This time it’s noise concerns cancelling the controversial $312 million development
BERKELEY, CA – AUGUST 3: Police officers work to move protesters from a gate at Peoples Park on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in Berkeley, Calif. UC Berkeley plans to begin constructing housing at the site for 1,100 university students and 125 homeless residents. The university houses only 23% of its students — the lowest percentage across all of the 10 campuses in the UC system.
“Left in place, this decision will indefinitely delay all of UC Berkeley’s planned student housing, which is desperately needed by our students and fully supported by the City of Berkeley’s mayor and other elected representatives,” Mogulof said in a statement. “This decision has the potential to prevent colleges and universities across the state of California from providing students with the housing they need and deserve.
In 1969, thousands of protesters marched to the site after UC fenced the public out before starting construction, and a bloody battle ensued when law enforcement pushed them back with tear gas and buckshot, sparking a state of emergency and one death. More than a half-century later, the University of California’s current proposal for the empty lot — now dotted with dozens of tents and felled trees from August’s clashes — features one 12-story and one six-story dorm building. More than half of the site would be preserved as open space, complete with newly planted trees and plaques memorializing the historic landmark’s past.
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