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BERKELEY: Board to discuss People's Park safety
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 11/27/6 | Rick DelVecchio

Posted on 11/27/2006 7:52:37 AM PST by SmithL

The People's Park Community Advisory Board is to meet Dec. 4 to discuss how to make the park safer and more accessible to a wider range of users, including a proposal from the city and UC police to remove a dirt mound in the northwest corner of the park.

"There's a prevailing feeling that we want the park to be more widely used by the community," board member Joseph Halperin said. "There's no effort to exclude anybody or to tell anyone they can't use it."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: beserkeley; peoplespark

1 posted on 11/27/2006 7:52:39 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Arrest most of the population. It'll be safer.


2 posted on 11/27/2006 7:54:08 AM PST by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: SmithL
"There's no effort to exclude anybody or to tell anyone they can't use it."

Unless, of course, if you are a Boy Scout, Christian, male, heterosexual, Republican or white...

3 posted on 11/27/2006 7:58:13 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: SmithL

When I last saw it, several years ago, it was really a frightening place. Some of the people hanging out there seemed to go out of their way to look menacing.


5 posted on 11/27/2006 8:59:24 AM PST by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: madprof98

No change. Still a dirty, dangerous area!


6 posted on 11/27/2006 2:07:03 PM PST by Keyga8tor
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To: SmithL

Wait a minute. How can a "People's Park" be anything but a utopia?


7 posted on 11/27/2006 2:16:47 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: SmithL

I'm sure Kris Worthington will have this problem cleaned up in no time. He's been ignoring it for ten years, but he's all ready to get to work now!


8 posted on 12/05/2006 6:10:47 AM PST by bondjamesbond (Many Americans are invested in a US failure in Iraq, and will work diligently to bring it about.)
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