He was instrumental in helping get the Ed Roberts Campus built.
Dmitri Belser
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Berkeley home, formerly for sale for $1, demolished to make room for apartments
The developer and preservationists had hoped to save it, but the house was so large it would have to be cut in two to be brought through Berkeley streets.
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116-year-old brown-shingle home moved through the streets of Berkeley
This brown-shingle duplex had to be moved to make way for the construction of the 205-unit Acheson Commons complex.
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Berkeley preps new cellphone radiation safety law
The city of Berkeley is investigating whether to require retailers to hand out radiation-related safety sheets to customers who buy cellphones in town. Last week, a Berkeley City Council majority — with seven in favor and two opposed — voted to have staff prepare language for the new cellphone law. But whether council ultimately will vote to adopt that law is […]
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4 Berkeley buildings to get upgrades after library lawsuit
A bell tower constructed in 1878. A nursery school built in 1927. An import-export warehouse converted into a music venue. A prefabricated panel cottage put together in 1887. These four Berkeley structures will soon be improved, thanks to $87,000 generated by the settlement of a lawsuit between Berkeley and Concerned Library Users, a group that […]
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Anderson and Belser vie for District 3 council seat
There isn’t a big policy divide between two-term incumbent Max Anderson and challenger Dmitri Belser in the race for the District 3 City Council seat. The South Berkeley district is one of the more diverse in the city, both racially and socioeconomically. Although crime rates are down (as they are throughout Berkeley), crime remains a […]
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Disability advocate challenges Max Anderson for council
By Judith Scherr Dmitri Belser runs a program that makes technology accessible to disabled people, he chaired Berkeley’s Commission on Disability, he renovates dilapidated Victorian homes, and he has raised two sons. Now he wants to be the District 3 city council member. “I’ve been frustrated for a long time with how District 3 has been […]
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Berkeley home moves across town, slice of history saved
Last Sunday, a house went on a journey across Berkeley. To be precise, it was half a house, the top half, and eagle-eyed Berkeleyans may have spotted it making its way, slowly, at walking pace, from Albany Village into Berkeley on 8th Street, then down Gilman, down 6th onto University and then along Sacramento until […]