 News Msg Community Message for 10/2 Hearing Website, Media List, GovDelivery Subscriber E-Mail 62 9/23/2021 Pass-Thru City Council Constituent Newsletters Mayor and Council E-Mail Lists 63 9/23/2021 Pass-Thru October 2 Public Hearing UC Students via ASUC e-mail lists 64 9/23/2021 Pass-Thru October 2 Public Hearing UC Students via Academic Department Newsletters 65 9/23/2021 Social Media October 2 Public Hearing Twitter 66 9/23/2021 Social Media October 2 Public Hearing Nextdoor Updated 3/17/2022 2 of 4
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# Date Type Topic Distribution
67 9/24/2021 E-Mail October 2 Public Hearing Targeted Community Organizations (30) 68 9/24/2021 Paid ad Public Hearing #2 : Berkeley Voice Full page (9/24 publication) Print only 69 9/24/2021 Paid Ad Public Hearing #2: Berkeleyside (runs through 10/1) Online 70 9/26/2021 Media ‘Now is the time to engage’: Berkeley to redraw district boundaries Earned media in Daily Cal 71 9/28/2021 Phone Calls October 2 Public Hearing Targeted community organization follow-up to emails/letters (23)
72 9/29/2021 Social Media October 2 Public Hearing Twitter 73 9/30/2021 E-mail October 2 Public Hearing 55 UC Student organizations and department 74 9/30/2021 E-msg October 2 Public Hearing BPL Library News - 105,000 Recipients - Direct E-Mail List 75 10/1/2021 Social Media October 2 Public Hearing Twitter 76 10/2/2021 Social Media October 2 Public Hearing Twitter 77 10/7/2021 E-mail Public Maps; Maptitude Demo; Offer of In-Person Presentations 400+ Community Organizations 78 10/12/2021 Virtual Maptitude Demo for Public Map submitters 79 10/16/2021 In-Person Harvest Festival (Cedar Rose Park) West Berkeley and Broader Berkeley Community 80 10/18/2021 Paid Ad Berkeleyside: Public map submission open Online 81 10/19/2021 Media Op-Ed on overall redistricting process Daily Cal 82 10/21/2021 Social Media Maptitude Demo for Public Twitter 83 10/21/2021 Virtual Maptitude Demo for Public Map submitters 84 10/21/2021 Media Online mapping tool & mapping deadline; coverage from Harvest Festival Earned media in the Berkeley Times 85 11/3/2021 E-Mail Deadline to Submit Maps for New Council District Boundaries - Nov. 15 400+ Community Organizations 86 11/6/2021 Social Media Deadline to Submit Maps for New Council District Boundaries - Nov. 15 Twitter 87 11/8/2021 E-mail Pass through e-mail to Mayor and Councilmembers Constituent e-mails and newsletters 88 11/8/2021 E-mail Target reminder to ASUC partners ASUC Officers and UC Students 89 11/8/2021 News Msg Community Message for 10/2 Hearing Website, Media List, GovDelivery Subscriber E-Mail 90 11/8/2021 Paid Ad Berkeleyside: Public map submission period reminder Online 91 11/8/2021 Social Media Deadline to Submit Maps for New Council District Boundaries - Nov. 15 Nextdoor 92 11/8/2021 Media Deadline to Submit Maps for New Council District Boundaries - Nov. 15 Earned media in Patch 93 11/15/2021 Media Submit Your Map For New Council District Boundaries Before Nov. 15 Earned media in Patch 94 12/8/2021 Email Get involved in redistricting map review by Jan 10th [public submissions] 400+ Community Organizations 95 1/13/2022 Email Get ready to review draft maps 400+ Community Organizations 96 1/14/2022 Newsletter UC Berkeley Government & Community Relations 700 Recipients; UC Focused 97 1/21/2022 News Msg "See Draft Maps of Proposed Council District Boundaries" Website, Media List, GovDelivery Subscriber E-Mail 98 1/21/2022 Paid Ad Berkeleyside: PH and map release Online Updated 3/17/2022 3 of 4
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# Date Type Topic Distribution
99 1/21/2022 Paid Ad Berkeley Voice: PH and map release Print only 100 1/21/2022 In-Person Large Format Maps Displayed at Central Library and South Berkeley Senior Center 101 1/21/2022 In-Person Map Books (11x17 size) All libraries, rec centers, pools, City Hall 102 1/21/2022 Paid Ad Daily Cal: PH and Map Release Online Ad 103 1/21/2022 Email Public Hearings and draft maps release 400+ Community Organizations 104 1/21/2022 Email Upcoming Redistricting Open House Events 400+ Community Organizations 105 1/21/2022 Social Media "See Draft Maps of Proposed Council District Boundaries" Twitter 106 1/22/2022 In-Person Draft Map Open House Open House at Northbrae Community Church 107 1/22/2022 Social Media "See Draft Maps of Proposed Council District Boundaries" Nextdoor 108 1/21/2022 Email Pass through e-mail to Mayor and Councilmembers Constituent e-mails and newsletters 109 1/24/2022 Media "Berkeley Redistricting: How new City Council boundaries could affect you" Earned media in Berkeleyside 110 1/24/2022 In-Person Draft Map Open House South Berkeley Senior Center 111 1/25/2022 Social Media See & give feedback on draft maps at our virtual meeting Twitter 112 1/27/2022 Newsletter Library eNews - Draft Maps and Public Hearings Library eNews (100,000 subscribers) 113 1/27/2022 Social Media Join us tonight to see the 4 draft maps Twitter 114 2/1/2022 In-Person Participate in Draft Map Discussions Table and Large Maps at Bancroft & Telegraph 115 2/1/2022 Media Independent Redistricting Commission eliminates 3 proposed maps Earned media in Daily Cal 116 2/2/2022 Social Media You can still check out and give feedback on four maps proposing… Twitter 117 2/3/2022 In-Person Participate in Draft Map Discussions Table and Large Maps at Bancroft & Telegraph 118 2/7/2022 Social Media Share your input on four maps proposing potential boundaries for… Twitter 119 2/10/2022 Email See two new draft maps of proposed Council district boundaries 400+ Community Organizations 120 2/14/2022 Social Media Starting to narrow in on the proposed council district maps… Twitter 121 2/14/2022 Media Advocates allege proposed Berkeley City Council districts fail to represent renters Earned media in Daily Cal 122 2/15/2022 News Msg See two new draft maps as proposed Council district boundaries near adoption Website, Media List, GovDelivery Subscriber E-Mail 123 2/16/2022 Social Media See two new draft maps as proposed Council district boundaries near adoption Nextdoor 124 2/16/2022 Social Media Nearing adoption of the final map… Twitter 125 2/16/2022 Media In brief: Berkeley residents' input sought on proposed new district maps Earned media in East Bay Times 126 2/19/2022 Social Media Share your input on the two latest maps… Twitter 127 2/25/2022 Email See two new draft maps of proposed Council district boundaries 400+ Community Organizations 128 2/25/2022 Social Media Narrowed down to one map Twitter 129 2/28/2022 Social Media Final map is selected tonight Twitter 130 3/1/2022 Media Berkeley’s redistricting commission picks new City Council map Earned media in Berkeleyside 131 3/14/20022 Email Last redistricting commission meeting: March 16 400+ Community Organizations Updated 3/17/2022 4 of 4
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tricting Hub: cityofberkeley.info/redistricting/
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ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
Chris Bazar
Agency Director
224 West Winton Ave
Room 110
Hayward, California
94544-1215
phone
510.670.5333
fax
510.670.6374
acgov.org/Census2020
Agenda Item_______ December 15, 2020
December 1, 2020
Honorable Board of Supervisors
Administration Building
1221 Oak Street, Suite 536
Oakland, California 94612
Dear Board Members:
SUBJECT: CENSUS 2020 – FINAL STATUS REPORT REGARDING
CENSUS OUTREACH ACTIVITIES FROM THE ALAMEDA
COUNTY COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Review and accept the final status report regarding Alameda County’s Census 2020 outreach program from the Complete Count Committee.
DISCUSSION/SUMMARY:
Census 2020 officially concluded on October 15, 2020. Despite the significant challenges faced by the census in 2020, the final Census 2020 Self-Response Rate for Alameda County was 75.8%, ranking 7th amongst California counties. Alameda County achieved a higher “Self-Response Rate” than Census 2010 by 5.6%.
The Board of Supervisors deemed Census 2020 as a priority because the results will dramatically affect the well-being and political representation of county residents for a decade. In June 2018, your Board invested $1.5 million as vital seed funding for the community engagement and education efforts needed to attain a complete count of County residents and authorized the creation of the Alameda County Complete Count Committee (CCC). The CCC first met on November 18, 2018 and is chaired by Supervisors Wilma Chan and Nate Miley. The CCC consisted of a vast and deeply committed coalition of community and faith-based organizations, individual volunteers (called Census Ambassadors), educational institutions, cities, and elected officials. The CCC formed 15 subcommittees to frame its community engagement to reach residents who have been historically undercounted, including low-income individuals, immigrants, people with limited English proficiency, people of color, young children, people with disabilities, and people residing in overcrowded housing or whom are unhoused. The US Census Bureau refers to such populations as “Hard-to-Count.” Issued through a Request for Proposal process, Alameda County Census 2020 outreach grants ranging from $5,000 - $47,500 were awarded to 70 organizations, 1 grant in the amount of $150,000 was awarded to Tech Exchange and mini-grants, under $3,000, were awarded to 37 organizations.
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Subsequently, the State of California (State) directly invested $1,324,696 in Alameda County’s outreach efforts to support the “Hard-to-Count” residents. The State directed an additional $100,000 to United Way Bay Area to directly help Alameda County with outreach materials and digital marketing. In addition to direct funding, the State provided $6.5M, including the $1.3M to Alameda County, to Region 3 - consisting of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Solano counties - to ensure community outreach and education coverage.
The census's importance is reflected by the collective effort and resources public and philanthropic entities. The East Bay Community Foundation granted approximately $1 million dollars to dozens of Alameda County nonprofits for outreach and education as a part of the Bay Area Census Funders coalition.
Challenges
Census 2020 endured significant challenges to ensuring a complete and accurate count of all residents. Federal-level actions and policies, including the proposed citizenship question on the census, changes to the “public charge” regulations, raids and deportations had created a pervasive anti-immigrant climate and instilled fear and mistrust among immigrant communities regarding government activities. Also, there was general distrust in government and concern about sharing personal information through the first online census. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic added to the mounting challenges.
Census 2020 officially launched for "self-response" on March 12, 2020 when Census notices were mailed to each address. Simultaneously, the Coronavirus pandemic became a serious threat in Alameda County and the Nation. Corresponding shelter-in-place orders postponed or canceled hundreds of Census specific events, closed the community spaces in which 130 Questionnaire Assistance Centers were planned to open, and shuttered schools where programming was scheduled to include Census education activities.
Response
In response to COVID-19, the Alameda County Complete Count Committee made rapid changes to the outreach plan. Through CCC staff, fellows, and Census Ambassadors, direct Census outreach continued through remote, virtual, and other contact-free methods, such as:
• Phone banking to more than 80,000 residents, using the State’s Census PDI system • 91 Mobile Questionnaire Assistance engagements - over 2,000 individuals completed the Census on-site using tablets and receiving support from trained Census Ambassadors.
Such in-person engagements were only conducted outdoors in compliance with public health guidelines and extensive usage of PPE. Locations included: Multiple sites of Oakland Unified School District’s weekly food distributions, three Self Sufficiency Centers operated by Alameda County’s Social Services Agency, COVID testing sites coordinated by Alameda County Public Health Department, and multiple grocery stores in low-responding Census tracts
• Direct mail to targeted populations including Medi-Cal recipients, families with children ages 0-5 receiving services from First Five of Alameda County, tenants of Accessory Dwelling Units, and affordable housing residents
• Doorhanger deliveries and socially-distanced canvassing efforts
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• Incorporating Census materials into hundreds of food and meal distributions • Participating in online town halls and “Know Your Rights” forums
Grantees also shifted their efforts to methods that were safe to conduct during the pandemic. For example, many community and faith-based organizations had originally planned to hold in- person Census events but pivoted by assigning staff to call their clients or members for one-on- one Census education and support. Others hosted online events on Facebook Live or Zoom. Such efforts successfully ensured that thousands of residents completed their Census because these individuals were contacted directly by organizations and people they know and trust.
The Complete Count Committee staff accomplished the outcomes listed below and in the attached Impact Report:
• Facilitated 20 "Census Solutions Workshops" to solicit feedback from partners about the outreach methods they thought would be most successful. These workshops allowed staff opportunities to educate community leaders, advocates, and nonprofit staff about the fundamentals & mechanics of the Census, take their questions, and invest them in attaining a complete count on Census 2020.
• Supported US Census Bureau enumerator recruitment by coordinating 8 application workshops and a targeted promotion campaign of Census jobs through workforce development partners
• Delivered Census presentations to nearly 250 groups reaching over 6,500 individuals (including County departments, County and City commissions, nonprofits, & clubs) • Trained over 800 individuals on how to conduct Census outreach • Advocated on behalf of unhoused residents regarding the deficiencies of the US Census Bureau’s plan to enumerate individuals experiencing homelessness (see attached memos) • Equipped hundreds of partners with materials, incentives, signage, and technology • Coordinated with County Agencies who serve historically undercounted populations on how to engage clients, including Public Health, Health Care Services, Social Services, Behavioral Health Care Services, and Probation
• Provided technical assistance to cities and the offices of elected officials, such as message development, crafting outreach strategies, and clarifying USCB processes • Provided thought partnership and individualized support to grantees on how to alter their outreach plans in the wake of the COVID19 pandemic
• Real-time interventions to low-responding Census tracts: recruiting and onboarding new partners, coordinating strategy meetings amongst stakeholders serving those tracts, and enhancing resources such as Mobile Questionnaire Assistance or canvassing
To reach Alameda County’s diverse population and people with limited English proficiency, the CCC ensured language access in multiple ways. Census educational materials was produced in multiple languages. For less commonly spoken languages in which translation services were less effective, community-based organizations with linguistic capacity were provided resources to produce translated materials or videos. CCC staff produced a video series of immigrant testimonials in 13 languages, which was available on its YouTube page, promoted through grantees, and featured in United Way Bay Area’s digital marketing campaign in Alameda
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County. These videos were developed to address key concerns raised by immigrants about Census participation and allow immigrant advocates to express why they were committed to getting counted. In late 2019, CCC staff supported an English as a Second Language (ESL) expert to produce Census curriculum for adult education programs throughout the County. After these materials were produced, County staff led eight presentations to ESL instructors to teach about the Census and preview the materials to them. In lieu of being able to host 3 large Census “Know Your Rights” forums, the CCC activated Spanish speaking partners from Faith in Action East Bay and Centro Legal and produced an online event and video to assuage fears of participation repeatedly raised by immigrants. CCC staff also contracted with various ethnic media outlets to feature Census Ambassadors in “Census Spotlight” programs on both KIQI 1010am (Spanish radio) and Ariana TV (which reached Farsi speaking Afghanis.) County Census materials also referred individuals to the 211 hotline, whose multi-lingual staff were trained to provide Census support. Language access was most significantly achieved through the dozens of ethnic grantees and mini-grantees who are “trusted messengers” among immigrants and non-English speakers, and who could conduct outreach in the most linguistically and culturally appropriate ways.
The results of these efforts are illustrated in the County, City, and Community Self Response Rates below.
Area
2020 Self
Response Rate
2010 Self
Response Rate
Alameda County 75.8% 70.2%
Piedmont
90.0%
(highest in CA) 85.8%
Newark 82.8% 73.5%
Livermore 82.6% 75.0%
San Lorenzo 81.7% 76.0%
Union City 81.6% 73.0%
Pleasanton 81.2% 79.3%
Albany 80.9% 50.4%
Castro Valley 80.0% 75.2%
Fremont 79.8% 74.9%
Alameda 79.2% 76.2%
Dublin 78.7% 71.0%
San Leandro 78.0% 75.2%
Fairview 74.3% 69.6%
Area
2020 Self
Response Rate
2010 Self
Response Rate
Berkeley 72.5% 72.3%
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Hayward 71.6% 67.9%
Oakland 71.3% 66.6%
Emeryville 69.4% 63.5%
Ashland 67.0% 63.7%
Cherryland 65.4% 64.5%
Lessons Learned
The Complete Count Committee staff identified four actions that enabled the development of a coalition of thousands of community leaders and organizations. These leaders recognized the power of civic engagement and understand what is at stake when our diverse and vulnerable populations are not equally represented, resulting in a coalition that effectively fought for an inclusive and accessible Census.
• Starting early (launched in November 2018)
• Rooting the work in community engagement by providing many workshops for partner support and engagement
• Partnering with trusted messengers and supporting them with funding, training, materials, and technical assistance to ensure they would be successful in motivating people to respond to Census 2020
• Providing sufficient resources for community engagement
Future Actions
The accuracy of the census data and how that data will be used for reapportionment may be affected by an on-going court case and a legislative bill. The State of California and numerous cities and counties, and organizations across the country have challenged the July 21, 2020 Presidential Memorandum that excludes undocumented residents for the reapportionment of Representatives following the 2020 census. On November 10th, your Board authorized County Counsel to join the State’s Amicus Brief in the appeal to the Supreme Court (SCOTUS), hearings will begin on November 30th. The SCOTUS decision on the exclusion of undocumented residents will determine how census data informs redistricting at the local level and the impacts on federal funding received by local governments.
On November 23, 2020, your Personnel, Administration, and Legislation (PAL) subcommittee recommended support for the 2020 Census Deadline Extensions Act (Senate 4571), which extends two critical statutory deadlines by four months to give the Census Bureau enough time to compile accurate data sets. The current streamlined data processing under an accelerated census plan presents risks to the data's accuracy and completeness. The Secretary of Commerce is required to provide a report to the president by December 31, 2020. In turn, the president must send a report containing each state's total population and the number of representatives to which each state is entitled to Congress on January 10, 2021. If the legislation passes, the deadline for the delivery of apportionment data will be April 30, 2021 instead of December 31, 2020. The delivery of the redistricting data to the states will change to July 31, 2021 from March 31, 2021.
Board of Supervisors
December 1, 2020
Staff will return to your Board in January to report on the status of the SCOTUS decision and the legislation outcomes and review the new California redistricting laws - the Fair and Inclusive Redistricting for Municipalities and Political Subdivisions Act (FAIR MAPS Act), AB 849.
FINANCING:
There is no Net County Cost as a result of this action.
VISION 2026:
The Census count is used to allocate federal funds for vital services, including health care, social services, transportation, education, environmental protection, and housing. Census outreach efforts align with the 10X goal pathways of Healthcare for All, Eliminating Poverty and Hunger, Eliminating Homelessness, and Accessible Infrastructure in support of our shared vision of a Thriving and Resilient Population, Safe and Livable Communities, and a Prosperous and Vibrant Economy.
Very truly yours,
Chris Bazar, Director
Community Development Agency
cc: Susan S. Muranishi, County Administrator
Donna R. Ziegler, County Counsel
Melissa Wilk, Auditor-Controller
Jennifer Schulz, County Administrator’s Office
Heather M. Littlejohn, Office of the County Counsel
Casey Farmer, Executive Director, Alameda County Census 2020 Program Sandra Rivera, Community Development Agency
Days before the launch of Census 2020, the pandemic and subsequent shelter-in-place orders cancelled hundred events & 130 Questionnaire Assistance Centers. Certain populations became extremely difficult to reach because they were no longer utilizing public spaces where outreach had been planned. Many college students left the area entirely. The CCC staff and partners pivoted their outreach plans to meet community members where they could safely gather while upholding health and safety guidelines.
ALAMEDA COUNTY
COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE
IMPACT REPORT
Billions of dollars for important programs including education, housing, transportation, & dozens of social safety net services Congressional representation for each state and redistricting Census data is used to allocate:
WHY IS THE CENSUS IMPORTANT?
CHALLENGES
of the
County population
is considered
"Hard to Count"
FEAR
from immigrant
communities
LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
about the Census and
GROWING DISTRUST
in government
Mobile Questionnaire
Assistance events held
at food distributions,
COVID testing sites, etc.
Alameda County faced unique challenges in attaining a complete count:
IMPACT OF COVID-19
Final Self Response Rate: 75.8% Increase from 2010: 5.6% 26%
91 15,000
Census 2020 masks
distributed
BY THE NUMBERS
The Alameda County Census Committee engaged the community by seeking ideas from diverse stakeholders, funding impactful outreach projects, investing in local media, and our Census Ambassador program.
City Engagement:
Worked closely with staff and
elected officials from each city in
the County to develop outreach
strategies & communicate
effectively to residents.
14 GRANTMAKING Goal: Invest in effective organizations who are trusted by their hard-to-count communities
$2 Million
Awarded
In Grants
69 Grantee
Orgs
ADVERTISING
Affordable Housing
Children 0-5
Cities
Community Based Organizations
Elected Officials
Immigrants
Libraries
LGBTQ
Health
Higher Education
People with Disabilities
Senior Citizens
Unhoused Community
Workforce Development
1. 2.
3. 4.
5. 6.
7. 8.
9. 10.
11. 12.
13. 14.
250
Presentations
Given
Total Impressions made:
771,969
37,000
Calls made by
organizations
CENSUS AMBASSADOR PROGRAM
310
Census Ambassadors
Ambassadors were trusted
messengers, trained &
equipped by County staff
to provide direct outreach
to their own communities
Various outlets featured
and interviewed
Alameda County CCC
staff and partners
70,000
Phonebanking
calls made
Subcommittees
62 Mini-
Grantees
EARNED MEDIA
Interactive Online
Census Quiz
Know Your Rights Video
Burmese
Cantonese
Dari
Hindi
Mandarin
DIGITAL OUTREACH
Census Magic Show
Immigrant Testimonial
Video Series
Punjabi
Spanish
Tagalog
Tigrinya
Immigrants across Alameda
County shared their reasons
for getting counted!
ŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJŽĨ/ŶƚĞƌĞƐƚ&Žƌŵ
KƉƚŝŽŶĂůʹEĂŵĞͬ
ŵĂŝů͗
tŚŝĐŚĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚĚŽLJŽƵůŝǀĞŝŶ͍/ĨLJŽƵ͛ƌĞŶŽƚƐƵƌĞ͕ǁƌŝƚĞLJŽƵƌĂĚĚƌĞƐƐĂŶĚǁĞ͛ůůůŽŽŬŝƚƵƉ͗ FŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϭFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϮFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϯFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϰ FŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϱFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϲFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϳFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϴ
tŚĂƚĂƌĞƚŚĞĐŽŵŵŽŶŝŶƚĞƌĞƐƚƐŝŶLJŽƵƌĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ͍ĞƐĐƌŝďĞŚŽǁƚŚĞLJĂƌĞŝŵƉŽƌƚĂŶƚ͗
džƉůĂŝŶƚŚĞŐĞŽŐƌĂƉŚŝĐĂůůŽĐĂƚŝŽŶŽĨLJŽƵƌĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJŽĨŝŶƚĞƌĞƐƚ͘tŚĂƚĂƌĞƚŚĞďŽƵŶĚĂƌŝĞƐ͍ ,ŽǁŝƐLJŽƵƌĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJŝŵƉĂĐƚĞĚďLJƚŚĞŝƚLJĂŶĚƚŚĞĂĐƚŝŽŶƐŽĨƚŚĞŝƚLJŽƵŶĐŝů͍ tŚĂƚĞůƐĞǁŽƵůĚLJŽƵůŝŬĞƚŽƚĞůůƵƐĂďŽƵƚLJŽƵƌĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ͍ĚĚŵŽƌĞƉĂŐĞƐŝĨLJŽƵŶĞĞĚƚŽ͘ YƵĞƐƚŝŽŶƐŽƌĐŽŵŵĞŶƚƐ͍^ƵďŵŝƚƚŚŝƐĨŽƌŵďLJ͗
tĞǁĂŶƚƚŽŚĞĂƌĨƌŽŵLJŽƵ͘
ŵĂŝůƚŚĞĞƌŬĞůĞLJ
/ŶĚĞƉĞŶĚĞŶƚZĞĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚŝŶŐŽŵŵŝƐƐŝŽŶĂƚ
ƌĞĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚŝŶŐΛĐŝƚLJŽĨďĞƌŬĞůĞLJ͘ŝŶĨŽŽƌǀŝƐŝƚŽƵƌ
ǁĞďƉĂŐĞĂƚǁǁǁ͘ĐŝƚLJŽĨďĞƌŬĞůĞLJ͘ŝŶĨŽͬƌĞĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚŝŶŐͬ͘
ŵĂŝů͗ƌĞĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚŝŶŐΛĐŝƚLJŽĨďĞƌŬĞůĞLJ͘ŝŶĨŽ
/ŶƉĞƌƐŽŶ͗Ăůů;ϱϭϬͿϵϴϭͲϲϵϬϴƚŽŵĂŬĞĂŶ
ĂƉƉŽŝŶƚŵĞŶƚ͘
DĂŝů͗ŝƚLJůĞƌŬĞƉĂƌƚŵĞŶƚ͕ϮϭϴϬDŝůǀŝĂ
^ƚƌĞĞƚ͕ϭƐƚ&ůŽŽƌ͕ĞƌŬĞůĞLJ͕ϵϰϳϬϰ
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The UC Berkeley student body is interested in housing development and affordability, safety around campus, police conduct, sustainability, and transit in the City of Berkeley. This list is not exhaustive; students are interested in all issues pertinent to their educational experience and life as Berkeley residents.
The UC Berkeley student population is located broadly across District 7, to the south of campus. Many students also live in Districts 4, 6, and 8. Although students can be found living throughout the entire city and East Bay, the majority of students, particularly undergraduates, live within 1 mile of campus.
Like mentioned above, anything acted upon by the City Council and the City that can affect Berkeley students' educational experiences will impact this community. Students are particularly conce rned about housing, and thus any City policy regarding zoning, development, tenant rights, and rent policies will imp act this community, potentially either hurting or helping their time as a Cal student. Similarly, many students are interested in public transit, sustainability, safety, and police conduct.
The community of UC Berkeley students comprises a large share of the City's population, standing at more than 40,000 students. While attending school here, many students become active and engaged members of the city of Berkeley, adopting it as a second home. This is evidenced by the student representation on City Commissions and the needs students communicate to the ASUC Office of the External Affairs Vice President, which often serves as the liaison between student voices and the City. UC Berkeley students are invested in the governance of their city alongside long-term residents, and seek to see their interests adequately represented and concerns addresse d.
Appendix I
ŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJŽĨ/ŶƚĞƌĞƐƚ&Žƌŵ
KƉƚŝŽŶĂůʹEĂŵĞͬ
ŵĂŝů͗
tŚŝĐŚĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚĚŽLJŽƵůŝǀĞŝŶ͍/ĨLJŽƵ͛ƌĞŶŽƚƐƵƌĞ͕ǁƌŝƚĞLJŽƵƌĂĚĚƌĞƐƐĂŶĚǁĞ͛ůůůŽŽŬŝƚƵƉ͗ FŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϭFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϮFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϯFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϰ FŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϱFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϲFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϳFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϴ
tŚĂƚĂƌĞƚŚĞĐŽŵŵŽŶŝŶƚĞƌĞƐƚƐŝŶLJŽƵƌĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ͍ĞƐĐƌŝďĞŚŽǁƚŚĞLJĂƌĞŝŵƉŽƌƚĂŶƚ͗
džƉůĂŝŶƚŚĞŐĞŽŐƌĂƉŚŝĐĂůůŽĐĂƚŝŽŶŽĨLJŽƵƌĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJŽĨŝŶƚĞƌĞƐƚ͘tŚĂƚĂƌĞƚŚĞďŽƵŶĚĂƌŝĞƐ͍ ,ŽǁŝƐLJŽƵƌĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJŝŵƉĂĐƚĞĚďLJƚŚĞŝƚLJĂŶĚƚŚĞĂĐƚŝŽŶƐŽĨƚŚĞŝƚLJŽƵŶĐŝů͍ tŚĂƚĞůƐĞǁŽƵůĚLJŽƵůŝŬĞƚŽƚĞůůƵƐĂďŽƵƚLJŽƵƌĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ͍ĚĚŵŽƌĞƉĂŐĞƐŝĨLJŽƵŶĞĞĚƚŽ͘ YƵĞƐƚŝŽŶƐŽƌĐŽŵŵĞŶƚƐ͍^ƵďŵŝƚƚŚŝƐĨŽƌŵďLJ͗
tĞǁĂŶƚƚŽŚĞĂƌĨƌŽŵLJŽƵ͘
ŵĂŝůƚŚĞĞƌŬĞůĞLJ
/ŶĚĞƉĞŶĚĞŶƚZĞĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚŝŶŐŽŵŵŝƐƐŝŽŶĂƚ
ƌĞĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚŝŶŐΛĐŝƚLJŽĨďĞƌŬĞůĞLJ͘ŝŶĨŽŽƌǀŝƐŝƚŽƵƌ
ǁĞďƉĂŐĞĂƚǁǁǁ͘ĐŝƚLJŽĨďĞƌŬĞůĞLJ͘ŝŶĨŽͬƌĞĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚŝŶŐͬ͘
ŵĂŝů͗ƌĞĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚŝŶŐΛĐŝƚLJŽĨďĞƌŬĞůĞLJ͘ŝŶĨŽ
/ŶƉĞƌƐŽŶ͗Ăůů;ϱϭϬͿϵϴϭͲϲϵϬϴƚŽŵĂŬĞĂŶ
ĂƉƉŽŝŶƚŵĞŶƚ͘
DĂŝů͗ŝƚLJůĞƌŬĞƉĂƌƚŵĞŶƚ͕ϮϭϴϬDŝůǀŝĂ
^ƚƌĞĞƚ͕ϭƐƚ&ůŽŽƌ͕ĞƌŬĞůĞLJ͕ϵϰϳϬϰ
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Poor quality roads filled with pot holes/bumps/ cracks/ uneven pavement; outdated as in over 100 years old electrical infrastructure; crime; pollution from Ashby and San Pablo Ave.; pedestrian friendly ways to cross San Pablo Ave I am located in south west berkeley. We are the borders of south west berkeley.
Lack of street paving in the area. I noticed that district 7 seems to get tons of street paving in the north south direction. On the other hand, District 2 gets maybe a street here and there. San Pablo park is an extremely high use park. There are permanent lines for the tennis courts, children cover the playground, every basketball court is in use and the fields are always in use for soccer, volleyball, picnics, birthday parties and dog walkers. However, the streets surrounding the park are complete junk.
Berkeley wants people to use 9th street for biking. How are people supposed to get from designated bike path Russel Street to 9th street? By biking on a poorly paved Russel Street and crossing 3 lanes of traffic on San Pablo to get to the left hand turn signal to get to 9th street.
The infrastructure and pollution in the area is bad. Pretty much all the public housing and multi story buildings are built in my district or downtown. When is north berkeley going to get a multi story buildng for public housing? District 2 is lower income than the rest of the districts. We have Ashby and San Pablo Ave running through the district. The schools are over crowded. Malcolm X is hundreds of students over capacity. The roads are crap. I have no idea why district 7 gets so much repaving and District 2 might get a street of repaving. The roads surroudning the San Pablo park require an off road vehicle.
The amount of use San Pablo park ges is far higher than other parks. I have been to strawberry creek, ohlone, willard, and grove parks. No other parks comes close to how packed san pablo park gets yet. There quite literally, 5-8 birthday parties that happen in the park every weekend. The roads get worse week by week.
ŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJŽĨ/ŶƚĞƌĞƐƚ&Žƌŵ
KƉƚŝŽŶĂůʹEĂŵĞͬ
ŵĂŝů͗
tŚŝĐŚĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚĚŽLJŽƵůŝǀĞŝŶ͍/ĨLJŽƵ͛ƌĞŶŽƚƐƵƌĞ͕ǁƌŝƚĞLJŽƵƌĂĚĚƌĞƐƐĂŶĚǁĞ͛ůůůŽŽŬŝƚƵƉ͗ FŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϭFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϮFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϯFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϰ FŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϱFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϲFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϳFŝƐƚƌŝĐƚϴ
tŚĂƚĂƌĞƚŚĞĐŽŵŵŽŶŝŶƚĞƌĞƐƚƐŝŶLJŽƵƌĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ͍ĞƐĐƌŝďĞŚŽǁƚŚĞLJĂƌĞŝŵƉŽƌƚĂŶƚ͗
džƉůĂŝŶƚŚĞŐĞŽŐƌĂƉŚŝĐĂůůŽĐĂƚŝŽŶŽĨLJŽƵƌĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJŽĨŝŶƚĞƌĞƐƚ͘tŚĂƚĂƌĞƚŚĞďŽƵŶĚĂƌŝĞƐ͍ ,ŽǁŝƐLJŽƵƌĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJŝŵƉĂĐƚĞĚďLJƚŚĞŝƚLJĂŶĚƚŚĞĂĐƚŝŽŶƐŽĨƚŚĞŝƚLJŽƵŶĐŝů͍ tŚĂƚĞůƐĞǁŽƵůĚLJŽƵůŝŬĞƚŽƚĞůůƵƐĂďŽƵƚLJŽƵƌĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ͍ĚĚŵŽƌĞƉĂŐĞƐŝĨLJŽƵŶĞĞĚƚŽ͘ YƵĞƐƚŝŽŶƐŽƌĐŽŵŵĞŶƚƐ͍^ƵďŵŝƚƚŚŝƐĨŽƌŵďLJ͗
tĞǁĂŶƚƚŽŚĞĂƌĨƌŽŵLJŽƵ͘
ŵĂŝůƚŚĞĞƌŬĞůĞLJ
/ŶĚĞƉĞŶĚĞŶƚZĞĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚŝŶŐŽŵŵŝƐƐŝŽŶĂƚ
ƌĞĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚŝŶŐΛĐŝƚLJŽĨďĞƌŬĞůĞLJ͘ŝŶĨŽŽƌǀŝƐŝƚŽƵƌ
ǁĞďƉĂŐĞĂƚǁǁǁ͘ĐŝƚLJŽĨďĞƌŬĞůĞLJ͘ŝŶĨŽͬƌĞĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚŝŶŐͬ͘
ŵĂŝů͗ƌĞĚŝƐƚƌŝĐƚŝŶŐΛĐŝƚLJŽĨďĞƌŬĞůĞLJ͘ŝŶĨŽ
/ŶƉĞƌƐŽŶ͗Ăůů;ϱϭϬͿϵϴϭͲϲϵϬϴƚŽŵĂŬĞĂŶ
ĂƉƉŽŝŶƚŵĞŶƚ͘
DĂŝů͗ŝƚLJůĞƌŬĞƉĂƌƚŵĞŶƚ͕ϮϭϴϬDŝůǀŝĂ
^ƚƌĞĞƚ͕ϭƐƚ&ůŽŽƌ͕ĞƌŬĞůĞLJ͕ϵϰϳϬϰ
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We are in touch via email with any safety concerns. We meet annually. We know each other by name. We should be in District 1, where we used to be. When the lines were redrawn, they went right down the middle of our street.
We are on Ada Street between Ordway and Acton. Our neighborhood group includes many neighbors on Ada between Acton and Sacramento, folks on Acton and on Ordway from Hopkins to Rose, a few folk s on Hopkins just below and just above Orway.
I would like to be in District 1 again, where I was for many years before the lines were redrawn. There's a line right down the middle of Ada Street. So I have a different representative than the folks across the street, and I lost my voting place. Our neighborhood, Ada Street between Ordway and Acton, has an active mailing list and participates in National Night Out Against Crime. I organize the gatherings, and 98% of the people on our list a re in District 1.My representative will never come to our National Night Out gatherings because only our side of the street is in her district, so I effectively have no representation. It's one block, It belongs in District 1, not District 5. And if you wanted to be really effective, you'd also include Ada between Acton and Sacramento in District 1. Everyone in that block live s directly across the street from Ruth Acty Elementary School and Crowden Music School, which are both in District 1.
1 Bunting, Sarah K.
From: Barbara Ann Yoder
Sent: Saturday, November 6, 2021 10:31 PM
To: Independent Redistricting Commission
Subject: Re: COI Outreach Worksheet Attached
Attachments: Berkeley COI Outreach Worksheet-B Yoder-UPDATED.pdf Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Flagged
Categories: COI Submission
WARNING: This is not a City of Berkeley email. Do not click links or attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe.
Hi, there.
I previously submitted a form, but I just updated my responses. Please include the attached PDF in your deliberations on redistricting.
Our neighborhood group, currently 65 homes, was established probably in the 1980s, when former fire chief Bill Brock and his wife initiated annual National Night Out neighborhood gatherings. The black oval in the District 1 map below shows the general area of our group. It runs along Ada Street from Ordway to Acton and about halfway up the next block toward Sacramento. It includes homes on Ordway from Hopkins to Rose, several homes on Rose and on Hopkins that back to Ada between Ordway and Acton, and most homes on Acton from Hopkins to Ada. The backbone of the group is Ada Street. Everyone in this oval is welcome in our group.
The red lines in the image below show how I would like to see the lines redrawn. If a street needs to be split down the middle, it should be a busy street with a double yellow line, like Hopkins from Ordway to Acton. Ada Street should not be split down the middle. All of Ada Street below Sacramento belongs in District 1, where it was for many years. If Ordway between Hopkins and Ada is also split down the middle, it too should be reintegrated into District 1.
Please see the attached PDF for more details on our group. Thank you!
Barbara Ann Yoder
2 From: Barbara Ann Yoder
Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 9:45 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: COI Outreach Worksheet Attached
Hi, there.
I filled out the attached form. Downloaded it from Berkeleyside.
B Yoder
Community of Interest Form
Optional – Name / Email:
Which district do you live in? If you’re not sure, write your address and we’ll look it up:
District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4 District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8 What are the common interests in your community? Describe how they are important:
Explain the geographical location of your community of interest. What are the boundaries? How is your community impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council? What else would you like to tell us about your community? Add more p ages if you need to.
Questions or comments? Submit this form by:
We want to hear from you. Email the Berkeley
Independent Redistricting Commission at
[email protected] or visit our
webpage at www.cityofberkeley.info/redistricting/.
Email: [email protected]
In person: Call (510) 981‐6908 to ma
ke an
appointment.
Mail: City Clerk Department, 2180 Milvia
Street, 1st Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704
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I am part of a vibrant neighborhood group established probably in the 1980s, when former fire chief Bill Brock and his wife initiated annual gatherings during National Night Out. For the last 13 years since I moved to Ada Street, our neighborhood group has worked together sharing safety concerns and looking out for each other. We currently have 65 households in our group. We are in touch via email. We meet annually. We know each other by name. We have a neighborhood earthquake cache and a neighbor on Ordway offers trainings. All of Ada Street below Sacramento should be in District 1, where we used to be. When the lines were redrawn, they went right down the middle of our street. As a neighborhood we are impacted by development plans at N. Berkeley BART, Ruth Acty School traffic and events, Cedar-Rose Park events, traffic on Hopkins and the Ohlone Greenway—all in District 1. We should be rejoined with District 1.
Our neighborhood group currently includes 65 homes along Ada Street from Ordway to Acton and about halfway up the next block toward Sacramento. It includes most homes on Ordway from Hopkins to Rose, several homes on Rose and on Hopkins that back to Ada between Ordway and Acton, and most homes on Acton from Hopkins to Ada. Everyone in these blocks are welcome in our group. When you redraw the lines, if a street needs to be split down the middle, it shouldn't be a quiet short street like Ada; it should be a busy through street with double yellow lines, like Hopkins from Ordway to Acton.
Also, if Ordway between Hopkins and Ada is split down the middle, it too should be reincorporated into District 1.
We are impacted by traffic on Hopkins and the Ohlone Greenway, and by traffic on Acton, Ordway, and Ada, where many drivers like to ignore stop signs. The recent repaving of Ada Street to replace the crumbling roadway that was installed about 35 years ago will improve the safety of kids and grownups on foot and bikes, but already drivers who don't live in our neighborhood are speeding down our street. We appreciate the new pavement. Now we need to lobby for speed bumps.
Development plans at N. Berkeley BART will affect parking on our streets, and the removal of parking at the station could jeopardize the safety of elderly and disabled neighbors, even those who live w/i walking distance. A high-rise apartment building will negatively affect the character of the neighborhood. Where are those people going to park? Not everyone is young, mobile, and fit.
We are educated, active, diverse, interested in social justice, a mix of young families with children, new retirees, and the elderly. We can walk or bicycle to most destinations. We look out for each other. We share resources. We would like to be back in District 1, where we were for many years before the lines were redrawn. Here on Ada Street between Ordway and Acton we have a different representative than the folks across the street, and we lost our voting place, and it feels like we lost our voice. Ten people on Ada Street lobbying for, say, a painted crosswalk at Ordway and Hopkins have about 15% the effect of 65 households lobbying for the same. On Ada between Acton and Sacramento everyone lives across the street from Ruth Acty Elementary and Crowden Music School, which are both in District 1. We all belong in District 1.
1 Bunting, Sarah K.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 10:40 PM
To: Independent Redistricting Commission
Subject: Division along Ada Street
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It is helpful when neighbors in close proximity are represented by the same office holder. Several years ago Ada street was split down the middle, with the south side staying in District 1 as it always had been and the Northside parceled out to District 5. As a District 5 member, I have no polling place, and for neighborhood issues, my side of the street must reach out to different city council people. This disadvantages us as we cannot present a unified voice on important concerns.
Please place us back in District 1.
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Unfortunately, as a result of past racist zoning an d other exclusions, this is a largely single family tom e com mu city that is now only affordable by very well-off people or those who inherit homes here. The result is a split in perceived interests within the Community between those who want to see change in the direction of more economic, racial and housing-type diversity an d those who want to preserve the current overwhelmingly white, single family home, wealthy character for property value and other reasons. There is active debate at this time and one result is contested elections in the past 3 elections for District 5 council member. One key issue is resistance to affordable housing in the area. Another is that a high % of the newer younger folks (many also richer) in the neighborhood no longer send their kids to BPS but rather to private schools. Some of this is comes from both resistance to having their kids mix with poor kids and/or Bl ack and brown kids. This is a change for decades Lower hills, near Marin/Arlington Circle.
Street repair, other utilities, parking regs due to very narrow streets and too many cars resident. Park decisions due to 3 parks in immediate area (Indian Rock, etc.). (Great to have the bike racks now!) Repairs and status of paths and walkways and sidewalks. Total lack of multi-family and affordable housing with the sole exceptions of some in-law apartments in some houses. On edge of fire zones so affected by decisions regarding fire safety and possible evacuation routes.
I think the definition of Community that is posited for this form as being geographic is overly restrictive from the start and not in keeping with the spirit of the redistricting intent to include other inter ests (like students status, race, economic status, class, etc.)
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Gardening, art, music, food, being outdoors, all ways for our neighbors to share and connect with one another.
We are on Ada Street between Ordway and Acton. We are in District 1 but the other side of the street is District 5.
Our community was split by the last redistricting, putting the north side of Ada Steet in District 5. This has made organizing events and dealing with issues like street paving and requesting crosswalks more challenging. We would love to have both sides of Ada in the same district again.
The most important thing for me is maintaining affordability and accessibility for our elderly neighbors. The diversity in age in our neighborhood is one of its greatest strengths, and I believe it is incumbant upon the city to make sure that we don't lose that.
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We were gerrymandered out of District 4 (Arreguin) into Capitelli's district so his chosen Stephen Murphy could run against Sophie Hahn. Itvsplit the 2 sides of our block which we used to hold block parties--closing the street. My address is --Stephen Murphy is around the corner from Milvia and Ceder. a few houses down Ceder.Sophie won, Capitelli lost for Mayor. I would like to returm to District 4 with Kate whose home is a few blocks from mine while Hahn relates more to Solano Avenue area.
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Helping each other - sharing tools, offering rides, celebrating wins, informing each other about goings on that may impact (e.g. noisy construction or house repairs).
Tilden park to the east and south, grizzly peak to the west and Cragmont to the north.
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The Willard neighborhood is a community seeking a reduction in crime and maintaining the character of the neighborhood - largely single family houses or single family houses with ADU's.
Telegraph / Parker
College / Ashby
Lack of street maintenance. Slow response to party noise. Lack of a pool in S. Berkeley when Willard Middle School had a pool while the pool in N. Berkeley remained open. Lack of outreach regarding our one patch of open space that is currently looking to have 5,000 sq ft. taken by new City construction.
This neighborhood was the epicenter in the fight to keep one street (Telegraph) as an artery to move people in and out of the S. Campus area when AC Transit and City Planners wanted to make Telegraph a two lane road with two dedicated bus lanes (taking away two lanes of existing roadway).
We were not opposed to better transit. We proposed and pushed hard for Rapid Bus Plus that eventually forced Council to rethink Telegraph. Many of our proposals have now been incorporated in AC Transit's plans.
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Neighborhood beautification
Solano Ave corridor development
Property crime
Far north Berkeley adjacent to Solano Ave to Albany border in the west.
Solano Ave development
Zoning laws
Building permits
It's a lovely quiet corner of Berkeley.
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Our portion of the neighborhood is working families, many with kids, many I see walking to school each day as we set out to leave too. Living near the school has its benefits, but our District has its drawbacks too. As we walk to school each day we pass sidewalks littered with trash.
Not just someone's belongings strewn about, but literal trash and garbage. A few times we have passed broken glass, discarded syringes, and tragically a dead cat that looked as if it had been "tampered" with. While there is sympathy for those on hard times, this is not something children should have to pass on their way to school. Not because it hurts their precious eyes, but because it hurts their souls and it hurts our communities. There is absolutely no compassion in allowing this to continue.
Fourth & Fifth, from Dwight to Addison.
Our District, along with the Gilman District are both disproportionately affected by the City Council's decisions/indecisions regarding homelessness. There are no RVs lining the streets up on Grizzly Peak, there are no tent encampments on Piedmont Ave., there are no syringes on the sidewalks of The Arlington. Our parks and our streets are made unsafe by decisions of those living in the hills who never have to experience what we do on a daily basis.
We work hard, we love our families, we want to do right and it is disheartening and demoralizing to be subjected to the whims of our millionaire class because whatever policy "feels good" to them. Feels real good to them, up in the hills and all, far away from our parks that we don't feel safe going to and our sidewalks which are biohazard disasters at times.
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clean air, affordable low density housing, transportation networks that dont smash thru our neighborhoods, slow streets, public safety, litter and street trash, childcare, parks, trees, community green space
north west berkeley - west of San Pablo to University
appears to be little interest of council and the city in our neighborhood. a place to dump trash, homeless, traffic...
rapidly changing but with many long term committed residents. long history of waves of communities. home to last of Berkeley's industry and many jobs. need protection from freeways and commuters.
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We are latinos with a long history of home ownership and multiple generation households.
We are between 5th st and San Pablo, between University and Dwight.
Out community is impacted by decisions regarding single family home ownership. We are already, but not considered high density. We are usually an extended family (we specifically are 11 people with three generations ages ranging from 4-62) living in a single family home with maybe an in-law unit. We are impacted by parking decisions, schooling decisions - for example our community was deeply impacted by the moving of the Spanish immersion program from Rosa Parks to Silvia Mendez - to accommodate the more affluent and white family's desire for a local school. Now we have to commute to school with less means to do so. We are not granted residential permits despite the desperate need for parking. Our interests are not represented and our concerns are not heard.
We have been discrimitated against by the city in the allocation of resources for public swimming, again in favor of the more affluent/white communities of Berkeley. All of the good public swim and lap swimming hours are designated to King pool, with scant public transportation there and even worse parking. West Campus pool is allocated hours in the morning and during work. Evening and weekend hours go to King.
We have had all of the traffic mitigation push traffic (and related pollution) to our neighborhood with little if any effort made to control traffic (speed and amount) on 6th St. Our houses, property, bicycles, outdoor toys and sadly our lungs are impacted by the constant pollution from trucks and other traffic pushed to our neighborhood.
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public safety, education, beautification (highly interpretative) - however, this district is currently a diverse group of people. I think this is the goal for a district. Why would you only consider putting like-minded folks in the same district? What happens to the population of residents who A) do not fill out online forms, B) do not participate in community input like this), C) do not have the resources or bandwidth to help create and support their district? San Pablo Park neighborhood, West Berkeley, Left Bank are all names used for D2. It is a diverse neighborhood - like Sesame Street.
West Berkeley bears the brunt of the effects of the homeless population, physical (trash) and industrial pollution, and how public money is used in Berkeley.
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Crime reduction, clean streets (eliminate illegal dumping), affordable housing My neighborhood is considered South Berkeley. It seems that we are the forgotten neighborhood. We have been left out of upkeep and improvement efforts. Illegal dumping, stolen cars dumped and lack of upkeep of foliage and trees is making it unpleasant to say the least. This despite police cars being parked at the empty headstart building parking lot on the corner of Fairview and Sacramento for hours.
We are impacted mostly by the lack of action.
We are a diverse and peaceful community that looks out for each other and really want each other to thrive
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I'm not sure because although I'm very friendly, only of my neighbors take the time to speak and chat. Here are my interests though. Cultural and arts events; African American health and wellbeing; Health Equity; Economic Equity; Housing Equity; Housing Cooperatives; Cultural Centers; Recreation; Activities for Children and Youth; Food access and security; Senior benefits
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My community of interest is South West Berkeley beginning at Cedar and 4th Street and ending at 62nd and Adeline.
West Berkeley
South Berkeley
Loren District
Berkeley Black Community
State of Black Berkeley
How is your community impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council? My community is impacted in all areas of life and all of the social determinants of health are impacted by what the city funds and doesn't fund.
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The South Berkeley Community Based Organizations are very underfunded. There needs to be economic development programs for small businesses, start ups and small non-profits in my community.
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Public safety
Gourmet ghetto
We are more and more living in fear due to the increase of homeless and mentally ill people wandering our streets.
we are all tired of the handcuffs placed on our own BPD when it comes to public safety.
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diversity in ppl and architecture. nice flat and walkable, close to SF, Oakland, easy access South Berkeley
Very much impacted by the City Manager lack of enforcing our 2018 current sidewalk ordinances. No tents over 9sf (i.e. 3x3). District 3 is bearing the brunt of homeless encampments, meth dealing, aggravated assaults.
Ben Bartlett's 'equitable clean streets' act is NOT being enforced. Almost every street corner on Shattuck Ave (esp 8 blocks btwn Channing and Ward) has tent encampments/blight, effecting health, safety for businesses and residents. More and more boarded up shop fronts. Tim SouthWick Jr. - owner of Toyota Berkeley has tried to get the city to clear an active meth dealing tent for 2 years at Blake/Shattuck, with no success.
It's sad to see the split between North and South - hills/north getting city resources, moving along service-resistent homeless and letting then fester on the streets in South Berkeley. NO OK.
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Creating a safe neighborhood for my family. This would be a neighborhood that is walkable and bike friendly. I want the city to stop prioritizing cars with high speed limits and lack of traffic signals late at night. I want the city to prioritize the people who live in Berkeley rather than the homeless who litter our streets. I'd also like the city to stand up to UC Berkeley and their take over of our town.
Central Berkeley between Sacramento and downtown.
Greatly! The city council makes numerous decisions that impact us long term as residents while favoring transient students and homeless.
Berkeley could be such a beautiful Bay Area city. Instead it has turned into a unsafe and scary town overrun with homeless and crime.
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north Shattuck
We care about the environment, trees, city upkeep, art, ease of shopping, parking, good food, lovely parks, socializing. access to BART
From Marin Circle to University Avenue, from Grizzly Peak to Sacramento streets.
North Shattuck.
The repair of streets is terrible. Many potholes, rough roads.
Many homeless, mentally ill people without care on the streets.
Housing plans the city is taking on without considering the danger of fire, narrow streets, lack of additional parking and other hill housing concerns.
The uncoordinated stop signals at many intersections.
Excess curbs at Hopkins and the Alameda; who was paid off for this excess concrete? They are hazards, see attached photos with tire tracks of people who have run into them.
Not enough attention paid to those who must travel by car, who cannot bicycle.
North Shattuck is populated by people who care about Berkeley, the community, the environment, and who respect good planning and good city services.
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Strawberry Creek Park is an absolute focal point for our neighborhood (Poet'sCorner) -- Not only does it feature a deeply loved playground, but an adjacent Community Garden and Berkeley Youth Alternatives -- Not to mention the basketball, mini-soccer, tennis and volleyball courts. I worked hard with Laura Margulies to assure that bond money was spent to upgrade that park and have participated in several "parks cleanup" days with the Parks Dept and spearheaded by local neighbor and master gardener Stephen Moros.
In general, this is Poet's Corner. I would define this community bounded by Alston, Sacramento, Sacramento and Dwight St. I have lived in the community for twenty one years.
I am concerned that redistricting could split up this community. We all should remain in District 2.
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We have a very sweet community formed around strawberry creek with active family involvement.
Poets corner. University to dwight, Sacramento to San Pablo Funds for strawberry park. Actions on homelessness.
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Families raising young children, retirees and elders aging in place, multigenerational housing--all of whom patronize the businesses along the San Pablo and University corridors and make use of primary parks like San Pablo Park, Strawberry Creek Park & Aquatic Park. Neighbors band together to monitor safety & crime, pedestrian/bike safety, working closely with our new Councilmember Taplin. There is a cohesive atmosphere which underscores a sense of this being a true community of individuals, looking out for each other.
"Poet's Corner"--a new-ish name created by realtors, and which I believe refers to the greater area extending beyond the poet-named streets: south to San Pablo Park, the 9th St. bike boulevard to the west, north to University Ave., and east to Sacramento St. (Interestingly, University Ave. does seem to be a true dividing line and an appropriate boundary between D2 and D1, and somehow San Pablo does not divide the community.)
The growing development of housing and new business enterprises along San Pablo and the south side of University is largely supported by Poet's Corner neighbors. Improvement to abandoned, derelict properties is finally gaining steam after so many years of neglect.
Having Rosa Parks and now Oxford School within our community improves the street life in a wonderful way, with many kids and parents present both on foot and bicycle. The CoB's investments in both Strawberry Creek & San Pablo Parks have enhanced these existing gathering places, and to see how speedily neighbors have flocked to these green oases has been inspiring. (Check out either on a weekend afternoon--it's a wonderful sight!)
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Preserving the residential character of the neighborhood for the sake of livability. Ensuring the safety of the residents, for obvious reasons, meaning both crime prevention and optimal traffic/pedestrian flow.
For me, it's San Pablo to the west, University Ave to the south, Shattuck to the east, and maybe Vine to the north. I've heard "Northbrae" but it sounds more like a realtor construction than an identity to me.
The push on the part of the city to densify at any cost seems totally misguided to me. Berkeley is pretty well filled in compared to other locales, and turning it into another Emeryville or San Jose would be a shame. There's such a thing as livability, and CA is a state on the edge, subject to all sorts of natural violence. You can't build your way out of a lack of resources. And the fact that the city is pushing development of market rate rentals means that home ownership declines, which means loss of community and opportunity to build family wealth. This is simply wrong and the city could and should strive to change this. To me, this all presents as ambitious politicians climbing onto the state-level YIMBY bandwagon in hopes of moving up the ladder into the state senate. It does not present as honest brokers listening to their residents and trying to do what's best for the city.
It's stereotyped as bourgeoise and white but I looked up the demographics - it's pretty diverse despite all the PC rhetoric about redlining.
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Common interests: We share a commitment to Family, school, community events, shared political affiliations, diverse cultures, mixed low and middle income housing and proximity to shopping. We enjoy our Great walking and biking score!
The quality of all of these elements create the environment that makes living in Berkeley worth it. We pay high taxes, high rent and high housing costs to live in an area that is noisy and a bit crowded, but we look out for each other and appreciate what does work for us.
The neighborhood I call home extends from the Bay to Sacramento St , from University to Bancroft.
These are the blocks I am usually traversing. I have lived here with my family for over 30 years and am very much connected to my neighbors, particularly those on Byron Street and Cowper Street. We use Strawberry Park for recreation, swim at West Campus and spend time on San Pablo Ave shopping.
This area is known as the Poet's Corner.
Local government affects us in terms of traffic control. We are impacted by our proximity to San Pablo Ave and University Ave. Our streets need repaving, and considerations need to be made regarding the increased density brought on my the new construction on San Pablo Ave.
The vacant stores on San Pablo and University Ave are of concern. We want to encourage small business. The West Campus swimming pool is a great asset we want to preserve. The sports and playground at Strawberry Park are crucial. Bayer Lab construction may impact us. Parking may be more challenging with new apartments coming in. Our street trees need trimming. All this and more are impacted by the actions of the Council.
It’s definitely a neighborhood in transition - we have vacant commercial and simultaneously new investment on San Pablo Ave. There is increased commercial,and new mixed use development (more than any other except downtown) happening all around us. We are one of the most diverse districts.
We could use some more support. Terry Taplin has a large area of responsibility. The facilities at the waterfront are our recreation area. We'd love to see a proper ferry terminal and more restaurants near the water.
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our community is very diverse in nearly every category and I believe that most of us share an appreciation for this diversity. if we have a common interest it's perhaps that there continue to be a place for all of us in this neighborhood.
our neighborhood is called Poet's Corner and the boundaries are San Pablo to Sacramento, and University Ave to Dwight Way.
We surround Strawberry Creek Park and claim that space as an important community meeting place.
With a major park in the center of our community we are impacted by the actions the city does or does not take that changes the park. We also house Corp Yard and the vaccant lot that used to be part of the bowling green. We need to remain a district together so that we can decide collectively the future of that space.
We could really use more help from the city in trash collection. I wish the city looked at blocks with higher pop density and realized they need a concerted litter collection program. Bonar Street works hard to house more people than any other block in our neighborhood and that is often apparent by the amount of trash left out on the curb. It would be nice if the city gave that block a little extra attention given what it provides the city in housing.
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By the looks of things in my part of D-1, this is a townish and family (dwellings) area of the city. I see family activity and the retail and recreational which sustain them. There is no overt presence of UC students; they seem to be elsewhere. Retired friends gather here, internet junkies there.
San Pablo Avenue provides a traditionally gritty 'home' to a constant presence of lost and forgotten citizen/ghosts and their movable social spots.
My 'felt' boundaries, running from close-by San Pablo/Delaware as center, are: Addison (south); 9th St. (west); Gilman (north), indeterminate (east). Beyond are several commercial pockets--lower Gilman; Fourth St.; Berkeley Bowl west area (it's a treasure): Monterey/Hopkins--and strips: University Ave.; further San Pablo, our alimentary canal; and Shattuck and Solano Avenues.
Geographic contours of ancient Berkeley lie beneath a carpet of buildings and infrastructure. Our several creeks were culverted after a 1910 cholera outbreak but may be evoked by looking north or south along our numbered streets, whose undulations hint at long-ago creek beds.
Settlement along them has been de-emphasized historically, a riparian lifestyle we can only imagine today.
I call my area's center 'Cutthroat Corner' due to the several killings over ten years, but 'Almost Oceanview' will work as well.
We have our homeless (understandable) and our severely disturbed (not acceptable), left to their own and awaiting a deliverer.
The odious well-sold and gleefully-endorsed state housing bills of recent months will create scars and outrage all over the place. A bomb is about to land on the North Berkeley BART Station, and fortunes will be made.
Government up and down has been Trumpized into irreconcilable camps, including our council. Perhaps we'll find ourselves bailing together ..
Incremental loss of closed businesses and institutions--beloved, needed, helpfully close, and unique--festers in many hearts. I find myself asking, 'What happened? Where did everyone go?'
Berkeley is beiging. What an inspiring hue! The formerly rich sub-culture of music clubs, neat theaters, and Med-like coffee houses just had to go. It's economics-- nothing personal, or impersonal. The hard-edge replacements of cookie-cutter I-cafes, sandwich-and-chips joints, pricey boutiques and gourmet restaurants seem like placeholders for some future resurrection of what was. Old Brennan's warmed the community in its large green hall; nothing has replaced it. Or will be, by the current power brokers.
Covid-19 aside, I have little desire to hit the town anymore. What is Berkeley's branding now, dead laurels?
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I am part of a vibrant neighborhood group established probably in the 1980s, when former fire chief Bill Brock and his wife initiated annual gatherings during National Night Out. For the last 13 years since I moved to Ada Street, our neighborhood group has worked together sharing safety concerns and looking out for each other. We currently have 65 households in our group. We are in touch via email. We meet annually. We know each other by name. We have a neighborhood earthquake cache and a neighbor on Ordway offers trainings. All of Ada Street below Sacramento should be in District 1, where we used to be. When the lines were redrawn, they went right down the middle of our street. As a neighborhood we are impacted by development plans at N. Berkeley BART, Ruth Acty School traffic and events, Cedar-Rose Park events, traffic on Hopkins and the Ohlone Greenway—all in District 1. We should be rejoined with District 1.
Our neighborhood group currently includes 65 homes along Ada Street from Ordway to Acton and about halfway up the next block toward Sacramento. It includes most homes on Ordway from Hopkins to Rose, several homes on Rose and on Hopkins that back to Ada between Ordway and Acton, and most homes on Acton from Hopkins to Ada. Everyone in these blocks are welcome in our group. When you redraw the lines, if a street needs to be split down the middle, it shouldn't be a quiet short street like Ada; it should be a busy through street with double yellow lines, like Hopkins from Ordway to Acton.
Also, if Ordway between Hopkins and Ada is split down the middle, it too should be reincorporated into District 1.
We are impacted by traffic on Hopkins and the Ohlone Greenway, and by traffic on Acton, Ordway, and Ada, where many drivers like to ignore stop signs. The recent repaving of Ada Street to replace the crumbling roadway that was installed about 35 years ago will improve the safety of kids and grownups on foot and bikes, but already drivers who don't live in our neighborhood are speeding down our street. We appreciate the new pavement. Now we need to lobby for speed bumps.
Development plans at N. Berkeley BART will affect parking on our streets, and the removal of parking at the station could jeopardize the safety of elderly and disabled neighbors, even those who live w/i walking distance. A high-rise apartment building will negatively affect the character of the neighborhood. Where are those people going to park? Not everyone is young, mobile, and fit.
We are educated, active, diverse, interested in social justice, a mix of young families with children, new retirees, and the elderly. We can walk or bicycle to most destinations. We look out for each other. We share resources. We would like to be back in District 1, where we were for many years before the lines were redrawn. Here on Ada Street between Ordway and Acton we have a different representative than the folks across the street, and we lost our voting place, and it feels like we lost our voice. Ten people on Ada Street lobbying for, say, a painted crosswalk at Ordway and Hopkins have about 15% the effect of 65 households lobbying for the same. On Ada between Acton and Sacramento everyone lives across the street from Ruth Acty Elementary and Crowden Music School, which are both in District 1. We all belong in District 1.
1 Bunting, Sarah K.
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Hi, there.
I previously submitted a form, but I just updated my responses. Please include the attached PDF in your deliberations on redistricting.
Our neighborhood group, currently 65 homes, was established probably in the 1980s, when former fire chief Bill Brock and his wife initiated annual National Night Out neighborhood gatherings. The black oval in the District 1 map below shows the general area of our group. It runs along Ada Street from Ordway to Acton and about halfway up the next block toward Sacramento. It includes homes on Ordway from Hopkins to Rose, several homes on Rose and on Hopkins that back to Ada between Ordway and Acton, and most homes on Acton from Hopkins to Ada. The backbone of the group is Ada Street. Everyone in this oval is welcome in our group.
The red lines in the image below show how I would like to see the lines redrawn. If a street needs to be split down the middle, it should be a busy street with a double yellow line, like Hopkins from Ordway to Acton. Ada Street should not be split down the middle. All of Ada Street below Sacramento belongs in District 1, where it was for many years. If Ordway between Hopkins and Ada is also split down the middle, it too should be reintegrated into District 1.
Please see the attached PDF for more details on our group. Thank you!
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Hi, there.
I filled out the attached form. Downloaded it from Berkeleyside.
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My communities of interest are students and renters. I moved to Berkeley in 2016 to work for a non-profit, and have since enrolled in a PhD program at Cal. UC Berkeley has about 40,000 students, most of whom live in Berkeley, thus students represent about a third of Berkeley’s population. According to the most-recent ACS estimates, renters represent about two-thirds of the Berkeley population. The renting population is probably half students.
There is considerable overlap between renters and students, and we are concentrated in the areas around Berkeley main campus and the two BART stations. As I look at the maps already submitted, I think that Alfred Twu’s “Compact Donut” map does a good job of collecting the main student populations into 2 districts on the southside and the areas just west and north of the main campus. It’s unfortunate that we don’t have 9 districts to work with, as I think— for population balancing purposes—Alfred Twu’s map is unable to extend far enough North-South along the Shattuck corridor or far enough south on the Telegraph corridor to create 3 renter/student districts (Southside, Northside and “Westside”). Stephen Young’s excellent map (which has several nice innovations, including taking the hillier parts of current Districts 5 and 6 and combining them into a single district) creates a district for the Northside renting community, but, in the process, splits the student population along the North and West sides into minority voting blocks (given lower turnout among students)—which is my reason for preferring Alfred Twu’s map.
Based on the fractions presented above, a representative city council of 8 members would have 5 or 6 members fighting for issues important to renters, and 2 or 3 members would be looking out for students. I think that our interests focus on up-zoning, creating more housing of all kinds and on good access to public transit.
Although it is likely not within the power of IRC to propose a 9 district map, adding more districts would allow for better representation of the diverse set of communities of interest in Berkeley. The current 8 district system has been in place since 1923 or 1924. In 1920, Berkeley’s population was 56 thousand and in 1930 it was 82 thousand meaning that each district has grown in population by roughly 80%, and each councilmember represents 6 or 7 thousand more people than the original council members. If current projection of population growth hold, the size of the districts will have more than doubled (compared to 1924 levels) by the next redistricting in 2030. Along with it’s new 8 district map of Berkeley, I urge the IRC to recommend that City Council take appropriate steps to add a 9th district in the 2030 redistricting process.
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The community in this neighborhood is tied together not only by our geographical proximity and walkability of the neighborhood but our shared interest in many activities that are within walking distance in the nearby Downtown and Theatre districts. Also because of our close proximity to the University, we also share the common interests of cultural and intellectual events held on the UC Berkeley campus.
The community bounded by Dwight Way (South) and University Ave (North) and MLK (East) and Sacramento (West) is a walkable and historic neighborhood (Spaulding-McGee tract).
We are currently well represented by Councilmember Kate Harrison.
Please do not break up this community by drawing lines which would bisect the natural geographic boundaries of this community.
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The Flatlands.
As a resident of the Flatlands since 1969, I have a strong interest in how District 4 is drawn or redrawn. When I first moved here, the neighborhood bounded by Shattuck/University/Sacramento/Dwight Way was primarily a working class area, predominantly white, but with some black families on Jefferson and Spaulding. It was a fairly tight community, located between the student/University area to the east, the historic black community to the west. There were lots of families here and a lot of kids. My son grew up & went to Washington school in this area. I worked hard to build a tot lot on Roosevelt and get a barrier at Channing & Roosevelt as well as a stop sign on McGee. (Pedestrian safety is still a major worry here, though) The housing used to be affordable. No longer, of course, like the rest of Berkeley.
My neighborhood on Channing Way has been affected by the homeless crisis. Because we have a free box on Channing, between Roosevelt ...
As a resident of the Flatlands since 1969, I have a strong interest in how District 4 is drawn or redrawn.
When I first moved here, the neighborhood bounded by Shattuck/University/Sacramento/Dwight Way was primarily a working class area, predominantly white, but with some black families on Jefferson and Spaulding. It was a fairly tight community, located between the student/University area to the east, the historic black community to the west. There were lots of families here and a lot of kids. My son grew up & went to Washington school in this area. I worked hard to build a tot lot on Roosevelt and get a barrier at Channing & Roosevelt as well as a stop sign on McGee. (Pedestrian safety is still a major worry here, though) The housing used to be affordable. No longer, of course, like the rest of Berkeley.
My neighborhood on Channing Way has been affected by the homeless crisis. Because we have a free box on Channing, between Roosevelt & McGee, we get a lot of homeless traffic from Downtown. Also, until we, reluctantly, agreed to have parking restrictions, the streets were jammed with UC students' parking. We supported making Channing Way a bike street although the condition of the road makes biking hazardous.
The park area on the Ohlone strip was a great addition to the area. Aside from the park at Washington (where I participated in the redesign and addition of a regulation size basketball court when I was chair of the remodel committee) and the Tot Lot on Roosevelt, there isn't a lot of open space in our neighborhood. Civic Center Park was for so many years not a hospitable space. There is still a great deal of drug dealing going on there, probably migrating down from Shattuck.
While much has changed, a lot hasn't. There's still a strong culture of neighborliness and cooperation.
And a sense that this is the area where the much-talked-about middle class lives. I would like to keep and strengthen that. So adding in Shattuck Ave. with all the new apartments being built there (which I support) would dramatically alter the character of my neighborhood.
For the same rationale, it's never been clear to me what the areas north of Ohlone were doing in District
4. University is a natural boundary and the two areas are different in character.
Lastly, I want to say that opening the Downtown Berkeley BART station was a game-changer. It made commuting to SF almost a pleasure. It's perfect for my niece (who lives with me) who works in Castro Valley and doesn't own a car. Being within walking/biking distance to both Berkeley Bowl and Trader Joe's is also a plus.
So I'd like to see a District 4 as bounded by University/Shattuck/Dwight Way/Sacramento. Thank you for your consideration.
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Strawberry Creek Park brings our neighbors together - park should be in one district with all of its surrounds.
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Street, 1st Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704
District 2
Culture, history, community - preservation of those
Black Repertory Group has been a vital part of that for almost 60 years South Berkeley, Adeline Corridor
Redistricting such that would exclude Black Repertory Group from district 2 will mean that Black Repertory group and the commitment BRG has to district 2 and the community has to BRG are not being recognized or considered. please keep Black Repertory Group in district 2
Community of Interest Form
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Which district do you live in? If you’re not sure, write your address and we’ll look it up:
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What are the common interests in your community? Describe how they are important:
Explain the geographical location of your community of interest. What are the boundaries? Does your community/neighborhood have a name?
How is your community impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council?
What else would you like to tell us about your community? Add more pages if you need to.
Online web form available at cityofberkeley.info/redistricting/ Questions or comments? Submit this form by:
Email the Independent Redistricting Commission:
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Mapping Berkeley Communities: Redistricting by the People.
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Mail: City Clerk Dept., 2180 Milvia
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I live and work in the Lorin District. The Lorin District 2 is historical African American community. I would like the community to remain unchanged and that Black Reperatorty Group remain in the district.
Community of Interest Form
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Which district do you live in? If you’re not sure, write your address and we’ll look it up:
District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4
District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8
Online web form available at cityofberkeley.info/redistricting/ Questions or comments? Submit this form by:
Email the Independent Redistricting Commission:
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Mapping Berk
eley Communities: Redistricting by the People.
Email:
[email protected]
In person: City Clerk Department,
2180 Milvia Street, 1st Floor
Mail: City Clerk Dept., 2180 Milvia
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What are the common interests in your community? Describe how they are important:
Protect neighborhood resources of light, air, space, open areas, common spaces Help neighbors and be vigilant for diverse communities who have been marginalized/victimized - particularly Muslim people, Asians and African Americans who reside in our immediate neighborhood.
We live near/adjacent to Shattuck, with lots of traffic in and out of Berkeley and so we keep an eye out for each other.
Socializing in the neighborhood is important - especially since the pandemic. Our door gatherings are now a thing.
Watching our for children and making sure that traffic -vehicular and pedestrian- respect the ability of children to run around and play outside in a positive environment.
Solar access for gardens and solar panels is a concern in our neighborhood in every house. Our western sky/space is especially important for the sunlight, air and views.
The area is densely populated with small houses, apartments, coop houses and group living. With this density and close proximity people are very respectful.
Explain the geographical location of your community of interest. What are the boundaries? Does your community/neighborhood have a name?
Walker Street has become our gathering spot - that runs between Derby and Ward that runs from Shattuck on the West to east of Fulton. We also have gatherings on Fulton with the blocks running East up towards Telegraph. Walker Street is a frequent name for our neighborhood.
How is your community impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council? The city council has a huge impact on our neighborhood. We consistently feel left out of a meaningful dialog. Basically, we organize dozens of people, on many occasions to get noticed.
The proximity of South Shattuck means that decisions/actions on or about the commercial district have a direct impact on us: from delivery trucks to Honda backing up at 5 am beeping, construction, unsheltered folks, the fire station, future building plans, police, buses, foot traffic to the Berkeley Bowl, Kerala - whatever - good, wonderful, bad, depressing - are always a factor.
The City Council,while sometimes individually attentive, seem to collectively regard us an irritant, and merely caricatures they smirk at on Zoom. We are at the friction point between a neighborhood of people and their grand schemes.
What else would you like to tell us about your community? Add m
ore pages if you need to.
People in our neighborhood get along and smile at each other.
1 Bunting, Sarah K.
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To: Independent Redistricting Commission
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Hi Redistricting Commission
I would like to add our support of the map that will be submitted today from the BNC (Berkeley Neighborhood Council). (Please consider this a withdrawal of support for Harold Rosenberg's map suggested below). Thank you for your email confirmation in advance.
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Common interests and why they're important:
Many African Americans (AA) moved to South Berkeley during WW2 to support the war effort. They were restricted from living in other parts of Berkeley due to redlining laws. Together, with other newcomers from Asia and Central America, they shaped the neighborhood into a thriving community which reflected their cultural, artistic, religious and political beliefs. Key tenets of our historical neighborhood are shared by my community members today. Those beliefs include, but are not limited to, respecting the civil rights for every citizen, housing rights for all, rights to jobs and a right to worship.
The faith community is actively engaged in supporting the values upheld by my community and is represented with churches scattered around South Berkeley. For example, The Church by The Side of the Road located east of Shattuck on Russell St. is leading a consortium of church leaders in the mentoring of young people.The Ephesian Church, with the active support of community groups in this area, is committed to building low/low-income housing on its site. The Buddhist Temple on Russell is also engaged in service in the community and is a welcoming place to families and neighbors for outdoor weekend lunches.
There are many places of interest and programs serving my community like Kiwi Pediatrics on Alcatraz, Healthy Black Families, The Farmer's Market on Adeline/62nd, the NAACP office on Adeline, Community Acupuncture on Sacramento and the Women's Cancer Resource Center on Ellsworth. The Berkeley Bowl has a special place in our community. They sell foods representing many cultures in our neighborhood and it's also a place to run into your neighbors.
The shared interests of the community are also reflected in annual cultural activities like Juneteenth as well arts organizations like Youth Spirit Artworks,The Black Repertory Theater and The Ashby Stage. We also created a beautiful mural on Ashby Avenue at Ellis Street which depicts our history and local neighborhood heroes. It truly captures the spirit of our neighborhood. (See photos enclosed separately.)
2 And schools like Malcolm X at Ashby and Ellis Streets and Sylvia Mendez on Ellsworth (which is the only Spanish immersion school in the City) have been instrumental in educating and fostering pride in our children about the history of our neighborhood and it's contributions to the community and to the city at large.
Explain the geographical location of your community of interest. What are the boundaries? Does your community/neighborhood have a name?
This area is known as South Berkeley.The current geographic location is Dwight Way on the North, Ellsworth on the East, 62nd on the South and Sacramento and California on South.
The eastern swath of this area (from Dwight on the North going south on Ellsworth to Ashby and moving slightly westward at Deakin) should remain intact to represent the shared interests (stated above) of this community.
Additionally, the southern swath of this District (going from Dwight on the North to 62nd on the South) is instrumental in reflecting the common shared interests of our community.
Based on the maps that have been submitted to date, Howard Rosenberg's map looks the closest to what we might envision for District #3 if it was necessary to change any of the current boundaries.
How is your community impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council?
Our neighborhood is affected by the lack of support from the City Council for low/low income housing, as the City remains focused on securing deals with developers who build housing for mid‐income and high‐income earners.
We need housing for people who have household incomes of $60K or less. We believe that housing is a human right.
We are affected by the lack of accountability from our police department. Evidence of racial profiling is clearly established in the number of pullovers by BPD, especially relative to the city's overall population as evidenced by the 2018 report
here:https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Police_Review_Commission/Commissions/2018/Berkeley% 20Report%20-%20May%202018.pdf
An amendment to the City Charter was passed in November to create an impartial Police Accountability Board.
It had the support of 85% of the voters. The amendment states that the the new Board is independent of the City Manager and reports to the Council directly. My community is keen to see greater evidence that this is in play. Additionally, the City Council unanimously passed a police reform bill in February, we are still waiting for the full implementation of these important reforms. The police budgets, use of weapons, surveillance and body cameras and training must be transparent to all of us.
During CoVid the ACT bus service was cut back. Since Covid is hopefully on the wane, it would be ideal to reinstate the bus service going east/west down Ashby Avenue for everyone. It helps students going to Willard or MX or even to UC (transfer at Adeline or Shattuck). If you are elderly and want to go to the Credit Union which moved to San Pablo from Adeline/Ashby, and don't drive, the bus service is essential. It is too far to walk. Given the importance of driving less (reducing climate change), supporting additional bus service is key.
1 Bunting, Sarah K.
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Common interests and why they're important:
Many African Americans (AA) moved to South Berkeley during WW2 to support the war effort. They were restricted from living in other parts of Berkeley due to redlining laws. Together, with other newcomers from Asia and Central America, they shaped the neighborhood into a thriving community which reflected their cultural, artistic, religious and political beliefs. Key tenets of our historical neighborhood are shared by my community members today. Those beliefs include, but are not limited to, respecting the civil rights for every citizen, housing rights for all, rights to jobs and a right to worship.
The faith community is actively engaged in supporting the values upheld by my community and is represented with churches scattered around South Berkeley. For example, The Church by The Side of the Road located east of Shattuck on Russell St. is leading a consortium of church leaders in the mentoring of young people.The Ephesian Church, with the active support of community groups in this area, is committed to building low/low-income housing on its site. The Buddhist Temple on Russell is also engaged in service in the community and is a welcoming place to families and neighbors for outdoor weekend lunches.
There are many places of interest and programs serving my community like Kiwi Pediatrics on Alcatraz, Healthy Black Families, The Farmer's Market on Adeline/62nd, the NAACP office on Adeline, Community Acupuncture on Sacramento and the Women's Cancer Resource Center on Ellsworth. The Berkeley Bowl has a special place in our community. They sell foods representing many cultures in our neighborhood and it's also a place to run into your neighbors.
The shared interests of the community are also reflected in annual cultural activities like Juneteenth as well arts organizations like Youth Spirit Artworks,The Black Repertory Theater and The Ashby Stage. We also created a beautiful mural on Ashby Avenue at Ellis Street which depicts our history and local neighborhood heroes. It truly captures the spirit of our neighborhood. (See photos enclosed separately.)
And schools like Malcolm X at Ashby and Ellis Streets and Sylvia Mendez on Ellsworth (which is the only Spanish immersion school in the City) have been instrumental in educating and fostering pride in our children about the history of our neighborhood and it's contributions to the community and to the city at large.
Explain the geographical location of your community of interest. What are the boundaries? Does your
community/neighborhood have a name?
2 This area is known as South Berkeley.The current geographic location is Dwight Way on the North, Ellsworth on the East, 62nd on the South and Sacramento and California on South.
The eastern swath of this area (from Dwight on the North going south on Ellsworth to Ashby and moving slightly westward at Deakin) should remain intact to represent the shared interests (stated above) of this community.
Additionally, the southern swath of this District (going from Dwight on the North to 62nd on the South) is instrumental in reflecting the common shared interests of our community.
Based on the maps that have been submitted to date, Howard Rosenberg's map looks the closest to what we might envision for District #3 if it was necessary to change any of the current boundaries.
How is your community impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council? Our neighborhood is affected by the lack of support from the City Council for low/low income housing, as the City remains focused on s
ecuring deals with developers who build housing for mid‐income and high‐income earners.
We need housing for people who have household incomes of $60K or less. We believe that housing is a human right.
We are affected by the lack of accountability from our police department. Evidence of racial profiling is clearly established in the number of pullovers by BPD, especially relative to the city's overall population as evidenc ed
by the 2018 report
here:https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Police_Review_Commission/Commissions/ 2018/Berkeley%
20Report%20-%20May%202018.pdf
An amendment to the City Charter was passed in November to create an impartial Police Accountability Board.
It had the support of 85% of the voters. The amendment states that the the new Board is independent of the City Manager and reports to the Council directly. My community is keen to see greater evidence that this is in play. Additionally, the City Council unanimously passed a police reform bill in February, we are still waiting for the full implementation of these important reforms. The police budgets, use of weapons, surveillance and body
cameras and training must be transparent to all of us.
During CoVid the ACT bus service was cut back. Since Covid is hopefully on the wane, it would be ideal to reinstate the bus service
going east/west down Ashby Avenue for everyone. It helps students going to Willard or MX or even to UC (transfer at Adeline or Shattuck. If you are elderly and want to go to the Credit Union
which moved to San Pablo from Adeline/Ashby, and don't drive, the bus service is essential. It is too far to walk. Given the importance of driving less (reducing climate change, supporting additi onal bus service is key.
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There are several common interests in our community: we are a transit oriented community bounded by BART, AC Transit and cars looking for parking once BART depletes the number of spaces.It makes sense to sever the district at Sacramento Street since the communities East of Sacramento do not have the same interests, development and history as the communities West of Sacramento. It is a community of interest because it has a major street that runs all the way to the hills and down to the Bay, East to West. It is a community of interest because it includes a highway as a street (San Pablo Ave).
Furthermore, the community is also one that experiences toxic fumes from industrial corporate concerns. Finally, it is a community of interest because several of the houses are still owned by people of color who were not allowed to buy homes east of Sacramento.
Geograpically it is a community of interest because it includes the Berkeley Marina district and so should expand past University (not stop there as it does now). Geographically , the community is flat and down hill from the rest of Berkeley. The community is also an international community from the Brazilian cultural center, to Spanish table, to the Halal restaurants, our community is international and cosmopolitan.
The community is impacted by the lack of adequate lighting on the street preventing people who want to walk to and from BART during the dark winter days. The community is also impacted by the lack of city regulation of toxic industry in the district, and a lack of an adequate safety plan if something should happen to the industry (as the 2018 Berkeley Asphalt fire demonstrated) or to the gas pipeline that runs north - south by the Berkeley Marina. The Community is also impacted by the traffic on San Pablo and the lack of planning for a community in the San Pablo corridor. Although the community is part of a whole, we are often not invited as a whole community to meet and talk and congregate as a community with the city officials.
The community houses several families. It really is a community about families, schools and play grounds. The community is a conduit for evacuation from the hills if there should be a fire emergency.The community also is a nexus for growth over the next decade. The community includes Cedar up until Sacramento, West to Oceanview and the Marina. The community also currently houses a great majority of the unhoused people in Berkeley and these unhoused people live in the most heavily polluted areas in the city such as Harrison Street and also close to Berkeley Asphalt on 2nd street.
MAP WE SUPPORT: We are supporting the BNC redistricting map with one minor change. We suggest that the around the Berkeley BART the line should be extended to Sacramento West side of the street.
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Community of Interest Form
Optional – Name / Email:
Which district do you live in? If you’re not sure, write your address and we’ll look it up:
District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4
District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8
What are the common interests in your community? Describe how they are important:
Explain the geographical location of your community of interest. What are the boundaries? Does your community/neighborhood have a name?
How is your community impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council? What else would you like to tell us about your community? Add more pages if you need to.
Online web form available at cityofberkeley.info/redistricting/ Questions or comments? Submit this form by:
Email the Independent Redistricting Commission:
[email protected]
Mapping Ber
keley Communities: Redistricting by the People.
Email:
[email protected]
In person: City Clerk Department,
2180 Milvia Street, 1st Floor
Mail: City Clerk Dept., 2180 Milvia
Street, 1st Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704
- Renters
- Pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders
- Students
This is concentrated in the areas with a high density of renters, including Downtown, southside blocks south of the current District 7, Clark Kerr campus, and "northside" up to Virginia Street.
City policies on tenant protections and housing development affect the renter community very closely.
Renters are also more likely to walk instead of drive than other communities, are more likely to be affected by street safety issues, and are concentrated in highly walkable areas.
The renter community is overwhelmed in the current districting by being split among districts dominated by homeowners. Renters vote less frequently than homeowners as a community and are therefore further drowned out. We need an additional district that protects and represents the significant number of renters in the City, such as the donut district on the map proposed by Alfred Twu, one draft example attached.
Community of Interest Form
Optional – Name / Email:
Which district do you live in? If you’re not sure, write your address and we’ll look it up:
District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4
District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8
What are the common interests in your community? Describe how they are important:
Online web form available at cityofberkeley.info/redistricting/ Questions or comments? Submit this form by:
Email the Independent Redistricting Commission:
[email protected]
Mapping Berk
eley Communities: Redistricting by the People.
Email:
[email protected]
In person: City Clerk Department,
2180 Milvia Street, 1st Floor
Mail: City Clerk Dept., 2180 Milvia
Street, 1st Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704
1) Housing affordability. As renters, and especially for residents of new buildings, downtown residents are among the most impacted by the high cost of housing in Berkeley.
2) Bike/pedestrian/transit access & safety. Downtown residents are among the least likely to own an automobile in Berkeley, yet Downtown also accounts for some of the highest pedestrian injury streets. We rely on non-automobile forms of transportation to visit other neighborhoods and destinations.
3) Homelessness. Downtown Berkeley has the highest concentration of visible homelessness of anywhere in Berkeley, and many of our homeless residents are longtime neighbors who simply have nowhere else to go.
Explain the geographical location of your community of interest. What are the boundaries? Does your community/neighborhood have a name?
My community is Downtown Berkeley. Downtown is bordered by Hearst to the north, Oxford/Fulton to the east, Dwight to the south, and MLK to the west.
How is your community impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council? What else would you like to tell us about your community? Add more pages if you need to.
Downtown Berkeley is an incredibly diverse community of over 6,000 residents, 95% of whom are renters. Downtown is comprised of students, young professionals, immigrants, families, retirees, and long-time residents alike, including both housed and unhoused neighbors.
Downtown has been historically considered "everyone's neighborhood" because of the diverse commercial and leisure activities and the access to transit and major institutions (UC Berkeley, LBNL, City of Berkeley). However, for the thousands of people who call Downtown home on a daily basis, it is also a residential community, where we need to be able to get home safely and comfortably at night, have non-automotive transportation options that make it easy to get to our destinations, and have enough housing options and tenant protections to keep rent affordable. City Council has historically neglected the residential experience in Downtown Berkeley.
Downtown Berkeley is most similar to the mixed-use and medium density neighborhoods immediately north and south along Shattuck Avenue. Because the most unifying experience of living in Downtown is "renters who don't have cars", other neighborhoods with high concentrations of renters who don't have cars are particularly good matches for joining into a Council district. Other campus periphery areas, such as Northside or Southside, are good candidates.
Because renters in Berkeley typically vote at lower rates than homeowners (for a variety of reasons - in Downtown, many renters are either immigrants ineligible to vote, or students who register to vote in their hometown), Berkeley's renter-heavy neighborhoods should be grouped together to help achieve better representation. Renters are 60% of Berkeley's population, yet only 3 of our 8 Council districts today are represented by renters.
Community of Interest Form
Optional – Name / Email:
Which district do you live in? If you’re not sure, write your address and we’ll look it up:
District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4
District 5 District 6 District 7 District 8
What are the common interests in your community? Describe how they are important:
Explain the geographical location of your community of interest. What are the boundaries? Does your community/neighborhood have a name?
How is your community impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council?
What else would you like to tell us about your community? Add more pages if you need to.
Online web form available at cityofberkeley.info/redistricting/ Questions or comments? Submit this form by:
Email the Independent Redistricting Commission:
[email protected]
Mapping Berkeley Communities: Redistricting by the People.
Email:
[email protected]
In person: City Clerk Department,
2180 Milvia Street, 1st Floor
Mail: City Clerk Dept., 2180 Milvia
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Berkeley's Black community was once a vibrant core of the city with churches, businesses, homeowners and tenants in primarily South Berkeley's area which now falls into "District 3." In part due to the pernicious practices of Redlining, racially restrictive covenants on deeds and racist realtor practices, 'Sundown Laws,' and other ways to segregate our community, we nonetheless persisted in maintaining our rightful place in the community that we largely helped build. We have history and ancestors in common; many of us moved in the migration west from the Deep South after slavery and Jim Crow, many of us share a deep and abiding faith in God (Black Christian Churches are historic pillars of the city for a hundred years: Church by the Side of the Road, McGee Ave Baptist Church, St. Paul's AME Church, Ephesians Church, Phillips AME, etc) We also have a Muslim community who worship in local mosques. Our proud Black community - we have foods, customs and traditions in common. Berkeley hosts one of the oldest Juneteenth Celebrations in the state. Our community is described in Wikipedia: "South Berkeley is a neighborhoold in the city of Berkeley,CA. It extends roughly from Dwight Way to city's border with Oakland, between Telegraph Ave in east and either Sacramento St or San Pablo in west. This neighborhood is the center for Berkeley's African-American community, with a population of 9,341 that is roughly 52% African-American...
During WWII, Camp Ashby was established for African American soldiers.Dr. William Byron Rumford pharmacy (legislator) 3332 Adeline St landmark South Berkeley Bank, once anchored Lorin business district streetcar. Mildred and Mable Howard.
The city's decisions have tacitly or explictly allowed racial segregation and discrimination(read Prof. Rothstein's The Color of Law). The city's failure to implement a 'racial equity lense' has allowed massive market rate housing development, displacing many Black people, and not doing more to ensure affordable housing built. Now the city is prioritizing "Equitable" anti-displacement programs (but the lost opportunity has displaced our 40% of the city population down to a mere 8% in a very short time)City funds 60% of its budget to police and disinvested from community programs, mental health, job training, housing subsidies, and public safety measures to prevent escalation of crime or violence. If the city dilutes the strong base of Black neighborhoods by improper map redistricting, we are erased/Extinct.Black businesses also need more support.
Black academics, artists and activists are a core part of our community; housing should be available to ensure Black members thrive in our historic district that should be deemed the Black Community Historical Zone.The Adeline Corridor and So Berkeley needs to not be further displaced or diluted. Berkeley NAACP, BEEMA and other Black organizations in Berkeley strongly urge that District 3 remain without alteration. Specifically: McGee Ave Baptist Church should not be placed into District, 2, nor should Church by Side of Road be drawn into District 8. Without exception, the new African American Holistic Resource Center @1890 Alcatraz, Black Rep, Ephesians,Ebenezer,McGee, Phillips, St.Paul's must remain 'as is'
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Subject: Ancestral Concerns from Berkeley African-American/Black Communities.
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Please accept the attached form submitted by the Berkeley Branch of the NAACP regarding redistricting of District 3. We have significant concerns about the possible relocation of African‐American/Black Ancestral sites in District 3; therefore, the attached form documents our position regarding South Berkeley redistricting. Moving forward, we trust that the Independent Redistricting Commission will consider our concerns. Thank You
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I live on the upper side of the "Oceanview" in Northwest Berkeley (above 6th Street but below San Pablo). This is one of the oldest communities in Berkeley (and was actually annexed by Berkeley at the turn of the 20th century). While the community is in the late stages of gentrification, it started out - and still retains the DNA - of having a working-class neighborhood, which includes many Craftsman-style homes (and a few Victorians), built by blue-collar workers for their families. It also retains a - albeit diminishing - level of racial and socioeconomic diversity as one of the only neighborhood in which restrictive covenants were not placed on housing (as a formerly redlined area). This area bounds the MU-R and MU-LI areas, and neighborhoods have striven to coexist with industry that would now be deemed to be incompatible with residential - and has embraced the ecosystem of small manufacturing, arts, and crafts businesses, some of whose owners reside in live- work units in the neighborhood.
The Oceanview District is roughly bounded by San Pablo on the East Side, the waterfront on the West Side, Gilman St. on the North Side, and University Ave. on the South Side. However, our community arguably has more in common with the entire area below San Pablo than other neighborhoods. We certainly have more in common with other areas below Sacramento (roughly bounded by the North Berkeley BART) than areas to the east of Sacramento.
We have been particularly impacted by issues dealing with residential-industrial boundaries and relationships (such as the ongoing air quality saga with the Berkeley Asphalt plant) and retaining the arts, crafts, and artisanal nature of the MU-R district. Agree or disagree with the proposal, our neighborhood was also significantly impacted by the Council decision to transition away from single- family zoning, given that the majority of our neighborhood that's not mixed industrial is zoned as R-1 or R-1A.
For your consideration, a West Berkeley Business District oriented map proposal has been created (most districts except 2 are within less than 1% of the threshold for compactness, the least compact district is D6 and it's within 3.6%).
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West Berkeley Business District Map
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Common Interests-in Maintaining Greater Flatlands Berkeley Residential Neighborhood District:
Reflect Actual Residential Neighborhood Greater Flatlands Boundaries (North & South Berkeley Flatlands and North Berkeley Flatlands) as a Contiguous District
District Equal Configuration—Intact Greater Flatlands Center Encircled by Equal-sized districts.
Non-Flatlands areas have not densified at a rate equal to that in the flatlands Districts 1, 2 & 7, closely followed by District 4 & then District 3.
District 3 is currently undergoing densification construction. To begin to equalize the population allocation between District, those areas without densification but adjacent to density should absorb some of the new densification as part of their geographic expansion. Population added to those Districts (5, 6 & 8) from Downtown or North Shattuck, without breaking up the long-standing Flatlands residential ...
2. Geographical Location of Greater Flatlands Community of Interest Definition: Greater Flatlands—North Berkeley flatlands plus Historical North & South Flatlands [Original Berkeley] Originally the greater flatlands were defined as the farms between the town of Ocean View (West Berkeley maritime fishing) and UCB & its’ railstop (UCB & Downtown), Lorin Adeline to the South, and Cedar/Westbrae/Northbrae to the North. North Berkeley flatlands run from Cedar or Virginia south to UA, from Curtis or Chestnut to MLK or Milvia (See Map B). The original North Flatlands is McGee’s Farm, together with Spaulding & Hardy Tracts. South Flatlands are Dwight to Ashby/ from Sacramento or Curtis to MLK, Milvia, Shattuck or Haste. The greater flatlands are larger than the area generally described as “Central Berkeley” (Hearst to Dwight/Sacramento to MLK) (MAP B).
We would prefer our District boundaries to include all of the greater Berkeley flatlands. Our transportation main roads are University Avenue, ..... .Our community is impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council by the following:
City government is located within District 4 and within Central Berkeley flatlands, so we are impacted by City employee and resident traffic and by its construction and expansion both in terms of people and building infrastructure. Corp yard traffic to and from City Hall cuts through our local streets. Central Berkeley has the greatest density of pre-school through-high schools across the City. Many of the City’s homeless services are located in Central Berkeley.
Traffic impacts result from development without active residential community engagement (more than a yellow notice is required).
Council actions on creeks impact Strawberry Creek intersecting the District. The Downtown Area has been expanded by City Council action across Milvia to MLK and from Center to University Avenue and south to Dwight with relaxed development standards. Downtown has been ...
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Common Interests-in Maintaining Greater Flatlands Berkeley Residential Neighborhood District:
Reflect Actual Residential Neighborhood Greater Flatlands Boundaries (North & South Berkeley Flatlands and North Berkeley Flatlands) as a Contiguous District
District Equal Configuration— Intact Greater Flatlands Center Encircled by Equal-sized districts.
Non-Flatlands areas have not densified at a rate equal to that in the flatlands Districts 1, 2 & 7, closely followed by District 4 & then District 3. District 3 is currently undergoing densification construction. To begin to equalize the population allocation between District, those areas without densification but adjacent to density should absorb some of the new densification as part of their geographic expansion.
Population added to those Districts (5, 6 & 8) from Downtown or North Shattuck, without breaking up the long-standing Flatlands residential neighborhood communities, who have shared commonalities of interest.
By allocating Downtown, where more of the newest density is disproportionately located, among Districts 5 & 6 as well as 8, to add contiguous new density to each of the Districts, which failed to densify within existing boundaries, is a fair way to allocate the disproportionate new density. Downtown and North Shattuck are economically tied to Districts 5 & 6. District 7 has continued to densify over the decades and cannot further expand its student base to include Downtown.
Instead of the number of Districts staying constant, Districts were reduced to 4 or 6 in number from 8, all of the areas surrounding UCB could be consolidated into one area). District 7 already has 2500 new residents in its existing boundaries, nearly 2000 more residents than the slowest growing, and is growing 3x faster than its neighbors in Districts 5, 7 & 8.
For Economic Vitality, Include in District the Retail Commercial Collectors/Arteries with their related Residential Neighborhood Communities Areas Citywide (Not to be divisive District Boundaries down the middle of the Street in greater flatlands) & apportion Densification In past decades, existing, cohesive greater flatlands community residential neighborhood areas absorbed increasing densification along their neighborhood’s commercial arteries/major collectors – 6th St., San Pablo, Shattuck, Adeline, Telegraph, University, Ashby and Alcatraz and to a lesser extent along College and Solano.
In many City residential neighborhoods, main arteries are within a District: Claremont, College, Solano, Marin, Hopkins, Gilman, MLK, Ashby, Alcatraz and Oxford are examples where retail corridors connected to their supporting residential neighborhoods are successful. In other Districts where the retail arteries are divided from their connected, residential communities of interest, neighborhood commercial often struggles for vitality and success (North Shattuck, University Avenue, Telegraph are examples).
Improved Community of Interest between residents & connected retail activity – More balance among District configurations could ensure that all Districts have connection between their residents and the retail businesses the residents are connected to, strengthening their shared community of interest and absorbing a proportionate share of the last decade’s densification located on these same business corridors. From the redistricting process, one or two districts should not emerge
unduly contorted in order that other districts avoid absorbing the business districts their residents are connected to and a portion of the densification they have crammed into an abutting area.
Downtown/UCB and North Shattuck were originally attached to District 4, where they have little or no commonality of interest, even though they geographically abut and naturally are connected with but avoided by Districts 5 & 6.If Downtown and North Shattuck sections, on both sides of each artery, are each within a single district, retail economic activity can be better protected. Splitting District boundaries down main flatlands thoroughfares has historical, disparate strong negative impacts on the neighborhood vitality and economic success of those business corridor arteries and injured adjacent residential neighborhoods as commute traffic domination increased.
Thus, economic activity benefits and densification impacts would be shared (at least somewhat more equally) citywide. One area of centralized density is no longer gerrymandered all into a one district while dividing longstanding Flatlands & North Berkeley resident neighborhood communities of shared interests.
FLATLANDS & North Berkeley have shared Common Geographic, Historical, Economic, Cultural, and Racial/Ethnic Diversity Interests Evidencing an Existing Shared, Common Extended Neighborhood Geographic The Flatlands and North Berkeley (greater flatlands) are geographically farmland sloping west, bisected by creeks, between the first Ocean View town and the second East Berkeley UCB & Rail Stop. It was developed as a family residential community. Greater flatlands is economically working/professional resident family homeowners and long-term tenants - a community welcoming racial and ethnic diversity and cultural cohesion. Although historically segregated, the greater neighborhood integrated itself and the current District 4 has maintained its diversity despite gentrification through 2020.
Neighborhood Health, Safety & Prosperity of Greater Flatlands:
Common interests in quiet with less noise, less litter, less flooding, less air pollution, access to nature and parks, fewer vehicles, improved traffic safety, reduction of danger from cut through and commute traffic. (There are only two diverters in central Berkeley core, Roads such as University Ave bifurcated both the Hardy Tract and the greater flatlands, only for the benefit of UCB & Downtown, destructive of our common interests). Our neighborhood serving walking park-Ohlone Park is north of University Avenue, for the east-west width of our district from Milvia to Sacramento, while our events park (including weekly Farmers’ Market) is Civic Center Park between MLK and Milvia/Center to Allston, drawing residents from the greater flatlands and citywide. Lot sized mini parks are scattered through the district.
Our community residents throughout the greater flatlands, have worked on many improvement projects over the years including University Ave. Gardeners and City’s first densification via UA Plan, Neighborhood Preservation in the 70s, and BART station undergrounding with 1200 home loss to Ohlone Park. More recently greater flatlands’ neighborhood traffic calming, residential permit parking, zoning impact mitigations, creek daylighting/stormwater and runoff protection. Improving pedestrian and bicycle safety, civic center preservation, priority undergrounding of major thoroughfare evacuation/emergency routes, disaster preparedness, arts tours/fairs and other citywide neighborhood improvement efforts continue.
Religious centers, from Buddhist Monastery to Temple to St. Joseph’s Catholic church draw residents from both Hardy Tract north across North and South Flatlands, as do elementary and middle school district boundaries extending across the breadth of the flatlands. Thousands of the City’s high school students travel through Central Berkeley daily, creating 20% of daily morning & afternoon traffic. Much of the Ohlone Park residential community were Catholic, members of St. Joseph’s across UA. In recent decades, the Catholic residential neighborhood community of interest was improperly split between two districts, when unity within one is appropriate.
Greater Flatlands residential neighborhood community have shared common interest in fighting neighborhood negative traffic impacts.
Negative impacts have resulted in
- Excessive Air Pollution,
- Dangers to Residents - Pedestrian/Bicycle Safety/local street vehicle traffic - Increased Noise, Litter, Infringement on Flatlands residential neighborhood community cohesion & quality of life
Causes:
- Traffic Volumes and Speeds of commuter traffic into/out of Berkeley (Bay Area regional commute destinations into: UCB, City Hall & Downtown as well as Berkeley resident regional commuters to South Bay, SF & greater Bay Area) –
- Lack of protection on major thoroughfares (University Ave & MLK Jr) - Lack of Traffic Calming and Protection from Cut Through Traffic--Speed and Volumes (Neighborhood has highest concentration of public and private schools (pre-school through grade 12 adding 20% to AM & PM volumes)
- Citywide truck deliveries restricted north and east, forced onto University Ave, Ashby, Sacramento, Adeline and Shattuck
Greater Flatlands Neighborhood Residential Community with Neighborhood Supportive Economic Activity on main streets – Area between original towns of Ocean View and UCB-East Berkeley rail head:
Traditional Flatlands, when converted from historical farming, became residential community of interest, composed of smaller compatible neighborhood subdivisions or community cohorts. Historical Berkeley Flatlands Community Preservation-Farmland now Residential Neighborhood.
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2. Geographical Location of Greater Flatlands Community of Interest Definition: Greater Flatlands— North Berkeley flatlands plus Historical North & South Flatlands [Original Berkeley]
Originally the greater flatlands were defined as the farms between the town of Ocean View (West Berkeley maritime fishing) and UCB & its’ railstop (UCB & Downtown), Lorin Adeline to the South, and Cedar/Westbrae/Northbrae to the North. North Berkeley flatlands run from Cedar or Virginia south to UA, from Curtis or Chestnut to MLK or Milvia (See Map B). The original North Flatlands is McGee’s Farm, together with Spaulding & Hardy Tracts. South Flatlands are Dwight to Ashby/ from Sacramento or Curtis to MLK, Milvia, Shattuck or Haste. The greater flatlands are larger than the area generally described as “Central Berkeley” (Hearst to Dwight/Sacramento to MLK) (MAP B).
We would prefer our District boundaries to include all of the greater Berkeley flatlands. Our transportation main roads are University Avenue, MLK and Ashby. On the west we are bounded by Curtis or San Pablo, depending of the expansiveness included in ‘flatlands’ Derby or Ashby to the South, Milvia to the east (plus Milvia to Haste, Bancroft to Dwight. To a far lesser degree, are we economically or culturally tied to Shattuck, Hopkins, or Telegraph.
Development to the west, south, north and east impinged on Berkeley Flatlands and Districts took pieces from the rectangular Center, but the greater flatlands continue to share the common interests of a residential flatlands community, scrunched between the Lorin, Ocean View, UCB expansions, Southside and the streetcar subdivision developments north of Cedar.
Concentrically, smaller, Central Berkeley, west of Milvia, north no farther than Virginia or Cedar, east to either Curtis, Chestnut or Sacramento and south to Derby or Ashby would be a rectangle of flatlands residential neighbors with similar challenges from traffic, working/professional economic wealth, diverse mix of homeowner and tenant residents, and a stable cultural, racial and ethnic diversity.
Central Berkeley does not have the same commonality of interests with Downtown where the residents are now predominantly students, predominantly tenants and a commuter economic base with retail influenced by the needs of UC Berkeley, Downtown, City & Berkeley High employees and students, not by residential neighbors. Central Berkeley neighbors lost their fight to keep downtown responsive to the adjacent neighborhoods.
We do not have commonality with Downtown but do have commonality with all of the flatlands neighborhoods to the north, south and west of “Central Berkeley.”
Central Berkeley/North Flatlands Core
Since City of Berkeley in 1878 from Hopkins to Blake, Bay to MLK, greater flatlands is almost all of that other than the original Ocean View, West Berkeley. The area’s 25,000+ current population far exceeds one-eighth and is therefore too large to be only 1 of 8 districts.
We narrow our focus to all our too-small nuclear North Flatlands neighborhood, then extending outward to as much of our original Berkeley greater flatlands community as we can include in one contiguous district. All of McGee’s Farm together with the Hardy and Spaulding Tracts [outline in solid line], are the historical farming center and then City Center where City Hall has been located for more than a hundred years. This area is bounded by Dwight, Sacramento, Milvia & Virginia – total population is too small for a District -- only 9200.
Our smallest most intense family is a subset --MAAGNA – McKinley Addison Allston Grant Neighborhood which extends a minimum of one block on either side of those streets. Residents’ shared experiences--to mitigate impacts of the first City densification along University Avenue to the City’s Public Safety Building development on residentially zoned property to the Trader Joe’s MLK/UA project--intensified our flatlands commonality to a deeper level.
We expand to the North Flatlands family rectangle from Virginia to Derby/Sacramento to Milvia, totaling 11,850.
Commonality to the West
Since Sacramento Street is not a commercial hub of neighborhood supporting retail needing economic cohesion, it can as easily be the boundary as can a street mid-section to either side. Commonality of interest has taught us that both block faces on a main thoroughfare need to be in one district for it to be a thriving commercial neighborhood-serving retail area. In most cases, we oppose the main street as the boundary between districts.
Since we are economically and culturally tied to University Ave, we propose extension on both sides of University Ave from Sacramento further west to Chestnut Street (Hearst to Addison) to allow continuity of the expanded commonality of interest among University Ave. merchants and residents. (+1,000 residents).
The greater flatlands include Strawberry Creek which we share in common with ‘Poet’s Corner’ and Acton neighborhood. [If District 1 does not lose northwestern population to District 5 and is able to retain Northbrae intact, then District 1 could have population overage along University Avenue, which could be added to D.4 to keep UA commonality intact]. District 4 total with UA to Chestnut added (+1000) then totals 13,000.
Further southwest in District 2, adding Addison to Dwight from Sacramento to Chestnut adds another 2150, a total of 15,150.
Commonality to the South and Southeast
After including western University Ave, west to Chestnut, an alternative is to include South Flatlands South of Dwight, to the rectangle bounded on the west by Sacramento from Addison to Derby, on the north to Hearst, on the east to Milvia (so as to include both sides of MLK) (or to Ellsworth or South Shattuck), and on the south to Derby St (to include both sides of Dwight Way), from Milvia to Bancroft.
We have commonality on the southern border of Central Berkeley with South Shattuck where residential areas also are experiencing flatlands development pressure from Downtown and UCB. The flatland blocks from Bancroft to Dwight or Derby and from Milvia to Oxford, Ellsworth or Dana, depending on whether those neighborhoods want to be split from Districts 3 or 7.
Commonality to the Southeast Commonality to the West
If less population is needed, the southeast corner would extend only to Haste, not Derby, from Ellsworth to Oxford, continuing on the east only to Milvia from Oxford to Dwight, not to Derby.
Current District 3 and Southwest District 7, share natural commonality of interest with District 4 Central Berkeley as residential neighborhoods with a mix of long term apartment tenant and homeowner housing. In total, that area of almost 4000 residents is too large to include in District 4 unless North Berkeley north of Hearst is excluded from Central but added to District 1 or 5.
Small Alternatives to Equalize the District Numbers
Adding the blocks shared with Southside from Milvia to Oxford/Bancroft to Dwight is +2000, for a Central Berkeley total of 11,850 + 2000=13,850.
For at least the last two decades, District 4 has included Milvia to Ellsworth/ Bancroft to Haste (+2250).
This would total 16,100.
Instead, from Milvia to Shattuck/ Haste to Derby, adds 750 and one more 4 block square from Shattuck to Oxford/ Haste to Derby adds 850, just short of the goal, at a 15,450 total.
Alternatively, extending north from Virginia to Cedar (between Sacramento and Milvia) is +1200 more, for a total of 14,650.
Our larger commonality of interests, Berkeley Flatlands, is over twice the size of a current District, so we are forced to be divided inappropriately in the current redistricting. District 4 can expand closer to its original boundaries either to the north Berkeley greater flatlands, to Acton west flatlands, or to South/Southeast flatlands, depending on the equalization between District 1, 2, 3 & 7 and 4.
How is your community impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council? .Our community is impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council by the following:
City government is located within District 4 and within Central Berkeley flatlands, so we are impacted by City employee and resident traffic and by its construction and expansion both in terms of people and building infrastructure. Corp yard traffic to and from City Hall cuts through our local streets. Central Berkeley has the greatest density of pre-school through-high schools across the City. Many of the City’s homeless services are located in Central Berkeley.
Traffic impacts result from development without active residential community engagement (more than a yellow notice is required).
Council actions on creeks impact Strawberry Creek intersecting the District. The Downtown Area has been expanded by City Council action across Milvia to MLK and from Center to University Avenue and south to Dwight with relaxed development standards. Downtown has been the focus of Council densification efforts. Flatlands neighborhoods worked together to influence City Council citywide action to mitigate those adverse impacts and advance flatlands interests including sidewalk and crosswalk routine maintenance plans, climate change action, Downtown Area development, University Avenue Plan (City’s first densification), Downtown Hotel & Museum, redistricting, UCB Long Range Plans, Earthquake building retrofit requirements, disaster preparedness, BSEP, Streets & Sewer, Park & School bonds, and Civic Center Historic District.
The City redeveloped and expanded the residentially-zoned Public Safety/ Courthouse/ Old City Hall block of Central Berkeley, impacting the MAAGNA neighborhood significantly. Greater flatlands have impacts from traffic too. Instead of the promised protection of the neighborhood from traffic by barriers or half barriers, traffic circles were provided in MAAGNA and spread throughout the Flatlands. Traffic volumes and speed have moderated slightly but remain far above citywide local residential street averages and far below barrier protected neighborhoods. Neighborhood pedestrian and bicycle injury crashes also remain disproportionately high with disproportionately low neighborhood safety investment.
All City Council citywide actions impact every District, particularly Central Berkeley, as it is in the middle of the City and is impacted by most actions in every other Council District.
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We all like our sunlight, our air, and our space - because we have so little of it because we are a very dense, close packed neighborhood. Sun, air and space are resources we want to protect.
We have just enough space, and we get along well and watch out for each other. This is important because we have small children, senior citizens and members of marginalized communities that have seen a lot of hatred: Muslims, Asian, and African American. We keep an eye out for our neighbors and have a history of showing up, in person to take care of mutual concerns.
We love the sound of children playing outside, and during the pandemic our outside space on Walker Street became the focus of neighborhood out door gatherings. These gatherings were about the only "socializing" any of us did for a year.
We are bounded by Shattuck to the West. We refer to the area as "Walker Street" but it comprises Derby and Ward all the way past Fulton and is also called "Le Conte". Our pandemic gatherings were almost always on Walker. (We did one on Derby but the City decided to give us grief so we moved it. ) We feel the impact of City decisions very strongly. We are tight knit, densely packed residential neighborhood next to Shattuck. The City Council are sometimes nice to us as individuals, but they don't really seem that concerned about our concerns when it comes to their actions. We are treated as irritant, spoiling their grand schemes for Shattuck.
We are as dense a community as is actually sustainable and healthy. Just enough room to ride out the pandemic, just enough room for the kids to play in the street, (a cul de sac), and just enough room to have solar panels, and grow a bit of food. Small houses, coop houses, group living houses, and apartments. Nothing over two stories. We have a range of economic classes here from Uber/taxi drivers, mechanics, carpenters, retirees, teachers, engineers, artists, and on our sidewalks - plenty of unhoused people.
Our unity is surprisingly strong.
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I am writing for Berkeley Visionary Equity Summit Alliance as a member who lives in District 1. raise up the history of the historically Black community in Districts 1, 2, and 3, District 1 was a place of inclusion, tolerance, and caring when I was growing up. Youth and elders are reconnecting over what it was like then and now. We are a voices for more affordable housing and a fair and inclusive approach to development that benefits low-income residents including a right of return for those displaced or unhousesd, and safe community policing.
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Maintain current District 1 boundaries and relationships. Our West Berkeley community was inclusive and tolerant, a good place to raise children and grow old for people of all races. We ask you to retain the current boundaries of District 1 at least as far east as Sacramento Street, the former “color line.” This includes the most concentrated and historic parts close to Albany west of San Pablo, and the later access to homes and schools we gained in the Franklin School area.
How is your community impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council? City Council is supportive when we have a strong clear voice and tends to undermine us in other times. The Black community fought for a West Berkeley Senior Center, which had the first bilingual program in the city. The City was often trying to defund and close it. They finally succeeded after two Black city council members died. Our District is often treated as a cash cow and open for development while the wellbeing and services to residents (housed and unhoused) go neglected. We will have to organize to be heard.
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There is a deep and rich history that needs to be told about the history and accomplishments of the Black and multi- racial communities of Berkeley before this tsunami of displacement and broken families from the Crack epidemic, War on Drugs, and racialized policing, to the real estate scams and speculations took displaced so many.
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I am a 30 year old resident of historic West Berkeley (split between District 1 and 2), and a current member of the Poet's Corner Advocates for the Unhoused and the Berkeley Visionary Equity Alliance. We want an inclusive community, and are working with existing institutions like Women's Day Time Drop In Center and Youth Spirit Artworks to recognize the massive displacement of the Black and Hispanic community members. We support a variety of truly affordable housing. strategies to reintegrate, including "good neighbor" shelters, tiny home villages, and safe parking lots while more affordable housing can be built.
For our purposes, retaining the current boundaries the District works well University, Sacramento, and Dwight Way works pretty well for our purposes. Strawberry Creek Park neighborhood with Berkeley Youth Alternatives, the park, the corp yard, Daytime Drop In Center and Strawberry Creek Lodge, Berkeley Youth Alternatives, belong in District 2. West Berkeley from south of University Avenue, to the Marina, Aquatic Park and east to Sacramento Street (the old de facto "color line" reflect. I am suprised to see the decline of West Berkeley and the Oceanview Neighborhood in favor of "South West Berkeley" and Northwest Berkeley." San Pablo Park was/is a distinctive neighborhood. The displacement of Black neighbors is striking west of San Pablo - the current census map looks scrubbed.
Too much to say; but I was very upset the Council wouldn't support the YSA Youth Village on San Pablo Avenue - and let a few ugly neighbors take down the mosts imaginative and care-full project ever. How do we stop fear mongering imagining these homeless and displaced West Berkeley young adults as buying and doing drugs,
There is such an amazing history to West Berkeley, especially San Pablo and west, a place of many firsts still evolving. We need more community-centered affordabe housing and cooperative communities along San Pablo and in our neighborhoods. The early death, disruption, and displacement among so many Black and Hispanic families and youth makes me very sad.
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We have interests with our neighbors concerning things like fast traffic on our streets, lighting, crime, trash pick-up, water run- off when it rains, etc. We are a neighborhood. In fact, for several years, we've had a block party in the Fall on Spruce between Cedar and Virginia, even though we were put into two different districts during the last redistricting.
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We call ourselves 'Lower Spruce'. At present I live at Spruce Street. I used to live at Arch Street. Both dwellings are on the west side of the respective streets--Spruce and Arch. Before the last redistricting, both dwellings were in District 6.
As a result of the last redistricting, Spruce and Arch Streets were split down the middle. Those who lived on the west side of the street were put into District 4, while those who lived on the East side of the street remained in District 6.
Before, when we had common problems, we could go to our District 6 representative. Now, while we may have common problems--traffic, trash pick-up, lighting for the street, we now have to go to two different District representatives, even though we have the same problem.
There were various community meetings during the last redistricting, and I remember one at the Hillside Club in which a person who lived in District 6 north of this Lower Spruce/Arch area thought that his area of Spruce Street should be in District 5. I remember that the group with which I met (I can't remember the name), submitted a request that his area of Spruce be added to District 5. If that had happened, we might have been able to remain in District 6.
District 4 does not serve our needs. It is more oriented to Berkeley businesses. I always have had good responses from District 6 and still receive their newsletter. That’s where I find out what is going on in Berkeley. I asked to be put on a District 4 newsletter, but it may be they don’t have one.
District 6 should continue south to Hearst and west to the east side of Oxford, instead of a little chunk being taken out and added to District 4. By the way, I found out about this form from the District 6 newsletter.
How is your community impacted by the City and the actions of the City Council? We're basically ignored by the City/District in our little section of District 4.
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Fix what you messed up last time and return us to District 6. We wanted to remain in District 6. You shouldn't split residents on an ordinary street into two different districts. District boundaries should be at large arteries, e.g., Hearst or Oxford.
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We own and live in a single family home as do all of the residents on both sides of our block and the adjacent streets. The neighborhood consists of many older, retired people like ourselves as well as young families with school age children
Our neighborhood is roughly bordered by Cedar to the North, Hearst to the South, Oxford to the West and Euclid to the East. Currently our neighborhood is divided into at least three separate districts. We live on the south side of Virginia St and ten years ago were removed from District 6 and assigned to District 4 which is a district with a large student constituency.
For the past ten years those of us assigned to District 4 have not felt our interests could be adequately addressed. Older homeowners and student interests do not always coincide. We would prefer to be in a district comprised of other homeowners and long term residents in our neighborhood.
Please consider boundary adjustments that would reunite us with the rest of our home owning neighbors.
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Hello,
I have resided in what is District 8 for over 34 years. I share that to say that I have experienced changes to our voting district more than once.
I would like to ask that your committee reconsider what comprises District 8. Presently, parts of the Willard Neighborhood are outside of District 8.
The Willard neighborhood runs from Ashby to Dwight and from telegraph to College. To me it makes common sense that a given neighborhood is within one voting district.
Thank you for your consideration.
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Parks. Walkways and parks are important to our community. They need to be neat, clean, well kept and most of all safe.
We want to see homeless cared for properly for and not living on the street, in tents, on park benches or in inoperable RVs or vans for days on end.
We are on Virginia St near Cedar Rose Park and the walkway that replaced the old Southern Pacific right of way. We would consider our area to extend to the North to shops on Hopkins, West to San Pablo and East to BART and on to Shattuck
Safety is an impact. We need safety for people walking to and from BART. When housing is built on the BART parking lot we have concerns that a high rise built over a tunnel could have stability problems like the Millenium Tower in SF. We have concern that when the high rise is being built that there will be congestion, disruption of the streets, dust, dirt and debris for a long time to come and we want to see how that can be mitigated. We have concern that homeless should be housed. We have concern that the parks be safe and clean for people to use comfortably for children and adults.
We are concerned that changes taking place will make our community less habitable, walkable, attractive and safe. Changes could encircle the area and make it less safe looking and thus attract people who could prowl and do harm. This includes the possibility of homeless housing on San Pablo and Cedar which while providing needed housing, could become poorly maintained and attract visitors who might prey on the residents and the neighborhood. RV parking at Cedar Rose Park,which makes it impossible to see into the park, and thus it's hard to tell whether it's safe for children to play there. And housing to be built at BART will cause disruption during building and become an attractant to prowlers looking for supplies they can steal. This behavior could then spread and cause an overall neighborhood decline.
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Long time residents, with a mix of renters and homeowners.
Close to a small shopping village.
Walkability
Friendly, neighborly with an annual block party
Until recently, this was an affordable neighborhood with neighbors that have a variety of income levels Westbrae
The Whole Foods market on Gilman St. changed the neighborhood greatly. We have noticeably more traffic on Gilman St and housing prices sky rocketed. This is no longer an affordabe neighborhood.
I live on a block where people look out for eachother. There are some older neighbors and families with kids. When you go out of town, you can ask your neighbor to keep an eye on your house or bring in your packages.
Recently though, you are very likely to see homes selling for $1.5M and lots of construction and renovations as houses double in size.
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Aged largely middle class but not more than c. 2/3 Caucasian; but across those lines very community- centered and community active, working on local causes together and keeping in touch with others, We’ve had.a number of new residents arriving from the suburbs just to live in such an active and diverse neighborhood. New residents from Kansas to Thailand to India are swiftly welcome here We have been calling ourselves Walkable Westbrae, which adequately describes our growing attachment to all the food, goods and services that are close enough for us to leave our cars parked and walk for combined shopping and walking. In that sense we’re a materialist, future-oriented and add to our peaceful diversity. You could stretch the boundaries from say Monterey Market to Whole Foods — tolerating non-evil corporations but totally committed to local commercial efforts — and from the Albany line a few blocks.
In part by bureaucratic slowness In approving small obvious proposals for local approval. One simple stop sign we knew would eliminate an endless series of local accidents took three years even when there was local support. Other than that we are probably less-afflicted than other neighbors by the lower degree of routine crime and mayhem — we’ll probably.not be a major pest to the mayor.
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More industrial pollutants here than any other Berkeley district.
Lower income than rest of Berkeley/ greater need for social services.
Greatest number of tent/rv cities in Berkeley.
Northwest Berkeley; we tend to identify with Northwest Berkeley BART station.
So far I don't see any positive action from the Council regarding our problems. I have visible, toxic dust entering my home every single day. The number of people living on the street, in tents, cars and rv’s makes my home neighborhood a depressing place to live.
Let's start with reining in toxic pollution and helping house less persons get into motels or shelters.
Please help us have a better quality of life. Please hear me. Please.
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We are a neighborhood, linked by proximity, friendship, and our CERT group. Most of the neighbors have lived here for more than 25 years; some much longer. People know each other, look out for one another, share keys, newspapers, tools, lemons, and kid and elder equipment. The neighborhood kids go to Berkeley public schools; we're 6 blocks from Ruth Acty and 2 blocks from King.
Generally, the 1500 block of McGee and the 1700 block of Vine. Vine/McGee Neighbors.
Our taxes contribute to the City's general fund, special parcel taxes and assessments for various needs, and public safety. To the extent that the City and City Council allocate resources to maintain infrastructure and public safety, we are affected.
We love our neighborhood. It is one of the most walkable neighborhoods in town, less than a half mile from Shattuck, the North Branch of the Public Library, the Hopkins commercial corridor, and BART.
The 1500 block of McGee badly needs repaving. The pavement has deteriorated to the point that the storm drains collect pebbles, dirt and bits of asphalt. The street sweeper generates huge clouds of dust; it is pointless to sweep.
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neighborliness, taking care of our homes, crime prevention, safety, small neighborhood stores, businesses and restaurants.
Westbrae, "Gilman District", East of San Pablo, near Gilman Street The city is discussing removing parking along Hopkins and near BART. I am retired on fixed income and have mobility limitations.(So I can't walk far and cannot afford taxis) I tried once to take a bus to the University and no bus came on schedule. If I cannot drive places and park, I will be unable to go anywhere. Well, I guess I can drive to Richmond or El Cerrito instead of to my closer Berkeley stores.
We need NEW 21rst century transport for the "last mile" - self driving minibuses? moving sidewalks?
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Walking to local restaurants, post office, parks, library, shops. This is extremely important, that's why we chose this area.
North of University and east of San Pablo. People refer to this area as Poets Corner but it is not. I've seen it refered to as Curtis Tract on official city plans
My community is being drastically impacted by the city and the actions of the city council. Massive building projects are looming in our back yards, literally! Parking is a nightmare and the lack of parking is not going to reduce the number of cars.
Plople are buying electric, smaller cars. Homeless folks wander up and down the street. Human feces is common. The city council is rolling over on us. I honestly think the city would prefer older residents leave the area.
As the previous city council member said this area is a "step child". We are on the border of districts 1 and 2 and no one wants to commit to us. Curtis Street is the only street you can travel on from Dwight to Kensington and we get massive amount of traffic avoiding San Pablo. Other than Sacrametno every other street bewteen Shattuck and San Pablo is restricted in some way leaving us extremly vunerable to impatient, inconsiderate drivers. I think this district should span University Ave. Using main arteries as dividing lines leaves people unrepresented.
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Living within walking distance of North Berkeley BART. This is important because drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians have different interests. Also, our community has many members in "regular" jobs (teaching, retail, government, transportation) versus some of Berkeley where residents are uniformly in higher income jobs.
West of Sacramento, North of University, South of Gilman West Berkeley
Pedestrian safety is vital in our neighborhood, because many people see it as a place to speed through on the way to the hills. We also care more about inclusive housing policies. Also, there are issues around unhoused people that impact us more directly than they impact people in more uniformly wealthy neighborhoods.
We are the place where the artists and educators in Berkeley live.
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A wide range of people living here- students, elderly, families, homeowners, renters, unhoused, Black, Native American, Asian, Latino and all other groups that are not "census defined".
Access to transit, cafe's, restaurants, grocery stores, services. Walkable and bike-able neighborhood.
On street parking for residents.
Rose or Hopkins street, Shattuck Ave, University Avenue, the Marina. I don't know the name of my specific neighborhood. I live at 2 blocks from the BART Station.
Decisions about the BART station development are key in the coming year. Those decisions should be majorly influenced by those that will live next door to it, and not those who drive to it. Enlarging District 5 will disadvantage those of us who live next door.
Some people are writing in form letters to enlarge District 5. Please ignore form letters. Create districts that make geographic sense. On the north, Rose or Hopkins is the obvious boundary.
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The parks and paths: Strawberry Creek Park + the West Street path, Ohlone Park and paths, Cedar Rose Park, plus Totland. That's where I see my neighbors (particularly during COVID), where I see kids playing, where I see people walking their dogs.
I live in the neighborhood around the North Berkeley BART station. To me, the most central elements are North Berkeley BART, the path along West Street, Strawberry Creek Park, and Cedar Rose Park. My conception of the neighborhood extends south to Dwight (+ Homemade Cafe!) and north to Hopkins. On the west it goes at least to San Pablo Avenue, or maybe all the way to the railroad tracks (to include Rosa Parks + the Adult School and Cafe Leila and Viks -- but it doesn't include the Fourth Street shopping district). On the east it goes at least to California (Monterey Market + the softball field next to the BART station), or maybe as far as MLK Jr Way (for Totland, the rest of Ohlone Park, and King Middle School).
City decisions about development at North Berkeley BART, along major corridors (University, Sacramento, San Pablo, maybe MLK + the 6th St corridor).
The North Berkeley BART station is part of the Berkeley flats.
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Living so close to the North Berkeley BART station, I see that as a focal point for the community, and something that priorities and interests are organized around. Those who walk or bike to that BART station, and are invested and impacted by it as a use, definitely feel like one economic community. One of the biggest factors for lifestyle in Berkeley is whether you live in a walkable/bikable neighborhood in the flats, or in a driving neighborhood in the hills. Those are two very distinct lifestyles and interests, and residents of each lifestyle should be able to elect councilmembers that advocate for those interests and needs.
To me, my neighborhood stretches from Gilman/Hopkins in the north (Monterrey Market, Gioia Pizza, and the swimming pool at King Middle being key parts of my community), San Pablo to the west (Casa Latina, Cafe Leila, and Acme being core parts of what I access), MLK to the east (Ohlone Park is important to me), and Allston to the south (I take Allston to get to Aquatic Park and Cesar Chavez park). I think of the BART station as a central organizing feature of my neighborhood, as well as the Ohlone Greenway.
Urban Adamah and the Gilman Corridor is also an important part of my community, and something I access often.
Given the planning around the BART housing project, the city's planning on that project is hugely impactful to my neighborhood. Bike and pedestrian access is also impactful, given the prominence of the Ohlone Greenway, as well as the relative walkability (or not) of various parts of my community (very easy to get to Gilman/Hopkins, less easy/pedestrian friendly to get to San Pablo).
I truly believe how you get around is a distinct marker in distinguishing one community from another. A primarily car-oriented community and neighborhood has vastly different needs and priorities than a primarily walking and biking-oriented neighborhood. My neighbors and I walk and bike regularly, and choose the flats with many walkable and bikable amenities on purpose. That is a key element of something that makes us a neighborhood. My nextdoor neighbors walk their daughters to school every day. My roommates and I bike to the grocery store.
My neighbors and I use BART, the Ohlone Greenway, and the Bike Blvds on California, Milvia, and 9th to get where we need to go, and we chose this place to live specifically so we could do that. Mobility is a core issue when determining a community, and that should be taken into account when drawing district maps.
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The North Berkeley Bart station is the single biggest defining feature of my neighborhood, and the landmark used to convey the neighborhood within a 15-20 minutes walk of the station.
The area is described as the "neighborhood around the North Berkeley Bart station", or just "North Berkeley Bart". Because the station is named "North Berkeley", many people around here use that name to refer to the area around the station rather than the wider part of Berkeley towards Hopkins and Gilman. The use of this station version of the name usually refers to the area between San Pablo Ave, Martin Luther King, Hopkins and University.
Because the Ohlone Greenway (and Ohlone Park) transport people by foot and bike to the Bart station, many Bart commuters who use the station consider themselves affiliated with "North Berkeley" by virtue of the station they use.
The City's investment and upkeep of the bike, transit and pedestrian infrastructure leading in all directions from the North Berkeley Station affects our community's daily commutes to the station. The quality of that infrastructure is experienced twice daily by the thousands of people who move on foot to the station.
It's very important to our neighborhood's identity that the area around the Bart station not be split into different districts. The walkshed/bikeshed around the station has build that community identity. Those who walk and bike to the station see the same people people (our neighbors who walk and bike) daily, exchange news and create community. Because of the Ohlone Greenway in particular, which acts as a feeder from the blocks to the north, there is a strong culture of people who walk or bike to transit. Many people I know moved to this neighborhood in order to drive less. This an "eco neighborhood" of people making transportation choices in line with their sustainability objectives.
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One extremely important common interest in my community is that we have common means of transportation, most notably the ability to walk to North Berkeley BART and bike to various places. I believe that when developing the council districts, North Berkeley BART and ones proximity to it should be considered a factor.
Another common interest in my community is that we live near Cedar Market and Monterey Market/Magninis etc. Another example of community is the night that my community puts out lights for our annual Luminaria night (Christmas eve) - people from all over the city come to walk the streets in this community that are bounded by MLK, University, Rose and Sacramento (or North Berkeley BART) to enjoy the luminaria's and the community that we have built over the years.
I consider my community to be North Berkeley BART East. The boundaries are Berkeley BART to Rose Street to MLK to University.
It is very important that this community and its interests/concerns be recognized and that the city makes sure that this community stays together. Please do not separate the neighborhoods between University, MLK, Sacramento and Rose.
Again, because of the ability to walk to North Berkeley BART and because of current events concerning North Berkeley BART I firmly believe that when developing the council districts, BART and ones proximity to it should be considered a factor.
My community and its concerns/interests are unique from that of the Berkeley Hills/Thousand Oaks neighborhoods. It is important to NOT lump us in with the Berkeley Hills or Thousands Oaks neighborhoods.
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Many people chose to live in this neighborhood because of the walkable streets and proximity to buses and the North Berkeley BART station (NBB). We enjoy walking or biking to places and patronizing local businesses. Our neighborhood has a grid, not wavy switchback style streets seen in the Berkeley Hills.
The attached map shows the area around North Berkeley BART where one can walk to the station from their home in less than 10 minutes. Residents living in that area are most affected by regional usage of BART and zoning changes there. Because of the grid, the walkable area is more of a diamond shape than a square.
The zoning of the North Berkeley BART station is a major area that affects us, as well as general plans of the Bike, Paving, and Climate Action variety. The effort to update the Housing Element will affect us as the North Berkeley BART area is a high opportunity area that is largely zoned for single family homes.
Judging by the size of the North Berkeley BART station parking lot, there was an idea sometime in the past to make this neighborhood more suburban, but when you spend a good amount of time here you see people using the streets with anything but cars. There’s also an unusually high amount of working and retired architects, planners, and urbanists concentrated here now. We chose this place because of its urban qualities, not the suburban ones.
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Our community is WALKABLE! We walk to run errands, go to school and work, visit each other and exercise our dogs and ourselves. Most importantly, we can walk to the North Berkeley BART station, which is why we chose to purchase our home 28 years ago.
Sacramento and the North Berkeley BART station to the east, Ohlone Greenway to the south, MLK to the east and Rose to the north.
Pavement quality, street-sweeping, disaster preparedness and development of the North Berkeley BART station.
This is a world-class neighborhood! To be able to learn, shop and exercise in a lovely, tree-filled, architecturally interesting area that is such close walking distance to a transit system that can whisk us to work, across the Bay and to two international airports is a privilege.
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1704 Vine Street
The common interests of my community are the many different interests that are shared by the wonderfully different people who live nearby.
For many it's books. For others it's gardening. We spend a lot of time in political discussions. We spend even more time discussing most anything. But the underlying glue that holds us together and inspires us is the joy of engaging with our neighbors during our walks in our community. As a result, "an easy walking distance" limits the size of our community. And having somewhere there's a reason to walk to in our community gives walking a purpose. Our two most popular walking destinations are the North Berkeley BART station and the neighborhood commercial centere at the Hopkins/California/Monterey intersection.
The "community" in which I reside encompasses more than the few adjacent blocks that surround the block on which I live. But my community is smaller than the many neighborhoods often referred to as "North Berkeley." I've heard it called "Cow Hollow," perhaps because the area was occupied by dairy farms before it was subdivided over a century ago. Our community is bordered on the north by its upscale neighbor, Northbrae, on the east by the wide commercial corridor of Shattuck Avenue, on the east by the Ohlone Greenway with a little bump to University Avenue along Sacramento Street and on the west by San Pablo Avenue. Everywhere within our community is within walking distance of it hub, the North Berkeley BART station.
Through its political, planning and legal actions the institution known as the "City of Berkeley" can inspire and facilitate the transformation of North Berkeley BART's suburban style commuter rail station and surrounding sea of surface parking lots into an attractive and vibrant mixed-housing and community-serving neighborhood center.
When my wife and I decided to buy our particular little starter house on Vine Street 44 years ago, we did so in large part because we were charmed by the character and the then affordability of the "Baja Vine Street" neighborhood and because both of us worked in San Francisco. The easy commute on BART accommodated both our professional careers and our love affair with Berkeley. Both of us are now retired. Allowing many more people to share the opportunity we had is both just and will make Online web form available at cityofberkeley.info/redistricting/ our community even better than it is now.