Posted on 06/29/2007 1:20:23 PM PDT by SmithL
BERKELEY -- UC Berkeley officials said today they would scale back development plans for Memorial Stadium to avoid a looming court date with the city of Berkeley, stadium neighbors and oak-tree advocates.
Cal Athletic Director Sandy Barbour said the university would reduce the size of the proposed parking garage so that there would be no more spaces than are currently in the area. UC also would plant one fully grown tree and two younger trees for each one that would be chopped down to make way for a new, $125 million athletic training facility.
But Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates isn't biting
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Don't be silly.
Par for the course for Berzerkeley.
Berkeley has nothing to say about, outside the lawsuit.
UC is a state institution, and thus outside the jurisdiction of the city of Berkeley.
Berkeley officials know this. So, as usual with leftists, they go find a judge who will somehow “find” a reason to overrule the university.
UC had the same problem in San Francisco when they tried to build a parking garage for a law school. A powerful Democratic state senator threatened to cut the funding for the garage, so UC backed down.
If you’re going to play with leftists, you need to play rough.
Note to UC: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE announce you’re going to build a couple of 20-story dorms on UC-owned Peoples’Park.
>> oak-tree advocates
OAK TREES have advocates now?
I’ll bet the Oakland Oak Tree Advocates (OOTA) meetings are pretty exciting...
It is not just in Berkley, as we would all like to believe. My company is based in Columbia, SC. We wanted to expand our Maintenance Facility. The County (PBUThem) declared we must plant so many trees to be able to build our new building.
We are in the MIDDLE of woods. Could we transplant? No. We had to buy from ‘selected’ vendors.
Despite Reagan, Communism Lives.
Amen to your suggestion for Peoples Park! That has been festering since I lived in Bezerkley. The land was always meant for dormotories.
Leave Berkley.
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