Michelle Kenyon, Piedmont City AttorneyBurke, Williams and Sorensen, LLP Legal Interpretation of Section 9.02 of Piedmont City Charter INTRODUCTIONQuestions have been posed regarding whether a vote of the electorate is required under City Charter Section 9.02 to modify the permitted or conditional uses or increase densities within an established zone. Both the Charter and City…
Piedmont’s long-standing City Attorney, Michelle Kenyon, retired this month. Piedmonters didn’t get a good look at her work – most of the legal analysis she prepared was not available to the public under attorney-client privilege, and the more complex legal matters for the city were contracted out to specialists. She frequently did provide advice on…
Hunter Fasteau: You are NOT my voice on the Piedmont Board of Education! As a student representative on the school board, your role is to express the desires of the Piedmont student body as a whole and offer the school board insight. At a school board meeting, you passionately expressed the stress you were under…
The City of Piedmont is conducting a sustainability assessment of city parks to define land uses and landscaping practices that will maintain these resources for future generations. To that end, city staff is conducting pop-up sessions in the parks this week as well as an online survey to learn what residents like most about the…
The following is a time-line of communications between city staff, the Park Commission and The Water Board preceding the closure of the Linda dog park in April, 2025: January 4, 2023 Update on the Linda Dog park at the Park Commission meeting PW Director Gonzales: “Its not so much even money but there’s a certain…
Residents questioning the safety of the Moraga Canyon Specific Plan by posting “Is it Safe” signs around town were accused of using public safety as a “boogeyman” to conceal their dislike of “poor people” coming to Piedmont. That’s a cheap shot given how poorly the question of how the project could impact emergency evacuation is…
Thank you to the Piedmont Police for shutting down the house party on the 2000 block of Oakland Avenue after the 09/27/2025 PHS homecoming dance. After years of having to listen to screaming teenage parties from this house, the parents of the 2 daughters received a citation for the delinquency of minors. From my understanding,…
Most people complaining about how adding less than 200 housing units is somehow going to make us all die in a fire are completely disingenuous. Just say you don’t want poor people in Piedmont. We all know you’re thinking it. And by the way, the “IS THIS SAFE?” Yard signs are overly busy and poorly…
Holy bloody hell! The school board recently approved a 2025-2026 contract worth $605,250.00 between PUSD and Pine Health for 2 positions: Questions:
The push for a massive development in Moraga Canyon is not just misguided; it is being orchestrated by a City Administrator whose tactics prioritize expediency over public safety. The proposal for 197 units in a high-fire-risk zone, dependent on a narrow, two-lane evacuation route, is a recipe for disaster. This flawed process mirrors the Linda…
