• @[email protected]
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    726 months ago

    Berkeley wants to turn the park into housing and I guess they hope the wall will keep protesters out.

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      506 months ago

      Surround the park with shipping containers, and done! It is now 100% dystopia appropriate housing!

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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      6 months ago

      Berkeley wants to turn the park where homeless people are staying into housing for homeless and undergraduates… While refreshing 60% of the park.

      Why are people upset about housing homeless and undergrads? Is this some NIMBY shit but people dont think it’s NIMBY because it’s their park this time?

      https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/

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          96 months ago

          Berkeley is a public school. They’re building government housing. But, it doesn’t matter to the groups who see outrage as a virtue and stall the progress they neverendingly clamor for.

            • @thedevisinthedetails
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              26 months ago

              NIMBYs care about all sorts of things and are staunchly against progress and housing the young and poor alike. This is entirely NIMBYism dressed up in progressive aesthetics and language.

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                -36 months ago

                Or, and this might be difficult to follow, make one of the adjacent buildings into homes and keep the park too?

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                  Since there are already buildings there and between zoning, tearing down existing buildings, building height limitations, parking minimums, moving tenants out, and possibly no net gain in units after new buildings are constructed what is accomplished?

                  Anyways miss me with the tone and do some actual investigation into this complexity.

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                    -46 months ago

                    Correct sometimes doing what’s best is a little more complicated. I’m glad you figured that out.