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Lamorinda Weekly Issue 11 Volume 9 Wednesday, July 29, 2015 • Vol. 9 Issue 11 4th Annual Golf & Tennis Tournament Independent, locally 26,000 copies owned and operated! delivered biweekly to Lamorinda homes Monday September 21 & businesses at the Moraga Country Club. 925-377-0977 www.lamorindaweekly.com Golf: FREE Driving Range Practice 10:30am Lunch 10:30am - noon, Golf Scramble 12pm Tennis: www.moragachamber.orgStart Time 1pm open to non-members A juvenile swallow waits for a meal from mom or dad at the Wilder sports complex in Orinda. You know that it’s a juvenile, according to birder Erica Rutherford, because of the yellow lines across its bill. Soon it will fledge and leave the nest. Photo Chris Lavin Protecting The Wild Things at Wilder By Chris Lavin ith civilization encroaching on lots of land are living right over bathrooms, not something humans would roof of the bathroom and the substructure, getting about as throughout Lamorinda, it’s no surprise that a necessarily choose, but it suits their needs just fine. excited as one of the swallows flying by her head. “This em- Wprotected band of cliff swallows has taken up “This Spanish architecture is perfect for them,” said Erica ulates exactly what their natural environment would be, on a residence at the sports complex in the Wilder housing devel- Rutherford, a birder who lives in Oakland but frequents the cliff, protected by an overhang.” opment in Orinda, seeking out their personal territory. They Wilder territory. She started pointing out the supports for the ... continued on page A14 Advertising She’s all about Lamorinda News A2 - A14 It starts with dreaming... Life in Lamorinda B1 - B10 Where to go from here? Not to be Missed B8-B9 How to make that happen? HOW TO CONTACT US Call Pamela and start turning B9 your dreams into reality! Food B10 925.323.4100 Service Directory B10 Sports C1 - C3 Pamela Halloran Real Estate Broker Classified C2 Licsense # 00936191 Shop Orinda C4 Our Homes D1 -D12 This Week Read About: Helping Others is in Firefighters’ Blood Saranap Village Gets Smaller A3 By Nick Marnell Lafayette Considers Sales Tax Academy 47 firefighters completed a Andrade said that his ConFire Increase A2 group training activity, they stopped peers were probably more excited Moraga Marquee Controversy A5 at a booth sponsored by Be The than he was and offered to cover all Adobe Restoration Inches Forward A6 Match, a bone marrow transplant reg- of his missed shifts. New Orinda Council istry, and entered their names. A rep- “I hadn’t even thought about the Member Chosen A6 Pension Reform Discussed A13 resentative swabbed the inside of risks,” he said. But Andrade, having SMC Teacher Summit B4 Andrade’s mouth for a DNA sample never been admitted to a hospital, did Lafayette Little League C2 and after his tissue type was tested, he make one confirming phone call became nationally registered as a about the procedure. “My sister is a bone marrow donor. nurse. She said it was cool.” Civic News A1-A14 Two months later, he received a After physicals and blood tests phone call at work. “It was a rep from came five days of blood preparation Moraga Planning Be The Match,” he said. “A gentle- at Alta Bates Summit Comprehensive man needed a marrow transplant, and Cancer Center in Berkeley. Andrade Commission approves my DNA and his matched.” The re- received daily filgrastim injections to Via Moraga development cipient was a 57-year-old male increase the number of blood stem project – page A4. leukemia patient. “It hit home,” said cells and move them from his marrow Daniel Andrade at Alta Bates Summit Comprehensive Cancer Center in Andrade, whose dad is 58, and who into the bloodstream. “They didn’t Fire Districts A8 Berkeley Photo provided saw a firefighter recently retire from hurt too bad, but my joints filled up or firefighter Daniel Andrade, tion District firefighter. “You don’t ConFire because of leukemia. with marrow,” he said. “My hips and Fdonating his blood stem cells to know anything about the people that People remain on the registry for knees swelled. I was completely Union questions station an anonymous patient was not much you are helping. You help them no 10, sometimes 20 years, before they worn out.” His stay at a hotel in 46 joint venture – page different from his standard job proce- matter who they are. When you sign are matched. “But two months? Berkeley, along with all of his med- A8. dure. up to be a firefighter, it’s totally in Wow! Those are crazy odds,” he said. ical and travel expenses, were paid for “It’s just like running a call,” said your DNA to help others.” “My first thought was, OK ... let’s do by the national program that operates the Contra Costa County Fire Protec- After Andrade and the rest of the it!” the registry. ... continued on page A8 Life in Lamorinda B1-B10 Sports C1-C3 Our Homes D1-D12 Volunteers Local clubs in Vintage pick up the Water Polo pieces the pieces after Junior perfect garden Olympics addition for vandalized Championship home décor – page B2. Division – – page D1. page C1 Page: A2 LAMORINDA WEEKLY www.lamorindaweekly.com 925-377-0977 Wednesday, July 29, 2015 STILL #1 FOR A REASON 2008 THROUGH 2015 Lafayette’s Best :0V`1H@Q%` 5:`:7VV Realtor Inviting 4BR/3.5BA, 3513± sq. ft. traditional on a dream, level .35± acre Public Meetings parcel with outdoor kitchen, lawn & gardens. Prime City Council Baywood court location in this sought-after, gated Dana Green Monday, Aug. 10, 7 p.m. License #: 01482454 Lafayette Library & Learning Center, neighborhood. Community Hall, 3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd. cV`VR: 312MaverickCourt.com Just Listed! Planning Commission Monday, Aug. 3, 7 p.m. DanaGreenTeam.com | 925.339.1918 Lafayette Library & Learning Center, Community Hall, 3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd. Design Review Monday, Aug. 10, 7 p.m. Priority Report Spurs Question of Possible Tax Lafayette Library & Learning Center, By Cathy Tyson Arts & Science Discovery Center, 3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd. esponding to results from the re- either, but they indicated an interest in Council wanted to put a general tax on parking lot, although there are a cou- Rcent Community Conversations clarifying the situation. the ballot, where revenue goes into the ple of wrinkles to consider. The Check online for agendas, meeting that identified issues residents wanted “The public has expressed an in- general fund to be used for public pur- Happy Valley Improvement Associa- notes and announcements to see the city accomplish over the terest in certain programs,” said City poses, it would need a simple majority tion is clearly not in favor of a large City of Lafayette: long term, the Lafayette City Council Manager Steven Falk, who made it to pass. If they chose a special tax that parking lot in its neighborhood and www.ci.lafayette.ca.us wrestled with how to fund them. clear that “you can’t afford (these pro- can only be used for a specific purpose, there is a very “narrow window,” as Phone: (925) 284-1968 Open space conservation topped the grams) without an additional revenue two-thirds of voters would have to ap- Falk explained, to chime in on Chamber of Commerce: list of chief concerns by residents who source. These are choices you have to prove – a more challenging threshold. BART’s expenditure plan. www.lafayettechamber.org responded to the “willingness to pay make.” Complicating the issue is the cur- The biggest hurdle for Council please... for” question on the survey, followed He gave a concrete example: In a rent statewide cap on additional sales Member Don Tatzin is having ample by crime surveillance, a larger police recent feasibility study, an expert taxes, which is now at a maximum of reason to ask voters to increase sales force, a bike path, the Park Theater drew up plans for a potential parking 2 percent above the current statewide tax. Looking at the Community Con- ...thanks! and a parking garage. garage slated for the city-owned par- level of 7.5 percent. It is possible that versations survey results, Council Council members noted at the cel at 949 Moraga Road. Construc- CCTA and BART may take action to Member Mike Anderson focused on July 14 meeting that parking and con- tion is estimated to cost $3.85 million increase their current tax rate. If they willingness to pay and concluded, gestion are definitely hot topics for 80 parking spaces. Falk contin- do that before Lafayette imposes a “We’re going to have to come up with around town and especially with the ued, “If parking is your highest prior- tax, the city would be limited to an in- a mechanism for funding,“ adding, Chamber of Commerce, as merchants ity, then the council needs to have a crease of 0.5 percent. Pending in the “Now may not be time to do it, but we complain about lack of parking for serious conversation on how you are state legislature is measure AB 464 need information to make a decision.” customers. It’s about to get even going to fund it.” that would increase the cap from 2 He wants to see if the business com- worse as the large KB Homes condo- City Attorney Mala Subramanian percent to 3 percent. The measure has munity is willing to support it. minium project gets underway, lo- outlined possible options if the City been approved by the state senate and Moraga, Orinda, Concord, Rich- cated on the former parking lot behind Council wanted to pursue putting a is going to the assembly.
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