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After months of closure due to shelter-in-place orders, many Berkeley restaurants opened their doors for outdoor dining Friday, using spaces such as sidewalks, curbside parking spaces and courtyards.
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Berkeley City Council is set to vote at its May 26 meeting to establish a COVID-19 Business Damage Mitigation Fund, which will provide grants to businesses that experience property damage through vandalism or other “problematic behavior.”
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The city of Berkeley released more than $1.7 million in grants Monday to local businesses and arts organizations that have been affected by the coronavirus.
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The Dorothy Day House Berkeley Community Resource Center and the Downtown Berkeley Association partnered with local restaurants to create the Double Helping Hands program to provide to-go meals to Berkeley’s homeless community.
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Small and local businesses around Berkeley are struggling because of the COVID-19, colloquially known as the coronavirus, pandemic.
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The Shattuck-Adeline-Stanford Greenway Vision Plan models a three-mile pedestrian-bicycle route that would connect Berkeley, Oakland and Emeryville.
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The city of Berkeley’s Zoning Adjustments Board approved a plan Oct. 25 to construct an 18-story building with 274 new apartment units at 2190 Shattuck Ave. in Downtown Berkeley, the current location of a Walgreens.
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The complex, located a block from the west entrance of UC Berkeley’s campus on 2145 University Ave., will be made up of four buildings containing 205 apartments and 14,000 square feet of retail space. Residents are expected to move in starting mid-2020, according to a Mill Creek Residential press release.
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If the city of Berkeley wants to create policies that foster a greater sense of community and “quality of life,” it should do so for all of its inhabitants — not just those who can afford Berkeley’s incredibly high housing costs.
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The policy also prohibits individuals from lying down within the vicinity of a BART entrance. But after more than an hour of public comment at Thursday’s special meeting, Berkeley City Council sent the proposed policy back to city staff for revision.
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