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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Bathrooms
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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Parks Admits: No Basis for Dollar Figures
The Berkeley Parks Department now admits that it has no hard basis for the astronomical cost estimates for park bathrooms
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Bathrooms Are Priority for T1 Bond: City Manager
Berkeley’s City Manager Dee Williams-Ridley is on record that addition and replacement of park restrooms is included in the intended
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Porta-Potties Can’t be Improved On: Parks Boss
Parks boss Scott Ferris told an audience of about 25 members of the public at the South Branch Library Saturday
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Park $$ Event Tomorrow
The third of three “public hearings” on how to spend the $100 million infrastructure bond is being held tomorrow, Saturday
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Better Bathrooms at City Council (Again)
On Tuesday, April 4, I attended the Berkeley City Council special work session, which had as agenda item 2 a
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Better Bathrooms on Nextdoor.com
The campaign for better bathrooms in the parks moved to the neighborhood social network Nextdoor.com this week and met with
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Can New Park Restrooms Be Built on Old Landfill?
Executive Summary: Building a traditional sanitary bathroom that requires a long and deep sewer connection on top of a landfill
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Now’s the Time for Better Bathrooms
What: Final Meeting on T1 Bond Money When: Saturday April 8 2017, 10 am to noon Where: South Berkeley Library, 1901
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The Flyer that the Parks Department Wouldn’t Allow on the Table
(Flyer prepared for the so-called Public Hearing on spending T1 bond money, Saturday March 18, 2017, Frances Albrier Community Center,
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There Will Be Money for Better Restrooms
Berkeley voters passed Measure T1 by a whopping 86.46 per cent in yesterday’s election. It only needed two thirds to
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New Sign, Old Problems
After more than two years of neglect, the broken main park entrance sign at the parking circle at the end
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The High Price of Porta-Potties
Better Bathrooms Would Save Taxpayer Money Some people think that porta-potties are cheap and save taxpayer money. True, the construction is
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Lipstick on a Pig
Responding to more than a year of citizen complaints about the stinky porta-potties in Cesar Chavez Park, the Marina administration
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New National Park Service Flush-Vault Restroom in Pacifica
Yesterday I visited the new flush-vault restroom the National Park Service had installed at its Mori Point park in Pacifica.
Read MoreUtility-free Restrooms in Cesar Chavez Park: a Briefing
Berkeleyside today published an op-ed I wrote about the park restroom issue: Op-ed: Utility-free Restrooms in Cesar Chavez Park —
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World Toilet Day Nov. 19
World Toilet Day — no joke — is Nov. 19, according to PHLUSH.org, the website of Public Restroom Advocates in
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What kind of fool?
What kind of fool would drive 70 miles to see a park restroom? On Oct. 22, despite feeling low with the flu,
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Reconsider the $600K Windsurfer Bathroom
Statement to the Parks and Waterfront Commission meeting yesterday (June 10 2015): The list of parks projects submitted by Parks Director
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$600,000 Would Buy Ten Better Bathrooms
The Parks and Waterfront Department is planning to spend $600,000 for a new bathroom in the Marina, to serve the small
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A better bathroom: Green and Flush
When I made the case for better bathrooms at a Berkeley City Council work session a couple of months ago, council
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