Ali Kashani

Berkeley City Council voted to repeal a 1970 ordinance that prohibits anyone from residing in a vehicle in city limits, as well as a 2019 ordinance that prohibits overnight parking of RVs or campers in their meeting on Tuesday.

After approximately five and a half hours of presentation, public comment and debate at Tuesday’s special Berkeley City Council meeting, a motion to overturn the approval of Berkeley Honda’s new dealership location on Shattuck Avenue fell one vote short of passing.

According to an independent expenditure report, the Berkeley Police Association’s political action committee spent about $18,000 on mailers for District 5 City Council candidate Stephen Murphy’s campaign, funded largely by small individual contributions from Berkeley police officers.

Amid neighborhood concerns, the city’s Zoning Adjustments Board, or ZAB, granted use permits to Berkeley Honda Sept. 8 that will allow its full service car dealership to move to a new location on Shattuck Ave.