Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking California’s highest court to resurrect UC Berkeley’s controversial plan to build student housing at People’s Park.
In the meantime, Newsom also argued that the appeals court did not adequately answer the question of whether infill developments that add new residents to an already densely populated area present a CEQA violation or are simply “natural consequences of urban life.”
Berkeley City Attorney Farimah Brown shared many of these same concerns in an April 20 petition to the courts. If CEQA is ruled to require that public agencies mitigate impacts of “perceived social traits” of future residents, she said, it will threaten the city’s ability to approve projects intended to help house people who have historically been excluded from the community — including affordable housing projects, group homes, senior facilities, rehab facilities and more.
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