El Cerrito

Al Abdallah’s attempt to link current Kensington, Talmadge and El Cerrito residents with these neighborhoods’ developers and their motivations a century ago is shallow at best.

The neighborhood associations, HOAs, “slow-growth” groups and others behind the most recent efforts to ostensibly protect “community character” – like those in Kensington, Talmadge, and El Cerrito – have something obvious in common.