Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
A century ago this week, Berkeley voters went to the polls May 6, 1924, for the presidential primary election and two consequential, hotly debated local initiatives.Berkeley, a Look Back: Landfill repeal put on city’s May 1924 ballot
The lumber industry and makers of wooden shingles retaliated with a petition drive that put a repeal initiative on the May 1924 ballot. Despite considerable opposition from city leaders, the repeal won, carrying 71 precincts citywide. The 35 precincts that voted in favor of the shingle ban were in the fire area itself, other hill districts and the Claremont neighborhood, all of them at great risk from future fires.
The repeal of the shingle ban put a nail in the coffin — or maybe we should say in the shingle — of any substantive local reform after the 1923 fire. Although water and firefighting services were improved, no other major efforts were carried out to change the way Berkeley planned and built in response to the fire.
From the early 1920s to the early 1960s, the city would fill a huge area of waterfront and there would be frequent proposals for commercial, industrial, residential or other development on that manmade land. Berkeley would not stop its garbage dumping and infill in the bay until the 1960s, after the Save the Bay Association organized.
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