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ZAB is debating the validity and use of Kitchen Democracy’s online public comments in their decision making process. The issue was raised in reponse to the use permit recently granted to the owners of Wright’s Garage. Read more in the 03.13.07 Daily Planet.
Related: 03.13.07 Daily Planet article on ZAB approval of the Wright’s Garage. Map.
Though not always Berkeley specific, Local Ecologist provides relevant thoughts and commentary on neighborhoods and planning issues in general. It is run by a student in the Landscape Architecture Department at UC Berkeley. Have a look.
They just got it up and running in mid October. It has an amazing compilation of media (TV, radio, print), educational, governmental links. And then a prolific amount of daily posting of course. Check it out: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/blogs/index.php
The Berkeley Waterfront has some interesting info and links relating to West Berkeley and its shoreline.
A $3000 dollar donation from Councilmember Wozniak draws attention to the newly established website www.kitchendemocracy.org. Read about it in the Planet. Click here and here for past posts.
With the intent to walk every street in Berkeley, Jen in 510 uses her excursions to better understand the community she lives in. Her new blog documents her walks with commentary and photos. Read a more indepth description here, or better yet vist the site www.walkingberkeley.wordpress.com.
*Some books related to this topic: Rebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust: A History of Walking and West Berkeley resident Barbara Gate’s book Already Home.
Click here to read another article on this new Berkeley blog in today’s Daily Planet.
It’s called www.kitchendemocracy.org. Started this past March by Berkeley residents Simona Carini and Robert Vogel, it intends to expand and increase the lines of communication between Berkeley citizens and the city government. Click here to read more about this blog in the Berkeley Voice.
Kid oakland is a blog about politics and culture, written by a regular contributor to Daily Kos.
Don’t know when they started doing this, but the City of Berkeley’s Newscan webpage now cites individually run local blogs as news sources right alongside the Berkeley Daily Planet, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, etc. The most recent example of this can be seen in the Oct. 5 2005 Newscan archive section, items #13–#15 below.
This one eminates from south West Berkeley, in the Potter Creek area. Ron Penndorf’s almost daily postings give good insights to the goings-on of his neighborhood, and greater Berkeley. Posts relate to Berkeley politics, food, crime, development, neighbors, neighbor’s opinions, neighborhood business, environmental issues, and strong smells (imagine that!).
http://ronpenndorf.com/scrmbldeggs.html
*If you know of any other blogs pertaining to the the area, please let us know about them and we will add them to the Blogroll.
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