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Berkeley’s City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to adopt an ordinance giving the title of the land to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, a San Francisco Bay Area collective led by women that works ...
Berkeley (/ ˈ b ɜːr k l i / BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley.
On the Berkeley City Council, Robinson was a vocal advocate for increased housing production. Robinson led the city council in committing to end single-family zoning, [8] which was originated in Berkeley, and was an outspoken supporter of UC Berkeley's proposed student housing and permanent supportive housing project at People's Park. [9]
At least 76 California cities passed similar ordinances by the start of 2023. ... “The City of Berkeley deserves a lot of credit for acting quickly in 2019 to protect its residents from health ...
In June 2023, Boise City Council unanimously approved a rewrite of the city's zoning code that allowed duplexes and cottage court homes on most of the city's residential land. Small portions of the city were excluded from the upzoning. The new code took effect on December 1, 2023. [32]
Early postcard picturing the Equitable Building Graph of the 1916 New York City zoning ordinance with an example elevation for an 80-foot street in a 2½-times height district. In 1916, New York City adopted the first zoning regulations to apply citywide as a reaction to construction of the Equitable Building (which still stands at 120 Broadway ...
Plans for implementing the East Bay Green Corridor have led to a significant zoning controversy in Berkeley, particularly in the light industrial area known as West Berkeley. To entice green energy start-ups to the area, Bates and city planning staff have proposed changing existing zoning regulations and instituting a revised master use permit ...
They won and Berkeley became the first city in California to have rent control since World War II. [25] Other cities around the country followed and some still remain in effect or have been reintroduced in certain cities with large tenant populations, such as New York City , San Francisco , Los Angeles , Washington, D.C. , and Oakland, California .