WAY BACK WHEN – NIMBY in 1925

Dateline: March 1925

A notice in the local paper detailed the restrictions on life in one of the newest neighborhoods called Samarkand Hills. “No living in garages; no chickens, horses, or goats allowed” – “we don’t want manure … we do want peace and quiet unbroken by the crowing and cackling of poultry”; no poles for electric wires or telephone lines (all wires underground), private residences only – no boarding houses, hotels, apartments, or bungalow courts; home must cost $5,000 or more; no eucalyptus or pepper trees; no drilling for oil.”

Samarkand Hills is roughly east of Las Positas Road, West of Mission Creek, south of Stanley Drive, and north of Tallant Road. Basically, it is the northern part of what is called the Samarkand neighborhood today.

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