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UC regents, City Council have turned their backs on Berkeley community Last Updated 2 hours Ago In anticipation of this week’s UC Board of Regents meeting, the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group provided the regents with specific comments on UC Berkeley’s Final Environmental Impact Report, or EIR, which is required for approval of the campus’s Long Range Development Plan, or LRDP. The EIR is a review of potential environmental impacts of proposed projects required by the Cal...

Legislative Black Caucus Celebrates Juneteenth Much like the story of Juneteenth, the California Black miners’ experience is largely excluded from texts and research. But one of those stories of servitude was told by the event’s keynote speaker Jonathan Burgess from the California African American Gold Rush Historical Association. Published 12 hours ago ByAntonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media & Post News Staff CA Secretary of State Dr. Shirley Weber and S...

The demolition of the 59-year-old building on iconic McCarthy Mall is scheduled to be complete in mid-July.

Snyder Hall University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Snyder Hall, scheduled for demolition in June, will be remembered for its world-class research, and for many, being part of bygone era when laboratory animal science was a common practice at universities around the country. As researchers made groundbreaking discoveries, former students and employees from the 1970s and 1980s recall the eerie animal noises echoing through McCarthy Mall, where Snyder Hall is located. The five-story concrete buildi...

Print After some heavy modifications to UC San Diego’s request, the San Diego City Council voted May 18 to lift certain deed restrictions on 43 acres where the university plans development of a hotel, wellness center and other east campus projects. Projects on two parcels east of Interstate 5 include extended-stay lodging and a conference center for UC San Diego Health patients, visiting university faculty and academic symposiums; intergenerational housing and a wellness center for retired un...

The Innovation Center is a proposed seven-story building at the intersection of Villa La Jolla Drive and La Jolla Village Drive at the former site of Rock Bottom Brewery. It would include five levels of UCSD Health Sciences and Extension uses, two levels of above-grade parking and two levels of subterranean parking. It is planned to have about 110,000 square feet of office and educational space, a ground-floor cafe accessible to the public and approximately 275 parking spaces. UCSD senior commu...

The city of Berkeley and its community members have denounced campus’s 2021 Long Range Development Plan, or LRDP, and its environmental report for its lack of consideration of impacts on the city. The LRDP draft provides guidelines on how campus should improve transportation and infrastructure, use campus-owned land and address the housing shortage from now until the 2036-37 academic year. It also provides estimates on the student and faculty population growth for the next 15 years. “An LRD...

Day Around the Bay: Schwarzenegger Wants Lots of People to Run In Recall Former CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has weighed on the recall, saying Caitlyn Jenner and anyone who wants to run "has a chance." Annoyingly, Schwarzenegger is supporting the effort and saying, "I hope as many people as possible are jumping into this race and going for it." [ABC7] The city of Berkeley and UC Berkeley are once again at odds, this time about the universitys recently unveiled 2021 Long Range Development P...

Berkeley slams UC Berkeleys long-term plans in fight over housing FacebookTwitterEmail People’s Park is pictured with UC Berkeley’s campus in the background. Students are rallying and camping in the park to protest UC Berkeley’s plan to develop the property as student housing.Noah Berger / Special to The Chronicle The city of Berkeley and UC Berkeley are at odds once again over the university’s long-term development plans. In a 75-page letter sent last week, the city lambasted the unive...

The UC San Diego Hillcrest Campus contains aging hospital and medical buildings and infrastructure with needs for seismic upgrades. The Hillcrest Town Councils (HTC) next virual community meeting will be held Tuesday, April 13 at 6:30 pm. Join us for an update from UC San Diego on their Hillcrest Health Campus Redevelopment efforts following the UC Regents adoption of their 2019 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) and accompanying Environment Impact Report. The UC San Diego Hillcrest Campus co...