Berkeley/Oakland gentrification-meetings Sat. Oct. 20th

Is the Downtown Area Plan of Berkeley-the area around downtown Shattuck-an attempt to develop office spaces, hotel rooms for corporate business and condos for the well to do at the expense of the lower income of our city who keep getting pushed out due to the rising rents caused by gentrification? Will DAPAC's plan be at the expense of the sense of community inclduing its progressive activist values that Berkeley is known before? Is it a way to disregard Berkeley General Plan's commitment to create 6,200 affordable housing units in Berkeley? How many jobs will be created for local lower-income /houseless indiviudals when the massive amount of construction called for under the plan commences? Will the downtown plan seek to drive the houseless and the struggling working class out of the public commons? Come to the workshop and ask these questions.
The workshop will be held this Saturday October 20th 10am-1pm at the Berkeley High School Library at Allston & Milvia.
Also on the same day this Saturday Oct. 20th from noon to 3pm in west Oakland there will be a discussion on gentrification at the West Oakland Senior Center at 1724 Adeline, near 18th with city councilmember Nancy Nadel and others.