Next PANIL meeting:
Wednesday, August 11
7:30 pm
Piedmont Gardens
110 41st Street
11th Floor
Sky Room
• 7:30 Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council
Moderated by Sandra Saunders-West, Neighborhood Services Coordinator Beat 9x

General Meeting — 8:00 pm

The Piedmont Avenue Neighborhood Improvement League (PANIL)  is an association of residents in Oakland founded in 1974, with six Steering Committee members and nine standing committees. [See contacts page.]

PANIL  keeps residents informed about life in this neighborhood as well as matters related to City government and City services.

PANIL  is supported by member dues (minimum $15/year), by advertising in  PANIL Notes, and by fund raising events held throughout the year.

• Click here for more information on PANIL.

 


Piedmont Avenue at night

Budget Proposal from Council President Jane Brunner, Vice Mayor Jean Quan, and Councilmembers Ignacio De La Fuentes and Pat Kernighan. [click here to read]

For other budget information from the Mayor and City Administrator's office go to: www2.oaklandnet.com and scroll down to Budget News.

The next City Council budget meeting will be held this Thursday, June 24, 5:30 p.m. at City Hall.

National Night Out

Tuesday, 8/3/10.
To register your block party go to www2.oaklandnet.com/nno
or call Brenda Ivey at 238-3091 by 7/26/10.
PANIL is taking pictures for the September issue of PANIL Notes.
If you wish your group included, email us with time and place information for your event.

Oakland Public Library Presentation --

Piedmont Avenue Branch Library Options

[click here] to view

Proposed Rezoning:
For that latest information about the Piedmont Avenue area go to: oaklandnet.com
The February special edition of PANIL Notes was devoted to Oakland's rezoning. Click here to download

Kaiser Residential Permit Parking (RPP)
If you live between 41st Street and 580, roughly east of Ruby and west of Fairmount or Kempton, you are slated to be in an expanded Residential Parking Permit (RPP) area with permits paid for by Kaiser (2 permits per household). This is one of the mitigations required by the city as a result of the Environmental Impact Report data, which projected 1.5 million visitors/staff trips per year to Kaiser after completion.
To view the official list of blocks here   [click here]

Piedmont Avenue Elementary School "WISH LIST"- [download PDF]

40th Street Bikeway/MacArthur BART Bicycle Access Improvements: Project Update 12/16/09

In September and October, we made six community presentations to hear neighbors’ ideas regarding the proposed bikeway and the community-based landscaping of the 40th St medians. At those meetings, we heard that residents were concerned about how the bikeway could adversely affect the median plantings. We also heard that people value improved bicycle access in North Oakland. This message provides an update since those meetings and an overview of next steps for the bikeway project...    [read more]


Oakland Unified School District's fiscal and educational priorities   
from Jody London, District 1 Board Director
[click here to watch her Power Point Presentation]

[click here for Jody London's Newsletter]




Review the pre-application plans as received from Safeway for the Rockridge Plaza Shopping Center: