Planning Commission

The Berkeley City Council unanimously approved proposed zoning at the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations during a special meeting Thursday that extended into Friday, setting the building height limit at both stations to seven stories.

As mail-in votes continue to be counted, incumbent Susan Wengraf is leading with 74.56% of the vote for Berkeley City Council District 6 over opponent Richard Illgen, as of press time.

After witnessing the "Ghost Ship" warehouse fire in 2016, Berkeley City Council candidate and social justice attorney Richard Illgen knows the tragedies a fire can induce and hopes to mitigate fire risk as the District 6 representative.

Here's what we know about the city of Berkeley and UC Berkeley's campus response to COVID-19, more colloquially known as coronavirus.

The city of Berkeley may soon forgo requiring parking spaces in new residential construction, pivoting residents away from driving in favor of more sustainable forms of transit.

The ASUC Senate passed one resolution regarding affordable housing and heard updates from UCPD about body-worn cameras at Wednesday night’s regular meeting.

UC Berkeley students attended a Planning Commission meeting Wednesday night to voice their support for the More Student Housing Now Resolution, and a motion was passed unanimously to review the proposals outlined in the resolution.

Some former ASUC members have become politicians, including state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, who served as the academic affairs vice president and a leader in the anti-apartheid movement on campus during her time as a UC Berkeley student.

Student voices and signs dominated Berkeley’s Planning Commission meeting Wednesday evening, many of them urging the commission to approve proposals aimed at facilitating affordable housing construction in the campus area.

On Aug. 30, less than a year after joining the Berkeley City Council, Councilmember Ben Bartlett formally announced his California 15th State Assembly District campaign for the 2018 election in the hopes of addressing affordable housing at a statewide level.