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    Berkeley's People's Park is again in a fight for the ages, now over UC student housing

    People's Park — among California's most contested and colorful patches of public land and a '60s era symbol of free speech and community power — is again embroiled in a battle for the ages, this time involving the University of California, Berkeley, a key environmental law and the acute student housing shortage. A state appellate court heard oral arguments Thursday over its tentative ruling ...
    by Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times Jan 12, 2023 6 minutes
    People’ s Park Council member Joe Liesner speaks during a rally hosted by the People's Park Council in Berkeley, California, on Wednesday, July 27, 2022.

    People's Park — among California's most contested and colorful patches of public land and a '60s era symbol of free speech and community power — is again embroiled in a battle for the ages, this time involving the University of California, Berkeley, a key environmental law and the acute student housing shortage.

    A state appellate court heard oral arguments Thursday over its tentative ruling last month that could delay UC Berkeley's plan to build badly needed student dorms. If the tentative ruling is made final, it is likely to open controversial new paths that stand to obstruct housing developments statewide, legal experts said.

    The tentative ruling stunned the university and drew condemnation from student leaders, lawmakers, Bay Area business executives and progressive law professors. In it, the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco found that the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, required developers to analyze and mitigate a project's potential "social noise'' — in this case the noise generated by students who may drink,

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