Preservation Committee
What is the committee?
Concerned about what is happening to a historic structure in Oakland? The Preservation Action Committee focuses on working with project applicants, city staff, and community groups to ensure that Oakland’s historic fabric is respected and seen as an asset rather than an obstacle.
How do I join?
Please email our office to learn more about the committee and to join.
Current Projects
16th Street Train Station
Development continues around the station, but the station remains vacant. We are driving a community effort to bring the building back into use. If you care about this significant West Oakland structure, join us to advocate for it.
111 Fairmount Avenue
Unity Council has proposed redeveloping the site into affordable housing. We support this mission fully. But, the current design would demolish most of the building. We support adaptive reuse to accomplish both goals.
Moss House
Long owned and neglected by the City of Oakland, this structure is at major risk of fire due and break-ins. We monitor the house. More must happen though, so if you care about parks and Oakland maintaining its architectural legacy, join us.
We are calling on the city to take concrete steps to secure the building from demolition by neglect.
Dunsmuir House
Camron-Stanford House
This house recently had a fire and we are calling on the city to step up to help the house and its long time non-profit.
CCA left Oakland after 100 years and the site is currently being looked at for a housing project. All of the campus era buildings are proposed for demolition. Join us if you care about the CCA campus and want a voice in its future!
CCA Campus
Preservation Wins
GE Plant - OHA was instrumental in GE retaining and reusing an 18 acre former factory site. Without OHA's intervention, the site would have been simply capped with asphalt, creating a dead zone in the city.
King Block - OHA read the details in the Lake Merritt Station Area plan to hold the city accountable with regards to historic preservation at the King Block site.
1100 Broadway - OHA provided key design feedback to ensure a new office building fit in nicely next to its historic neighbor. The new office building provides seismic support to the historic structure, which was vacant since the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake.
1100 Broadway - OHA was able to improve the design of 1100 Broadway from these designs to the one you see today, which emphasizes verticality rather than a set of cubes.
Resources
The Planning Commission promotes the orderly growth and development of the City through studies, decisions on development proposals, policy recommendations to the City Council, and related activities.
The Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board identifies historic landmarks in Oakland, conducts design review hearings on historic properties, and advises the Planning Commission and City Council on preservation.
The City of Oakland has an extensive Historic Preservation Element, a historic survey of buildings, and tax programs such as the Mills Act.
Rehab Right fills the gap in home repair literature left by conventional home improvement books (typically insensitive to architectural design) and by restoration manuals (usually cursory in their technical explanations). As a result, the instructions in Rehab Right range from simple methods to complicated projects.
The Oakland Public Library and the Oakland History Center offer extensive archives to help advocate for Oakland's resources
Members
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Naomi Schiff
CHAIR
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Mary Harper
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Feleciai Favroth
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Daniel Levy
