Planetizen, June 10, 2024, California Supreme Court Rules in Favor of People’s Park Housing
A plan to build student housing in People’s Park near the University of California, Berkeley will move forward after the state’s Supreme Court ruled in the university’s favor in a suit trying to stop the development. The lawsuit claimed that the EIR for the proposed development was inadequate and did not address potential noise concerns.
As Jessica Garrison and Hannah Wiley note in the Los Angeles Times, “The ruling marks what may — finally — be a decisive final chapter in a land-use saga that began when activists seized the parcel in a moment of 1960s protest and built a park with their own hands, hauling in sod and planting flowers. That launched a 55-year experiment in utopian ideals — and the harsh realities that sometimes trail after them.”
