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— Place, history, and local stewardship

The civic work.

Local history projects and parks stewardship in the East Bay. Grounded in Lafayette, in the conviction that what neighborhoods choose to remember matters.

— Also part of the practice

Parks, history, and ongoing service.

01 / Service
Lafayette Parks, Trails, and Recreation Commission.

Appointed Parks Commissioner. The commission shapes how Lafayette stewards its parks, trails, and public spaces — including the segment of the regional trail that runs through town.

Current term
02 / Interactive history
A Sacramento Northern electric interurban train rounds a bend on the Shepherd Canyon corridor, mid-twentieth century. A vintage car shares the parallel road.
Courtesy Western Railway Museum Archives

Burton Valley History Project.

A brief history of the Shepherd Canyon Freeway.

An interactive StoryMap walking through the never-built freeway corridor — the proposed route that would have cut through the East Bay hills from Pleasant Hill down through Lafayette and Moraga. Pairs archival routing plans with the present-day neighborhood, showing what was almost paved over.

The story follows the corridor from its origin as a mid-century highway plan through the freeway-revolt era of the late 1960s that quietly killed the project.

Open the StoryMap ↗

For civic and community inquiries.

Journalists, historians, students, neighbors, partner organizations — email Shane directly.

— Civic, press, community
Email Shane directly

shane@theregional.io

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