They said it: Making peace with housing on Berkeley’s People’s Park
“We have to live with it forever, so I felt like maybe we should give input on what we like and do not like. Maybe the wolf will pull off her head and it will actually be grandma. That’s not going to happen, but I like to grab onto some optimism.”
— Lisa Teague with the People’s Park Council, a community group that advocates for protecting Berkeley’s iconic park, on working with UC Berkeley and a landscape architecture company to honor the park’s legacy as a hub of political activism as it is developed for student housing.