"A century ago, the Berkeley Daily Gazette reported that Berkeley's City Council, acting in response to a request from the city of Albany, voted to "cooperate with Albany in extending Santa Fe Avenue as a parallel highway to San Pablo Avenue." Berkeley Councilmember Elmer Nichols said "he favored making the extension, stating he believed it would tend to bring Albany residents to Berkeley's shopping center, where now they continue down San Pablo Avenue into Oakland.""
"Another interesting aspect of that Aug. 28, 1925, council meeting was that it "was held without a single citizen in the audience, the first time in the history of (the) city manager form of government. Lack of an audience was due largely to the fact there were no zoning matters on the program and the good weather." Real estate: Home sales were booming in Berkeley a century ago, and photographs of houses for sale in the Gazette were increasingly common."
Berkeley's City Council voted to cooperate with Albany to extend Santa Fe Avenue as a parallel highway to San Pablo Avenue. Councilmember Elmer Nichols supported the extension to attract Albany residents to Berkeley's shopping center rather than letting them travel down San Pablo Avenue into Oakland. The Aug. 28, 1925, council meeting had no citizens present, attributed to lack of zoning items and good weather. Home sales in Berkeley were booming around 1925, with many houses advertised and still standing today. A San Lorenzo Avenue house was described with gumwood finishes, furnace, automatic water heater, and double garage.
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