In 7-2 vote, Berkeley council approves broad package to reimagine policing
Thursday’s vote was a budget referral: The package will come back in June so officials can decide what will actually be funded in the coming years.
Thursday’s vote was a budget referral: The package will come back in June so officials can decide what will actually be funded in the coming years.
“When we work together as a whole community we can make real progress,” Mayor Jesse Arreguín said Thursday.
The city could remove limits on tall buildings downtown, and provide quick approval for small apartments in most neighborhoods.
Some pandemic-forced changes will stick, while others — including aid for struggling tenants — face an uncertain future.
The flyers have been tied to a fringe white supremacist group. Similar flyers have been distributed across the Bay Area.
The City Council approved a short-term paving plan, with the hope that voters will approve new funding for roads in November.
Street paving, affordable housing at BART could see surge of new funding — if voters back largest-ever ballot measure.
Berkeley hasn’t decided whether to grant 61 workers’ requests for medical or religious exemptions to the vaccine mandate.
Mayor Jesse Arreguín and others are making the case for a new measure raising hundreds of millions of dollars for infrastructure and housing.
The camera proposal was just one part of a $5 million funding package designed to address traffic safety, social services and more.
The former trackbed of a Santa Fe railroad line that once cut through West Berkeley could become a multi-block city park.
The deal paves the way for a building boom at the Bayer campus in West Berkeley, which could add 1,000 new jobs.
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