An all-volunteer committee has prepared recommendations for pedestrian and traffic improvements at the intersections of Lakeshore/Lake Park Avenues and Lakeshore/MacArthur Blvd. and for northbound Lakeshore between MacArthur and Lake Park. Please read and weigh in. Your input is important!

The departures of See’s Candies and GapKids, and other changes, open up significant retail vacancies on Lakeshore and Grand Avenues. How will they be filled? Ken Katz explains that history shows the best tenants result from an engaged community, and the time is ripe to renew that process.

Councilmembers Kernighan and Nadel host a community meeting this Thursday, June 26, at 7 PM to discuss ways to manage Lake Merritt’s profusely pooping population of geese.

In his Rand Avenue succulent garden, Hayden Foell may be showing us a glimpse into the future of the California landscape given the severe drought predictions arising from Global Warming. He will discuss a proposal to landscape the Lakeshore Avenue off ramp (across from the future Trader Joe’s) this Thursday, June 7.