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Coming up on the Berkeley City Council’s Agenda: November 17, homelessness, December 8, luxury housing project at 2211 Harold Way

Kelly Hammargren
Tuesday November 03, 2015 - 11:49:00 AM

As announced Monday, November 2, at the Berkeley City Council Agenda Committee, the hearing for all of the five 2211 Harold Way appeals is scheduled for December 8 at 6:00 pm. The location is not yet determined.  

Scheduled for November 17 City Council meeting is the first reading of Ordinance on Homelessness proposed by Councilmembers Linda Maio, Laurie Capitelli and Lori Droster. Additional services to be provided: 1) storage for personal belongings, 2) additional bathrooms 24/7 and mobile showers and bathrooms for public use. Disallowed: public urination and defecation, placement of carts in one location for more than 1 hour (must move to different block after an hour). The new ordinance on belongings and shopping carts is not supposed to go into effect until storage lockers are provided.  

Patti Wall and Osha Neumann spoke at the meeting against the proposed homelessordinances, pointing out that there is a new process for review of HUD grants. Cities that are reducing criminalization of homeless behaviors will receive points for higher consideration. Berkeley is going in the opposite direction by increasing criminalization of homelessness. There was no discussion of their comments by the agenda committee, and the meeting was adjourned at 2:45 pm, though it was scheduled to run until 3:30 pm.