Author: adrielhampton
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Not in my name
While the City uses our tax dollars to slap around one of Walnut Creek’s oldest families, the women of Casa Cristina have been digging into their own pockets for decades to protect their property. The home’s history is documented in Bay Area publications back to 1933, and in 2001 architectural and landscaping surveys found national…
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See that creek? They’ve been good stewards
When Elizabeth Heidt was a child, she remembers the creek very green, gunked up with algae. Occasionally stinky. Ducks were the only wildlife in sight. … Things have changed since then. Sunday I watched a blue heron take off not 50 feet from the wooden steps that lead from Casa Cristina to the creek. Herons…
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Fighting City Hall
“I’m not against the library … I’m against the destruction of my family home,” says Elizabeth Heidt. … Heidt is a seventh-generation Californian and mother of the sixth generation to occupy Casa Cristina, the adobe-style residence on Live Oak. For what seems like the umpteenth time in the 70-odd years her family has lived here,…
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Misuse of eminent domain
The C.C. Times ran an interesting editorial today that should help pressure the Council on the wisdom of planting a parking garage and new retail stores in Civic Park. … Times editors, while coming out strong for support of a new library, counseled City leaders to do away with the issue of eminent domain for…
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How to Help, Part Duex
Things are heating up in the campaign to stop the Council’s poorly conceived library bond, and folks from other causes are getting on board as well. One supporter followed me home yesterday to talk about problems with the new General Plan, and we’re reaching out to Walnut Creek Dog as well. … I ask, why…
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Roses for Regalia
Rather than take heed of growing voter sentiment against the Council’s plans to break the civic bank for a giant garage, retail stores and big-box library in Civic Park, Councilwoman Gwen Regalia in today’s W.C. Journal dismissed the 92 residents who took the time to rank the City’s key issues. … “It indicates that there…
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The people are with us!
I couldn’t help but grin as I read this morning’s Walnut Creek Journal. A few days ago I asked CC Times editor Chris Lopez if he thought the paper’s coverage was tapping true voter sentiment. I posed perhaps not, since most of the coverage focuses on official actions, while the people are “too busy fighting…
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Photos
Hey! That’s why I love blogger. It’s easy as pie to add photos. Send in your favorite Civic Park images and I’ll add my own over the weekend. … Meanwhile, enjoy this shot of the gazebo from the City Web site. …
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Save the trees
What will incorporation of the Maxwell property into the library design mean for Civic Park? The loss of historic trees, for one thing. Hopefully this weekend I’ll get photos up and we can look at some of the leafy giants slated for the axe. … (And earlier than expected, pictures of our shady friends.)
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How to help
Ready to get involved? Download the nifty “Save Civic Park” flyer (click here – updated to reflect win on eminent domain) and pass it around your neighborhood or keep stacks at the counter of your downtown business. Or print out a copy of our car sign (click here) and display it proudly in your car…
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