Conservancy: Annual Report 2022
Your Chavez Park Conservancy played a meaningful role in the park this year. We initiated and led a successful public
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Open Letter to Audubon’s Glenn Phillips
Dear Mr. Phillips: You became Executive Director of the Golden Gate Audubon Society in March last year, after 30 years
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Save the Owls!
The Burrowing Owls in the park, when they come, deserve the best protection we can offer. The current fence around
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Numbers, Numbers
Shortly after the City announced that BMASP (the park wrecking scheme) was NOT going to include “development” at Cesar Chavez
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Victory! BMASP Drops Park Dev Plan
Today’s update of the Berkeley Marina Area Specific Plan (BMASP) website says in bold letters: “Please note that no development is
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Millions and Meetings
The local online daily, Berkeleyside, had a story yesterday titled “City secures $15M state earmark to improve Berkeley Marina.” This
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Weekly Roundup
The petition to City Council and City Manager has topped our initial goal of 1,000 signatures. As I write this
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Good News and Work to Be Done
The movement to save Chavez Park from the BMASP park-wrecking scheme has enjoyed success in reaching some members of the
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Kite Fest Not Dead Yet?
UPDATE 2:43 pm. The Kite Fest may not be dead yet. In an email from Mayor Jesse Arreguin this morning,
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Steady Progress
At the Chavez Park Conservancy kiosk in the park on Sunday July 24, we collected 131 ink signatures on the
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Petition to Save Chavez Park
To Berkeley City Council and Berkeley City Manager: I am a Chavez Park visitor. A consultant that you hired has
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More than Halfway There
The campaign for a thousand signatures on the Petition to Save Our Park is more than halfway there after just
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New Book: Love Letters to the Park
More than 125 park visitors recently put fingers to keyboards and shared their love for Chavez Park and their opposition
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Unanimous NO on BMASP
The Parks, Recreation and Waterfront Commission met on Zoom last night with the largest attendance in memory unanimously telling Commissioners
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Letters Pour In
Reminder: Parks Commission meeting tonight (Wednesday) 7 pm, Zoom link here. Speak out! Raise your hand and wait for your
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And More Letters
Letter from Susan Tomasello I am a SF Bay Area native Californian. My husband and I have lived in the
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Speak Up Time
To stop the BMASP scheme that would wreck our park, it’s time to speak up. This coming Wednesday at 7
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Letters Continued
Letter from Tom Reilly Dear Mas. Kesarwani and Mayor Arreguín and Berkeley City Council Members, I’m writing in response to
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Even More Letters
Reminders: Saturday July 9 (tomorrow) 9 am Native Plant Watering and Cultivating. Meet at parking circle west end of Spinnaker
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Letter to Parks Commission, with Document
Roger Miller is the Secretary of the Parks, Recreation and Waterfront Commission. The following email was sent on July 7
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Park Engagement Times and Letters
This coming weekend there are two kinds of opportunities to engage with the park. On Saturday morning from 9 to
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Not One Person
Not a single person thought that the proposed commercial developments for Chavez Park were a good idea. That was a
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Letter: End this Ill-Conceived Idea!
Dear Mayor Arreguín and Berkeley City Council Members,I’m writing in response to the Berkeley Marina Area Specific Plan (BMASP) proposal
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BMASP: A Betrayal of Nature
Letter to City Council and related parties from Susan Black, June 28 2022: Today on my usual morning walk around
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