by Bob Walsh
Regular
readers will know that I wrote a few days ago about a court decision
that would force U C Berkeley to withdraw several thousand acceptance
letters from incoming freshman for this coming fall due to the
university slow-dragging compliance with an environmental review law.
What
happened is that on Monday both houses of the assembly, BY UNANIMOUS
VOTE, passed SB 118, which essentially retroactively changes the law.
The governor signed the bill the same day. The new law states that
student enrollment, or changes in student enrollment, do not in and of
themselves constitute a project subject to the California Environmental
Quality Act. The current law is over 50 years old.
The
organization Save Berkeley's Neighborhoods, a pretty solid NIMBY group,
asserts that students will actually be hurt rather than helped as they
will end up with hundreds of students sleeping in their cars and campers
due to the university not keeping up on student housing.
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