BERKELEY — People’s Park is fenced in — officially marking the start of UC Berkeley’s construction of a $312 million student housing project on the historic property. In the wee hours o…
A small handful of protesters and activists vying to preserve the park — bounded by Telegraph Avenue, Bowditch Street, Dwight Way and Haste Street — were arrested after lying limp in front of construction tractors trying to make their way inside under bright floodlights.
In addition to 1.7 acres that will be preserved as open space, the university has included tentative plans to honor the history of People’s Park with a memorial walkway, murals and photo displays. “They knew that they could not bring out this all-out offensive in broad daylight when there were still numbers in the park,” Harger said. “This falls well into UC’s facade: clean, crisp and put together as an academic institution. They’ve orchestrated this quite well.”
Additionally, their attorneys claimed that UC officials failed to consider more than a dozen other locations for the housing rather than People’s Park, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in June. After returning to the park Wednesday morning, she said protesting was the only thing she could do to voice her opposition to UC “depriving the community of a sacred space.”
BERKELEY, CA – AUGUST 3: A fence has been erected around the perimeter of Peoples Park on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in Berkeley, Calif. UC Berkeley plans to begin constructing housing at the site for 1,100 university students and 125 homeless residents.
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