Public Comment

It seems the whole city is under attack by the likes of Bates and his team of developers. As I walk around town I notice more and more businesses gone like the smog place on Addison I used to use—one day there—next day just a large empty space as well as several other businesses that used to call that area home. Then the corner of Shattuck and Dwight Way—one day a furniture store on the corner—next time I looked half the block demolished. Slow Restaurant on University near Milvia—great food, gone—as well as other shops, service centers and on and on. And I have not even addressed the possible loss of our 10 Landmark Shattuck theaters upon whom we depend for our fix of films that feed our minds, hearts and souls as well as being accessible to all kinds of people like me and others. We are losing what we called Berkeley for the likes of rotten tall expensive structures for the upper classes all at the expense of our commons and our sense of place. Wake up folks—it will all be gone before you know it. Plutocracy in all its ugliness.