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Let’s save CEQA and
restore Individuals’s Park
I’m disturbed by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks’ invoice, AB 1307, to preempt CEQA and destroy Individuals’s Park. There are different locations for UC Berkeley to construct housing. And why construct pupil housing for 17- and 18-year-olds adjoining to a proposed shelter for homeless folks with issues?
Individuals’s Park is historic — additionally one of many solely open areas in densely populated south Berkeley. The park must be restored as a neighborhood useful resource, relatively than tolerated as a homeless encampment.
CEQA is the preeminent environmental regulation of California and in addition permits folks to take part in issues that have an effect on them. However each time a developer can’t get what it desires, some legislator writes a invoice that weakens the statute.
An appellate courtroom discovered that UC didn’t meet CEQA’s requirement to think about various websites and noise. The matter is within the California Supreme Courtroom. Wicks’ invoice would preempt the courtroom, undermine CEQA and destroy Individuals’s Park.
Glenn Alex
Berkeley
Rude bicyclists
earn residents’ ire
Re: “Misstatements mar assembly on path” (Web page A6, Aug. 22).
The creator complained that opponents of growing the Lime Ridge Open House to accommodate mountain bikers have “denigrated mountain bikers for years.” Nicely, there’s a compelling purpose for that perspective.
I’ve the nice fortune to stay in a house abutting the open area and have for years noticed the habits of people utilizing these areas. I can assert that lots of the mountain-biker guests to the open area have little respect for the principles of use, of the preservation of this pure useful resource, or of fellow guests to the open area. Many within the biker neighborhood pay no consideration to the necessities of the place they might trip or of security issues.
Opposition to a move path that encourages extra such people to come back from far and extensive to hitch in this sort of habits must be simply comprehensible.
David Baer
Harmony
Give candidates
equal protection
Re: “Don’t give Trump free promoting” (Web page A8, Aug. 20).
Judy Malinowski’s letter to the editor expressed my opinion completely.
I, too, consider that the media performed a big half in Donald Trump’s win in 2016. Now, as Judy stated, it’s occurring once more. For example: when the previous president introduced he was operating in 2024, there was a really massive coloured image of him above the fold of the entrance web page, together with an extended article within the East Bay Instances. President Biden’s announcement was lined with a one-column article, additionally on the entrance web page above the fold, with a small black and white image. Why was there such a discrepancy?
I’m not asking for preferential protection for any candidate, however I want to see equal protection for all candidates, which I didn’t see in 2016 or 2020.
Beckie Abbott
Walnut Creek
Trump notoriety’s
mustn’t defend him
“All I wish to do is that this. I simply wish to discover 11,780 votes.”
That’s what Donald Trump stated to Georgia’s secretary of state when he was pressuring him to overturn the 2020 presidential election leads to Georgia.
That is one piece of the proof that led a grand jury to indict former President Donald Trump and key allies –– together with his attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman and White Home Chief of Employees Mark Meadows –– on 41 prison costs for making an attempt to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.
Trump’s prison conspiracy included 18 co-defendants and 30 unindicted co-conspirators who dedicated fraud to reverse the need of Georgia voters, although Trump already knew he’d misplaced.
There could be no extra severe crime than a conspiracy to overturn the inspiration of our democracy. Fame, fortune and former workplace mustn’t stop somebody from being held accountable.
Nona Fernandez
Oakland
Large Pharma appears
to personal its regulators
Re: “Large Pharma’s playbook hurts those that can’t afford medicine” (Web page A7, Aug. 23).
The author is a doctor, who talks about how Large Pharma’s overpricing of sure medicine has usually resulted in unreasonably excessive prices to people and the federal government.
A few years in the past, I used to be born right into a household headed by a father who was a doctor. I grew up believing that, with out massive spending on analysis and growth of latest medicine, many fewer of them could be produced. Nevertheless, I’ve since discovered that Large Pharma spends as a lot on promoting as R&D, and so they additionally spend huge quantities lobbying members of Congress. The image will get a lot worse the extra element you hunt down; see the guide, “Sickening,” by Dr. John Abramson.
Whereas extra regulation could also be referred to as for, who’s going to do it when Large Pharma seems to personal the potential regulators?
Daniel Mauthe
Livermore
