Hargreaves Jones: Million-dollar Picture Pirates
Berkeley’s city management paid the Hargreaves Jones (HJ) consulting firm a $1M+ fee for advice on dealing with the waterfront.
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Issues
Third Draft of Waterfront Specific Plan
Comments on Berkeley Waterfront Specific Plan, Third Draft The City of Berkeley has spent $1.1 million to hire a set
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Park Week 11/24/23
Rain Fruit What seems clear is that the rains we had this past week bore fruit with these mushrooms growing
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Park Week 9/22/2023
Equinox Celebration Tonight The world is stuffed thick with inequities of every kind. All the more reason to celebrate a
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Park Week 9/15/23
Birds of the Week The big bird news this week in the park was the return of the White-crowned Sparrows.
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Park Week 7/14/23
Heron’s Breakfast Hidden in the shadows on the north side of the Open Circle Viewpoint, this big heron reached out
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Park Week 7/7/23
Snowy With a Bad Leg This Snowy Egret used its wings more than it normally would because its right leg
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Park Week 5/26/23
Weed and Water the Plant Babies Sunday Morning The baby native plants that Conservancy volunteers put in the ground last
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Park Week 5/19/23
Birds: Female Cameo At least one female showed up in the Red-winged Blackbird breeding area on Sunday May 14. She
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Park Week 5/5/23
Painting Birds Alive A story in the Washington Post last week features Rex Brasher, “the greatest bird artist you’ve never
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Park Week 4/28/23
Earth Day at Bay Fair After three years in limbo for Covid-19, the Bay Fair bounced back to life at
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Park Week 4/21/23
Hard Workers More than 20 Cal students showed up for the Chavez Park Conservancy Stewardship Day on Saturday April 15,
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Park Week 3/31/23
Favorite Birds of the Week I’ll go out in the rain when there’s a Burrowing Owl in residence, but otherwise
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Park Events
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) Trifecta of Bad Manners This past Friday, the day before yesterday, I was walking up toward
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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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More Native Trees
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) The Native Pollinator Habitat project moved into its final tree planting phase today, with members of
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Memory Unearthed
(Burrowing Owl Update Below) More than 50 people have memorial plaques in the park. All but two are mounted to
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Now Reservable
A welcome innovation in the park is Reservable Picnic Areas. Two picnic spots, a small one and the largest, can
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One Cheer, Three Boos
Good news: the large graffiti on the east side of the Flare Station fence, which appeared almost immediately after the
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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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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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1800 and Growing
The chill seaside gale almost blew the Conservancy kiosk away Sunday afternoon, so we decided to shut it down after
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More Recent Letters
Letters and comments about the proposed commercialization of Chavez Park continue to come in. Here is a selection, some penned
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