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June 30, 2008, 11:39 AM ET
With Compromises, Berkeley Tries to Clear the Path to Building Amid Oaks
The University of California at Berkeley has made some compromises to clear the way toward building an athletic training center, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
“In documents submitted in Alameda County Superior Court, the university says it will scrap all non-football events at Memorial Stadium and drop plans to attach a concrete support beam to the stadium’s west wall, two roadblocks cited in a judge’s interim ruling in the case last week,” the article says. “UC’s proposed judgment also asks Judge Barbara Miller to immediately lift an injunction that prevents the university from beginning construction on the center in a grove of oak trees next to the stadium, where tree-sitters have been roosting for 18 months in protest of the university’s plans to cut the trees to make way for the training center.”
The plans to remove the support beam were met with concern by both city officials and opponents of the plan, who had thought that the beam was necessary for structural integrity.
Even if the plans meet approval with the courts and the city, the university still has to deal with the tree sitters, who have said that they will not come down until the grove is protected. Supplies of food and water for the protesters were cut off last week, then resumed, the Chronicle reported. The university said that it hopes the protesters will abide by the court’s ruling.
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