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UC regents, City Council have turned their backs on Berkeley community
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In anticipation of this week’s UC Board of Regents meeting, the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group provided the regents with specific comments on UC Berkeley’s Final Environmental Impact Report, or EIR, which is required for approval of the campus’s Long Range Development Plan, or LRDP. The EIR is a review of potential environmental impacts of proposed projects required by the California Environmental Quality Act. Ironically, UC Berkeley describes the LRDP as “one of our most important tools for responsible long-term campus planning and for being a good community partner.”
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Berkley to mirror federal law, increase age to purchase tobacco products to 21 By: Mike Koury | C&G Newspapers | Published July 17, 2021
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OAKLAND COUNTY In an update to comply with federal law, the city of Berkley is moving to restrict the purchasing of cigarettes and other tobacco products for people under the age of 21.
At its June 21 meeting, the Berkley City Council approved the first reading of an ordinance that will raise the age of people eligible to purchase cigarettes, tobacco and nicotine products to 21. The previous age at which people could buy these products was 18.
The change is based on federal legislation that was signed at the end of 2019. City Manager Matt Baumgarten stated that the Berkley Public Safety Department had been working with City Attorney John Staran to bring the city into consistency with federal legislation.
Berkeley drops objections to UC construction project for $82.64 million
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The project at Hearst and La Loma avenues on the northeast edge of the UC Berkeley campus will move forward under an agreement between UC and the city of Berkeley.Solomon Cordwell Buenz
The city of Berkeley is dropping its objections to a University of California construction project on the northeast edge of campus and to continued increases in UC Berkeley enrollment in exchange for $82.64 million over the next 16 years to cover the city’s added costs in police and fire safety and other services.
In the settlement, Berkeley also agreed to withdraw lawsuits over the university’s plans for student housing at People’s Park and the 750-bed Anchor House project on the northwest side of campus, to a beach volleyball facility for women at the Clark Kerr campus, six blocks southeast of the main campus, and to UC’s long-range development plan that projects 48,200 students by 2036, an incre