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Translation Disclaimer. Gavin Newsom signed off on enacting the change throughout California. The Housing Element in Berkeley will determine how this change is applied, factoring in discussions around eviction and demolition protections, anti-speculation, proximity to transit, subsidized housing and public safety issues like wildfires, earthquakes and climate change.
Berkeley is supposed to permit 1, new housing units for residents with very low, low or moderate incomes during the current RHNA cycle; so far, it has granted permits for units, less than a quarter of that goal. Instead, they note that affordable units typically require a significant subsidy to get built, and say that without a lot more funding to help affordable housing projects pencil out, their construction will remain sluggish.
A long list of new housing policies will be incorporated into the update, including changes to the zoning code that would open the door for dense new development at the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations , in the Southside neighborhood and along San Pablo Avenue , as well as the effort to abolish single-family zoning.
And the city is developing a set of new objective standards for development — a process that could force choices between seeking to minimize the impact of new buildings on existing residents or giving dense projects an easier path to approval. That process will likely raise questions about how the city distributes new housing — namely, whether substantial amounts of new construction is allowed in areas such as North Berkeley that have fiercely resisted development, or if less-wealthy parts of the city such as South and West Berkeley will see a disproportionate share of new building.
Former Berkeley Mayor Shirley Dean is among those taking issue with the amount of new housing the city has to build in the first place. He and others on the City Council argue Berkeley, as the home of several large employers and a city with good transportation links to job centers such as San Francisco, ought to take on ambitious goals for new construction.
Skip to content Construction sites like this one in downtown Berkeley are likely to become more common in the coming decade as the city plans for its future.
Credit: Kelly Sullivan. A decade from now, Berkeley could look very different. What is a Housing Element? How can I get involved in creating the Housing Element?
Workers at a downtown Berkeley construction site on Oct. How much new housing is Berkeley planning for? What will be the most controversial pieces of the Housing Element? Nico Savidge is Berkeleyside's senior reporter covering city hall. Email: nico berkeleyside. Professor Hutson's interests cover the trans-mississippi West after the Civil War, especially the Great Plains and the open range cattle industry; California in the 19th century; and Westerns on film.
He has a collection of essays being published on Andy Adams a turn of the century writer on ranchers and trail drives , an essay on Gerald Vizenor's major autobiography, and an essay on Sam Peckinpah's rodeo film, "Junior Bonner. He is currently completing a second book on California's intellectual history in the twentieth century.
Klein teaches California and Western History, as well as 20th century American intellectual history. Kondolf is a fluvial geomorphologist whose research concerns environmental river management, influences of land-use on rivers, notably effects of mining and dams on river systems, interactions of riparian vegetation and channel form, geomorphic influences on habitat for salmon and trout, alternative flood management strategies, and assessment of ecological restoration.
Much of his research focuses on ecosystem restoration of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River system. Selected Publications include: Kondolf, G. Management of coarse sediment in regulated rivers of California. Report No. Kattelmann, M.
Embury, and D. Status of riparian habitat. II, Assessments and scientific basis for management options. The flushing flow problem: defining and evaluating objectives. Water Resources Research. Hungry water: effects of dams and gravel mining on river channels. Environmental Management.
Kimmerer, G. Kondolf, R. Meade, P. Moyle, and R. Strategic Plan for the Ecosystem Restoration Program. Kent G. Professor Lightfoot's area of research is North American archaeology, he specializes in the study of coastal hunter-gatherer peoples, culture contact research, and the archaeology of colonialism.
Since joining the Berkeley faculty in , much of his research has focused on prehistoric Native Californian peoples and their later encounters with early European explorers and colonists. His recent archaelogical investigations have focused on the Russian Colony of Fort Ross, where a collaborative team of UC Berkeley, California State Park, and Kashaya Pomo scholars are considering the long-term implications of multi-ethnic interactions between Russians, Native Alaskans, and Native Californians in this colonial community.
Recent publications on the Fort Ross investigations include:Lightfoot, K. Martinez and A. American Antiquity 63 2 Schiff and T. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 20 2 Colleen Lye is currently writing a book on the U.
She has published articles on Asian American literature and cultural studies, and serves on the editorial collective of Movements: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies , a new Routledge journal forthcoming in Spring
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