https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18129
EXCERPTS: A judge has ordered UC-Berkeley to freeze its enrollment beginning in the academic year 2022-2023, citing environmental concerns. UC-Berkeley hopes to have the order lifted within the year so the school can proceed with enrollment increases.
A local California judge issued an order which freezes enrollment at the University of California, Berkeley, because future enrollment increases could have an "adverse" impact on the "physical environment."
[...] The judge stated in the order that once UC-Berkeley redoes their supplemental environmental impact report for a new building on campus and demonstrates "full compliance" with the order, the decision may be reversed. Under the California Environmental Quality Act, state and local government entities are required to submit a report studying the environmental impact of their project.
[...] The original lawsuit was filed by Save Berkeley's Neighborhoods, who describe themselves as a group aimed at protecting "Berkeley’s unique quality of life."
A page on Save Berkeley's Neighborhoods' website states that one of their "active campaigns" is informing Berkeley residents about the "failure" of UC-Berkeley to study the environmental impacts of student enrollment increases... (MORE - details)
EXCERPTS: A judge has ordered UC-Berkeley to freeze its enrollment beginning in the academic year 2022-2023, citing environmental concerns. UC-Berkeley hopes to have the order lifted within the year so the school can proceed with enrollment increases.
A local California judge issued an order which freezes enrollment at the University of California, Berkeley, because future enrollment increases could have an "adverse" impact on the "physical environment."
[...] The judge stated in the order that once UC-Berkeley redoes their supplemental environmental impact report for a new building on campus and demonstrates "full compliance" with the order, the decision may be reversed. Under the California Environmental Quality Act, state and local government entities are required to submit a report studying the environmental impact of their project.
[...] The original lawsuit was filed by Save Berkeley's Neighborhoods, who describe themselves as a group aimed at protecting "Berkeley’s unique quality of life."
A page on Save Berkeley's Neighborhoods' website states that one of their "active campaigns" is informing Berkeley residents about the "failure" of UC-Berkeley to study the environmental impacts of student enrollment increases... (MORE - details)