2021 KPOA Annual Meeting

Kensington Property Owners Association

Below are links to the recording of the 2021 KPOA Annual Meeting. The recordings are broken up into sections and will open in a new window in YouTube. Click the links under the descriptions to view the recordings for that section. Sheryl Drinkwater, Oakland Fire Safe Council member and architect talks about Effective Home-Hardening Practices…

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Hardening Your Home for Wildfire Season

Kensington Property Owners Association

Below is the list of resources that Sheryl Drinkwater referenced in her Hardening Your Home talk at KPOA’s 2021 Annual Meeting. Watch the video of the presentation: Part 1, Part 2, Q&A Resource List in Presentation: Assoc. of Fire Chiefs (IBHS list)Univ. of CA Cooperative ExtensionUS Forest ServiceSustainable Defensible SpaceTwo MoreReady For WildfireUSDA Wildfire Risk…

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Utility Under-grounding

Kensington Property Owners Association

Taken from The April 2016 Outlook Kensington Learns about Undergrounding Utilities On April 20, the Kensington Property Owners Association (KPOA) and the Kensington Improvement Club (KIC) sponsored an educational forum on undergrounding utility wires, featuring Rocco Colicchia of Harris and Associates, Mary Halle from the Contra Costa County Public Works Department, and Supervisor John Gioia.…

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Kensington Paths

Kensington Property Owners Association

The original early 1900s developers of Kensington created a network of public access paths as part of their subdivision plans.  These paths were intended to provide pedestrians more direct access to the Arlington Avenue streetcars.  Along with the streets, the developers offered to dedicate the paths to the county for public use. The county never accepted the dedication…

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BART Parking

Kensington Property Owners Association

BART is proposing to build high density housing on its property at the El Cerrito Plaza Station. BART’s proposed plan calls for replacing the existing parking lots at the station with multi-storied housing containing a combination of affordable and market priced units as part of the Agency’s Transit-Oriented Development Program (TOD) for mixed-use, higher density…

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Fire Insurance in the hills

Kensington Property Owners Association

After several years of wildfires, California homeowners in areas along the urban/wildland interface have seen increases in rates and cancellations of policies. In 2019, a one year moratorium on cancellations was enacted by the State Insurance Commissioner. However we are now past the timeframe and have concerns about how insurers will behave in our area.…

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Land Use and Zoning in Kensington

Kensington Property Owners Association

Our community is almost completely zoned for single family homes. As the job hubs particularly San Francisco and Silicon Valley continue to grow, there is significant pressure on East Bay communities to increase density and build more housing. Contra Costa County is currently updating its General Plan which guides development. The County is currently proposing…

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KPOA Position on Wildfire and Emergency Preparedness

Kensington Property Owners Association

KPOA is concerned about the wildfire risk that is presented by the fuel load in Tilden Park. KPOA has urged the East Bay Regional Park District to take mitigation measures to reduce the fuel load particularly at the Wildland/Urban Interface where Kensington borders Tilden Park. KPOA also believes it is important to have a well-defined…

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