Letters to the Editor: The NIMBYs deserved to lose in Berkeley
People’s Park in Berkeley, where the University of California plans to build housing for students and community members.
(Scott Strazzante / San Francisco Chronicle)
To the editor: In 1969 I was among those marching to preserve People’s Park in Berkeley. Contentious times. Over the years the park became something of homeless encampment, complete with a good deal of drug dealing. The area just south of campus has long had lots of students jammed into tiny apartments. We were a raucous lot.
I doubt it is any more peaceful today. It is hard for me to understand how anyone would think that the tranquility of the area would be disturbed by building a dormitory on the site.
Erica Hahn, Monrovia
