Sunday, June 23, 2013

Car Story

Thieves and Lake Temescal

Officer Jason Trode of the Neighborhood Crime Prevention Unit advises Rockridge residents about how not to entice a break-in of your cars.

Since tenants on Caldecott Lane live directly across from the Lake Temescal Park, this is sound advice for us, too.  Click on the link above to read more about what to do to protect your car and your belongings.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The Great Wall Comes Down

Photos from this morning.  Behind the wall is a "hill" and, and both it and the concrete sound wall perched on top, seems amazingly good at reducing traffic noise and is much prettier to look at.



Monday, June 10, 2013

Cleaning house takes a concerted effort but when your tasks are completed, you can look back and see tangible results.

Cleaning storm drains and creeks clogged with landscape cuttings also takes a concerted effort but, oh, how nice it is to begin to see our City's land being restored to its natural beauty.

14 Yard Bags Filled with Landscape Cuttings

Looking Good!

Friday, June 7, 2013

Keeping On, Keeping on Keeping Caldecott Lane Clean

ON EARTH DAY

14 volunteers worked all day to clean-up discarded sofas, construction debris, scaffolding, chain link fence and landscape cuttings clogging public storm drains. . .

It is disheartening to see the following behind 142 Caldecott Lane but we will pledge to keep our city's land free of blight.

We invite you, all tenants and residents living on Caldecott Lane to keep our land beautiful and blight free.



Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Leno's Bill on Security Deposit Withholding Has Yet to Pass

"California's Democratic Legislative Majority Betrays Tenants "

Click here to read article on BeyondChron about the defeat of Leno's bill to protect tenant's security deposits.

But please send your "Thanks" to Senator Loni Hancock (Democrat - Oakland), who supported the bill.

Sounding in Noise - Walls Come Down

BLEARY EYED AND SLEEP DEPRIVED

From all the bright lights, worker's speaking, hammering and cranes employed in removing the "temporary" sound wall. . .

I found the article in SF Gate interesting in that it discusses the plans for a new, permanent sound wall...

Click here to see the article published in May 2010.

And, did you notice the trees that were planted on the side of the sound wall nearest Caldecott Lane.  They've been plucked and replanted nearest Highway 24.

Won't it be nice when the 4th Bore is open?