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Dan Sicular, spokesperson for an unincorporated group of football fans calling themselves “Save Tightwad Hill!”, announced late Monday that attorney Susan Brandt Hawley has filed in California Superior Court in Alameda County on their behalf to require the UC Regents to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act by doing adequate study and mitigation of the proposed UC Berkeley Memorial Stadium expansion. Their petition charges that “substantial new seating approved on the east side of the stadium would restrict views and thereby substantially alter the use of the unique cultural landscape known as Tightwad Hill.” It says that the hill “is located 100 feet above the stadium and provides panoramic views of the football field” and that “generations of football fans since the mid-1920s” have gathered there to watch Cal Bear games.  

This suit is the fourth to be filed against the stadium expansion project and its companion Student Athlete High Performance training center.  

The City of Berkeley, the Panoramic Hill Association and the California Oaks Foundation will be in court with UC on Thursday seeking to delay the start of construction and the destruction of the oak grove on the site of the center.