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Real Estate

Apr. 4, 2024

Berkeley activists concede fight to save People’s Park

An attorney for activists who tried to stop the development told the California Supreme Court Wednesday that a “social noise exemption” should not allow the university to build non-residential projects as part of its long-range development plan.

Nearly 55 years after a group of activists started planting sod, trees and flowers on a vacant lot owned by the University of California a few blocks south of the UC Berkeley campus, an attorney representing a neighborhood group conceded to the state Supreme Court on Wednesday that People’s Park will soon cease to exist.

San Francisco attorney Thomas N. Lippe said a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom following a 1st District Court of Appeal pa...

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