And we're off to the state Supreme Court

People's Park confrontation last summer

The endless UC-Berkeley/People's Park saga continues through the court system. From the LA Times:

A state appellate court on Friday evening issued a final ruling that stops UC Berkeley from building badly needed student housing at People’s Park and opens controversial new paths to block development using the state’s environmental law. UC Berkeley said it would appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court and reiterated its commitment to reshape the park into a space for student dorms and supportive housing for low-income residents. The plan also includes the creation of a commemorative display honoring the park’s iconic legacy of free speech and civil rights and an open space with landscaping and trees. The court said the decision does not require UC regents to abandon the People’s Park project but to return to the trial court and “fix the errors” in the environmental review...

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-24/court-ruling-halts-uc-berkeley-from-building-student-housing-at-peoples-park.

As we have noted, this affair is connected indirectly to the push by the legislature and governor to increase enrollment at UC and especially the hard-to-get-into campuses. There is always the possibility that the legislature could step end, as it sometimes has done in cases where environmental reviews block desired projects.

Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i67VCYsNkQ.