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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Bathrooms
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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This is Site Service?
Kudos to United Site Services for promptly replacing the porta-potty in the dog park, toppled by Sunday’s atmospheric river storm.
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Toilet Tease
The City of Berkeley has $53 million left of the $100 million T1 parks bond that voters approved in 2018.
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Public Restroom Study Report
If you’re in Cesar Chavez Park and need to go, you’re in trouble. The only facilities that the Parks, Recreation
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For Better Bathrooms
The photo shows a park restroom with flush toilet, urinal, and hand washing sink that cost the National Park Service
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Conservancy at Work
The Chavez Park Conservancy does more than highlight the many natural beauties of the park. Part of the Conservancy’s mission
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Conservancy Annual Report 2019
The Chavez Park Conservancy has released its Annual Report 2019. A PDF copy is attached. The report covers activities by
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Restroom Update
As noted here previously, the City has contracted with Hyphae Designs to do a citywide restroom study. The study is
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Better Restrooms Coming?
The consultants working on a contract with the City to look at the public restroom situation citywide will propose replacement
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Public Eye
Most Chavez Park Conservancy work is done in the everyday world, far from the spotlights. In the past couple of
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How Much Longer?
On the western edge of the Off-Leash Dog Area sits this porta-potty, one of the three sets of these temporary
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Why We Still Have Porta-Potties in the Park
Why do we still have porta-potties in the park after more than 25 years? We still have porta-potties in the
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Good Enough for Berkeley
After six days unusable with a broken door (flashback), the ADA porta-potty in the park opposite the hotel finally got
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Disgusting
Once again the ADA porta-potty opposite the hotel is unusable because of a broken door. This door has the cheapest,
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Good Job, Park Maintenance
Park Maintenance deserves a tip of the hat for prompt action in painting over the graffiti on the trash boxes
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How Many Times?
How many times must a park porta-potty break down before Parks management makes the vendor replace it? This ADA unit
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An Open Letter to Ann-Marie Hogan, City Auditor
Dear Ms. Hogan, I have been deeply impressed over the years by your concern for prudent and transparent management of
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Porta-Potties Pollute their Surroundings
The quickest way to clean the seat, walls, and floors of porta-potties is with a high-pressure hose. But porta-potties have
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Ohlone Park Neighbors Talk Restrooms
Permanent restrooms for Ohlone Park was the topic of a community meeting Monday evening, May 22, in classrooms A and
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Emeryville Gets Portland Loo
The City of Emeryville has stepped forward where Berkeley fears to tread: it’s installed a public restroom. Located on Park
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Op-ed in Berkeleyside 5/9/17
First published in Berkeleyside May 9 2017 Everybody Wants Better Park Bathrooms – Except the Parks Director By Martin Nicolaus
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City Attorneys Slap Down Parks Boss’ Legal Flim-Flam
The Parks Department last week backed off from Parks boss Scott Ferris’ April 8 legal-sounding claim that T1 bond money
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