Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
Three rezoning matters were before the City Council that year on Nov. 10, and they “brought out the largest gathering to a meeting of the present council,” according to the Gazette. “The crowd not only packed the council chamber, standing up on either side and in the rear but also extended out into the hallway and behind the wallboard partition, which separates the charities department from the chamber.
Another resident said that “there are 400 homes in the proposed zone and only 11 second-rate factories.” A third, a former railroad man, complained that Sante Fe engineers blew their whistles for long periods in the middle of the night, waking up neighbors near the tracks. The council ultimately voted 7-1 to deny the proposal to rezone the railroad environs from industrial to residential use. If I may editorialize for a moment, this is an interesting incident in Berkeley history.
Ironically, although factories were zoned along the Sante Fe line, today trains and factories are gone, and the neighborhoods along the old rail line are almost all residential, with small retail/commercial areas zoned.Although no one is believed to have died in Berkeley’s fire of Sept. 17, 1923, some were not so sure in the conflagration’s immediate aftermath. Mrs. Ida Hewitt, of Los Angeles, telegraphed Berkeley police Nov.
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