The North Hills Landscape Committee is a community-based Landscape Committee in Oakland that focuses on school gardens, public gardens, vegetation management and emergency preparedness education.

Description:
The North Hills Landscape Committee assists with the maintenance of the Firestorm Memorial Garden, the Gateway Garden and Gateway Emergency Preparedness Center, and the Frank Ogawa Firescape Garden. We also work on school gardens with a number of schools that are a part of the Oakland Unified School District, and have provided advice ad support to school groups on developing school gardens. We are a local affiliate of California ReLeaf, the statewide grassroots tree planting network.

History:
The North Hills Landscape Committee began in approximately 1979 as a community based landscape Committee in the Hiller Highlands community of Oakland. We helped develop the Firestorm Memorial Garden after the Oakland Hills Firestorm in 1991, working with a coalition of public and private partners. We also assisted the City of Oakland and a coalition of public and private partners in developing the Gateway Garden and the Gateway Emergency Preparedness Exhibit Center, which serve a regional audience and educate local residents about fire and earthquake dangers and emergency preparedness. We have helped develop school gardens at a number of Oakland public schools, most recently assisting at the Henry J Kaiser Elementary School, Castlemont High School, the East Oakland School of the Arts, and Lakeview Elementary School. We also helped develop the Frank Ogawa Firescape Garden at the entry to the City of Oakland's North Oakland Sports Field.

Contact people:

Gordon Piper, Chair, (510) 843-3828, (email) Sue Piper, Publicity Director, (510) 843-3828, (email)

Office fax number: (510) 843-6768

Address:

33 Hiller Drive Oakland, CA 94618 (See a map)

Web Site: None specified

Directions:

Go up Ashby Avenue in Berkeley past the Claremont Hotel, when Ashby Avenue becomes Tunnel Road. Go up the hill past the Claremont Hotel to the traffic signal at the intersection with the Warren Freeway and Hiller Drive. Turn left into the traffic islands at this intersection, and then left again on Hiller Drive. Go one block on Hiller Drive until Hiller Drive start to turn. 33 Hiller Drive is on the left hand side at the bottom of the hill, next to the Bentley School at 1 Hiller Drive.   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: Rockridge Bart station,   Walk distance (in minutes): 20   Nearest Bus Stop: On Tunnel Road near 1 Hiller Drive, 1 minute walk

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