UC Berkeley will pay for the aftermath of protests against a controversial housing project for students and homeless residents at the historic site
last year racked up more than $4 million in excess costs for UC Berkeley, a records request has revealed., when demolition crews quickly fenced in the park and downed dozens of trees on the university-owned site three blocks south of campus, which was once a center of 1960s political protest. Over two days, protesters foiled the university’s attempt to start construction on its controversial housing project for 1,100 students and 125 unhoused residents on the historic site.
The police response at the park — bounded by Telegraph Avenue, Bowditch Street, Dwight Way and Haste Street — was led by University of California Police Department officers, with help from the California Highway Patrol and California State University officers. Mogulof said that $2.73 million includes outside officers’ room and board, physical security supplies and overtime for UC Berkeley police personnel.
So why should the greater Berkeley community care that a $312 million UC housing project — complete with a dedicated contingency fund — will swallow an additional $4 million in expenses and ballooning interest costs during years of delays? But many activists working to preserve the park are left wondering whether UC Berkeley reflected on where they went wrong in August, given the fact that they’re left with a “hefty price tag for nothing,” according to Andrea Prichett, a member of the People’s Park Council who was one of the protesters arrested for blocking the construction in August.
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