Berkeley has been a university town for exactly 150 years. I am 𝙗𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙙 of hearing people complain about students being "noisy" or "taking up parking." <~10% of UC students drive to campus, and no student living within a 15 min walk of campus is likely to drive there
Now we're hearing about why multi-story buildings are bad because they kill birds and somehow make climate change worse. Do people really not understand that greenfield development is 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 worse for birds and our climate? (I've clearly lost my tolerance for ZAB I'd built up)
@ericpanzer I can tell you that Cal students are A LOT quieter now than in the 80s.
@ericpanzer Back in 1982 I lived at Santa Fe & Cornell in northwest Berkeley. Without a bike, walking was the best way to get to campus for young reasonably fit me. Expensive parking, unreliable car, infrequent AC Transit off hours. The house was on the old 43 line too.
@ericpanzer I'm near Virginia Tech (just over 150 years old itself), and there seem to be a lot of the same complaints, so now most of the new student housing is greenfield stuff increasingly far from campus (even though there're tons of super expensive low density SFH right next to campus)