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Development limits are much needed
Editor:
Michael Katz’ 8/15 letter regarding Kennedy’s Gaia Building reflects many of my negative opinions about its scale, design, and impact. I will add my horror of how many more cars this building will generate in the downtown area; I am writing on the moving-in-weekend for UC students as our city’s streets transform into a rat maze; its parking into a nightmare.
My neighborhood association is struggling with the developer of the Outback Restaurant site at Blake and Sacramento, and we, too, have gotten a taste of the co-mingling of money, power and politics. How about a two-story limit such as the one for both the Elmwood and Solano districts, before only shadows hit the sidewalks and streets and services cannot meet the needs of anyone.
Nancy Wilson
Berkeley
