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DESCRIPTION:Last Friday two lawsuits were filed in Alameda County Superior Court 
 against UC Berkeley and the UC Regents. Two community groups and AFSCME 
 Local 3299 are challenging the impact of growth plans of the university. 
 Previously another filing was done on the Berkeley City Council’s 
 violations of the Brown Act, in formulating and adopting the City’s 
 recent secret “settlement agreement” with the University of 
 California.\n\nThe evening’s panel will discuss both legal and community 
 organizing actions to stop implementation of UCB’s Long Range Development 
 Plan (LRDP), a plan that seeks to destroy People’s Park and other 
 irreplaceable neighborhood and community assets in Berkeley.\n\nPanelists 
 include historians, preservationists and activists - Charles Wollenberg, 
 Lesley Emmington, Carol Denney, Joe Liesner and Harvey Smith.\n\nThe 
 exhibit includes photographs, art work, posters and memorabilia from over 
 50 years of spirited community involvement in preserving the irreplaceable 
 open space of the park.\n\nPeople’s Park is at the center of sixteen 
 other officially recognized city landmarks, which collectively are a de 
 facto historic district. They represent the heritage of the 1960s and the 
 larger theme of a century of town/gown relationships. Berkeley became a 
 major target of the New Right conservative backlash with Ronald Reagan 
 promising to “clean up the mess in Berkeley.”\n\nUC’s plans also 
 threaten three historic buildings, including a rent-controlled apartment 
 building, in another project funded by an anti-rent control 
 developer.\n\nThe university has exceeded its agreed enrollment limits, 
 creating enormous housing displacement throughout the city. The university 
 has responded to years of state budget austerity by monetizing its public 
 assets in a corporate-like growth that has also become a drain on city 
 resources.\n\nUCB proposes to cover People’s Park with a 17-story 
 concrete monolith, probably to be erected by a private housing firm that 
 will profit from student occupants. This would destroy both a historical 
 and cultural legacy and much needed open space when reasonable alternatives 
 are available.\n\nIf Berkeley all but invented the sixties, surely the city 
 and its university should be able to commemorate that decade by preserving 
 People’s Park as the heart and soul of a vital historic 
 district.\n\nMasks and Covid vaccination required.\nFor more information, 
 contact Harvey Smith at 510-684-0414.\nSponsored by the People’s Park 
 Historic District Advocacy Group.\n\n \n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/26/18844521.php
SUMMARY:The Closing of People’s Park?
LOCATION:Canessa Gallery\n708 Montgomery Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/26/18844521.php
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