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The sickening smell of beer in northwest  

Berkeley does little to improve the neighborhood 

Editor: 

Today's a warmer day, sunny, lovely; except that when I go out to enjoy the yard, or for a walk, or if I open a window I get the sickening, penetrating blast of smell from the breweries in northwest Berkeley. I've been trying to figure out what to do about that for about three years, now, ever since some care LESS paper signing permitted them. Now, no one knows what can be done about it, except to ask them nicely not to do it. So far that hasn't worked. 

While they've lessened some of the smell, it still pervades one's days. As part of our dis-united-ness, and that most people seem not to be around during the time of the smell, or most people don't come out of houses closed up like cocoons for reason of one reasonable fear or other, the few of us who at least feel abused by the smell, have no further recourse. I wonder whether people who buy into this neighborhood at $300,000 to $400,000 a pop will begin to wonder why it wasn't disclosed to them that an irritant exists here. 

Or, I suppose they'll be away at work needing to work huge hours at all-consuming jobs to pay those mortgages. 

Norma J F Harrison 

Berkeley