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Orinda’s council awarded a Community Park construction contract, renamed California Shakespeare Theater Way and established sidewalk vending fees. It also requested a revised playground input process and work on subdivision rules.
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Contractors at the Lafayette BART Bike Station site have finished milling asphalt and plan concrete pours and asphalt inlay the week of Tuesday, Oct. 13.
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Lafayette's City Council will vote Thursday on whether to directly appoint three uncontested candidates or send the races to the November ballot, a decision that will shape who guides the city's Mt. Diablo Boulevard corridor development.
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Construction crews on Lafayette's BART Bike Station and Pathway Project completed art pole foundations and will begin electrical, storm drain and concrete curb work the week of Aug. 17, though the project's original summer completion target has slipped.
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Orinda residents challenged the city's fire-tax allocation to MOFD and blasted a private-road maintenance options matrix as unfair in public comments filed for the Monday, Aug. 17 Infrastructure Subcommittee meeting, while a 106-signature petition for Zoom access went unaddressed for a seventh month.
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Orinda City Clerk Sheri Smith is retiring in September after 10 years; City Manager Linda Smith has appointed Joelle Fockler, Concord's current city clerk, to start Aug. 31.
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Orinda's Traffic Safety Advisory Committee confirmed Monday, Aug. 17, that all four speed cushion requests — the oldest from 2019 — remain on hold with no update, while the city's $30,000 traffic calming budget sits unspent 47 days into the fiscal year.
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Lafayette's Planning Commission will vote Monday on a land-use permit that would allow Tilden Preparatory School to open a campus at 3435 Mt. Diablo Blvd., pulling a storefront from the city's retail-zoned corridor; the same meeting previews free pre-approved ADU designs developed jointly for all three Lamorinda cities.
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Orinda's Traffic Safety Advisory Committee meets Monday evening with four speed cushion requests on hold, a $30,000 traffic calming budget untouched since the fiscal year began July 1, and the city's first bicycle and trails plan update since 2011 on the agenda.
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The California State Senate voted 33-0 on Aug. 13 to designate the Diablo Range a state conservation priority under the 30x30 initiative, with Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan authoring the resolution that puts the mountain range anchored by Mount Diablo on the state's official protection list.
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The Diablo Firesafe Council holds its sixth and final Regional Priority Plan stakeholder meeting Thursday, Aug. 20, at 11 a.m. via Zoom, giving Lamorinda residents one last chance to weigh in on which fuel-reduction and evacuation projects get prioritized across the region.
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BART's permanent schedule change, effective Monday, Aug. 10, spaces Yellow and Red Line trains 10 minutes apart instead of the old 5-then-15-minute pattern, shifting departure times at Lafayette and Orinda stations by several minutes. Late-night single-tracking work Aug. 20–22 will add 20-to-25-minute delays on the Yellow Line.
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Lafayette's City Council nomination period has been extended to Wednesday, Aug. 12, at 4 p.m. after an incumbent did not file by the original Friday, Aug. 7, deadline, opening the door for new candidates under California Elections Code §10225.
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EBMUD is removing 40 feet from the top of the nearly century-old Lafayette Reservoir Tower in a $14 million seismic safety project expected to finish by October, permanently altering the landmark after years of community opposition.
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