This Wednesday marks the start of “official” public talks regarding the inclusion of car dealerships into West Berkeley zoning. Mayor Tom Bates has been a relatively long time supporter of the idea due to the financial benefits it offers to the City as a whole. Click here for link to today’s Daily Planet article or here for related past posts on the cameliastreet blog.
Following is the exerpt from this week’s Planning Commission agenda:
“…Preliminary Discussion of Potential Zoning Change Options in West Berkeley for Business Retention of Automobile Sales (No action will be taken.) (Report to be delivered)” *Click here for complete Planning Commission PDF agenda.
Per today’s Daily Planet, Pacific Steel will have a brand new carbon filter in operation by September 2006. This should mitigate the foul odor (but not the chemicals) coming from plant #3.
Don’t know when they started doing this, but the City of Berkeley’s Newscan webpage now cites individually run local blogs as news sources right alongside the Berkeley Daily Planet, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, etc. The most recent example of this can be seen in the Oct. 5 2005 Newscan archive section, items #13–#15 below.
Oct. 4 2005 Berkeley Daily Planet: West Berkeley Forum Challenges Rezoning of Major Thoroughfares
Click here for related articles in past posts.
Oct. 4, 2005 Daily Planet Tenants reluctantly agree to relocate by the end of the month.
Sept. 30 2005: Robberies at gunpoint around 1am on the 1200 block of 4th Street and 6th and Gilman. It may be that this is the same incident, and that one of the articles gave the incorrect locale–or it may involve the same perpetrator(s) since it appears to be the same time, vicinity, and weapon.
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