During Tuesday’s meeting, the Berkeley City Council arrived at a standstill regarding regulations for the longstanding efforts to build accessory dwelling units.
Community members gathered Tuesday in front of Freehouse Berkeley to protest the Berkeley Property Owners Association, or BPOA, celebrating the end of the COVID-19 eviction moratorium.
Berkeley is accelerating plans to more humanely deal with homelessness in the wake of a San Francisco Public Press report on a chaotic encampment raid in October, and city staffers say they will start collaborating with unhoused people and homeless advocates when planning to clean or clear large encampments.
Several city departments are changing procedures in response to complaints from those living in encampments and their advocates, and from residential and commercial neighbors.
Berkeley City Council unanimously passed a new surveillance policy June 13 enabling the use of public security cameras by Berkeley Police Department in West Berkeley.