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Final Landmarks/DAPAC Meetings Scheduled

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday June 12, 2007

A joint subcommittee hammering out a proposal that would define the role of historic buildings in the center of downtown Berkeley will hold its final meeting Tuesday night. 

Members of the Downtown Area Plan Advisory Committee and the Landmarks Preservation Commission will present their work to a joint meeting of their parent bodies on June 20. 

While historic preservation was the theme of the city’s last downtown plan, adopted in 1990, the new plan stresses sustainabilty. 

Discussion of older buildings and their role in shaping the character of the city center have occurred repeatedly during discussion of the new plan DAPAC members must have ready by the end of November. 

The plan was mandated in the settlement of a city lawsuit challenging UC Berkeley’s Long Range Development Plan 2020. 

Both meetings are being held in the North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave. at Martin Luther King Jr. Way.