News Updates

Flash: Telecommunications Companies Win Right to Place Antennas Near Ward Street Homes

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday November 06, 2007
Amidst jeers, catcalls and demands for the mayor's recall – and threats from Mayor Tom Bates that he'd clear the rowdy public from the chambers – the Berkeley City Council voted Tuesday to allow two powerful telecommunications companies to place their antennas atop UC Storage, adjacent to the neighborhood at Ward Street and Shattuck Avenue. The building is owned by developer Patrick Kennedy. -more-

News

Scandinavia to DAPAC: Low Is Beautiful

By Michael Katz
Tuesday November 06, 2007
As Berkeley’s downtown planning panel faces its Wednesday deadline to make, break, or abandon a compromise on raising buildings’ height limits, it might want to look to the decisions of those who’ve considered the issue a bit longer. -more-

DAPAC to Decide Downtown Heights

By Richard Brenneman
Tuesday November 06, 2007
High rises and high densities top the agenda for Wednesday’s Downtown Area Plan Advisory Committee meeting. -more-

Council Weighs Plan to Finance Solar Power

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday November 06, 2007
Berkeley could be the first city to pay upfront costs for residents upgrading energy efficiencies and/or going solar. -more-

Berkeley High Nominated as Historic Landmark

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Tuesday November 06, 2007
The Berkeley Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted on Thursday to nominate the Berkeley High School campus to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district . -more-

Agency Seeks Proposals to Replace Greenhouses with Homes

By Geneviève Duboscq
Tuesday November 06, 2007
The Richmond Community Redevelopment Agency (RCRA) is proposing to build a new housing development called Miraflores on the site of three Japanese American nurseries that date from the early 20th century. The greenhouse roofs are visible from west Interstate 80 near the Cutting Boulevard exit. -more-

Ex-Offenders Gather to Learn How to Clear Their Records

By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR
Tuesday November 06, 2007

City Manager, Police Chief to Respond To Committee Recommendations To Prevent Theft by Police

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday November 06, 2007

Don’t Direct Staff Without Permission, City Manager Reminds Council

By Judith Scherr
Tuesday November 06, 2007

Students Weave Stories into Murals

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Tuesday November 06, 2007

Downtown Copenhagen, seen from the City Hall tower. By Michael Katz
Downtown Copenhagen, seen from the City Hall tower. By Michael Katz

Editorials

The View From Above

By Becky O’Malley
Tuesday November 06, 2007
“Downtown Berkeley is at present a pretty desolate and unattractive place, one that many citizens avoid if at all possible.” -more-

Reader Commentaries

Letters to the Editor

Tuesday November 06, 2007

Why Do We Need Huge Buildings Downtown?

By Jesse Arreguin
Tuesday November 06, 2007

Downtown Planning and Building Heights

By Gerald Autler
Tuesday November 06, 2007

Funding Downtown Public Improvements

By JOHN N. ROBERTS
Tuesday November 06, 2007

‘1984’ Comes to DAPAC

By Doug Buckwald
Tuesday November 06, 2007

Neighbors Oppose Panoramic Hill Project

By Cathy Orozco
Tuesday November 06, 2007

Sustainability: What Have We Really Accomplished?

By Nazreen Kadir
Tuesday November 06, 2007

The Sad Truth About Our Departing City Attorney

By PETER MUTNICK
Tuesday November 06, 2007

Columnists

Snakes in the Reservoir, and Other Booms and Busts

Wild Neighbors: By Joe Eaton
Tuesday November 06, 2007

Gardener’s Gold

By Shirley Barker
Tuesday November 06, 2007

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Calendar

Tuesday November 06, 2007

Cuckoo at the Masquers Playhouse

By KEN BULLOCK
Tuesday November 06, 2007

Events Calendar

Berkeley This Week

Tuesday November 06, 2007