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2022 KPOA Annual Meeting
The Kensington Property Owners Association will hold its annual membership meeting by Zoom on Saturday May 21, 2022 at 10am. Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84087072242 Speakers include: Richard Berkson, economic consultant to special districts to improve financial and economic plans, LAFCO (Local Agency Formation Commission) Executive Officer Lou Ann Texeira on special district reorganization proposals; wildfire evacuation…
Read MoreStation Access and parking Survey – El Cerrito Plaza BART station
BART is conducting a survey to determine how people were accessing the El Cerrito station (pre-pandemic) and gathering opinions on options for accessing the station as they move toward developing housing on the parking lots. Please complete the survey if you ever use BART, especially if loss of parking will impact your ability to access…
Read More2021 KPOA Annual Meeting
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…
Read MoreHardening Your Home for Wildfire Season
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…
Read MoreHow one Bay Area community is taking wildfire watch into its own hands
Learn about how Kensington residents are working together to keep the community safe from Wildfire. Read the article in the SF Chronicle here. To find out how you can get involved visit the Wildcat Watch blog.
Read MoreUtility Under-grounding
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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Read MoreKensington Paths
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…
Read MoreBART Parking
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…
Read MoreFire Insurance in the hills
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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