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The 22-year-old sociology major, who plans to attend law school, is enrolled at UC Berkeley from Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has never set foot on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although my body is physically confined, I keep my mind free by learning and educating myself and continuing to grow,” said Javier, who asked to be identified by his middle name on his lawyer’s advice, citing potential educational and legal repercussions, under KQED’s anonymous sources policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Javier, who awaits trial for an alleged violent crime, is expected to become California’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/incarcerated\">incarcerated\u003c/a> young person to graduate from a UC school after transferring from community college. 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He grew up in a Mexican immigrant household in Hayward with nearly a dozen family members, including his mother, siblings and other relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was heavily influenced by the gang culture of his uncles and his neighborhood. By 13, he landed in juvenile hall for assault and armed robbery, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People knew what school I went to and who I involved myself with. So I didn’t really want to go to school,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 15, he said, he and his friends survived a shooting. Shortly after, in ninth grade, he dropped out. He said he felt dismissed by teachers who routinely sent him to the principal’s office for what he described as small infractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 17, Javier returned to juvenile hall. There, older friends from the neighborhood who were also incarcerated encouraged him to finish high school. At first, he was discouraged because he had only about a year’s worth of credits, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, damn…I am pretty much nowhere. So that kind of made me feel ashamed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But surrounded by peers with similar experiences, classes began to feel different, Javier said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That struggle marked Javier’s own childhood. He grew up in a Mexican immigrant household in Hayward with nearly a dozen family members, including his mother, siblings and other relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was heavily influenced by the gang culture of his uncles and his neighborhood. By 13, he landed in juvenile hall for assault and armed robbery, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People knew what school I went to and who I involved myself with. So I didn’t really want to go to school,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 15, he said, he and his friends survived a shooting. Shortly after, in ninth grade, he dropped out. He said he felt dismissed by teachers who routinely sent him to the principal’s office for what he described as small infractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 17, Javier returned to juvenile hall. There, older friends from the neighborhood who were also incarcerated encouraged him to finish high school. 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He began to feel a sense of belonging and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center in San Leandro on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I went from being quiet to being the main person answering all the questions on the whiteboard, being the first one to raise his hand,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Javier graduated from high school and enrolled in online classes at Laney College in Oakland, with support from Incarceration to College. 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Some students also went to Javier’s facility to attend class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057234\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBIncarcerated-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shani Shay (right), director of Incarceration to College, works with Laney College student Bryan Minero at the program’s offices on the UC Berkeley campus on Sept. 9, 2025. The initiative supports system-impacted youth in accessing higher education. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It had a profound impact on UC Berkeley students,” Robinson said. At first, they had questions, but ultimately, they fully supported the arrangement. It also buoyed Jaiver, who said he sometimes faced pushback from juvenile hall staff questioning whether he was really receiving a UC Berkeley education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Javier’s trajectory is uncommon, especially given the disparity in college achievement for formerly incarcerated adults. A 2018 study by the Prison Policy Initiative found 4% of formerly incarcerated people held a college degree, compared to 29% of the U.S. population. 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"content": "\u003cp>An animal rights advocate accused of stealing four chickens from a Petaluma poultry farm in 2023 will stand trial beginning Monday in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-county\">Sonoma County\u003c/a>, facing nearly five years in prison if convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a criminal complaint filed by the Sonoma County District Attorney’s office, Zoe Rosenberg, an organizer for the Berkeley-based advocacy group Direct Action Everywhere, visited Petaluma Poultry without authorization four times. During those visits, prosecutors say, she attached GPS devices to 12 different farm delivery vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 13, 2023, Rosenberg allegedly entered the farm without permission, took chickens off of a trailer and removed them from the property, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “rescue,” as Rosenberg called it, was caught on video by one of her Direct Action Everywhere colleagues and shared with KQED. The footage shows Rosenberg at night, dressed in protective gear, examining crates of chickens on a truck bed before placing four birds carefully into a red bucket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’d been loaded in there just like cargo,” she said. “They could barely stand. They could barely turn around. 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She was taken into custody and later released on bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At her release hearing, prosecutors argued she posed a threat to the public, and Rosenberg was ordered to wear a GPS ankle monitor, which she has worn since. 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"content": "\u003cp>Amid a generationally divided debate, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a> City Council on Thursday unanimously voted to overturn a more-than-century-old housing policy, allowing small apartment buildings in most of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045685/berkeley-considers-middle-housing-plan-that-could-reshape-neighborhoods\">Middle Housing ordinance\u003c/a> will permit three-story buildings with up to eight units on a typical 5,000-square-foot lot, not including accessory dwelling units. The actual number will vary on lot size. The changes will apply citywide, except in Berkeley’s hills neighborhoods, which were excluded while the city studies evacuation routes in the high fire-risk zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal must come back to the council for a second reading in July and is expected to be implemented in November. It comes four years after former Councilmember Lori Droste introduced a resolution to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/2021-02-23%20Item%2029%20Resolution%20to%20End%20Exclusionary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">end exclusionary zoning\u003c/a> in the city that came in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996229/berkeley-first-city-to-sanctify-single-family-zoning-considers-historic-reversal-allowing-small-apartments\">wake of George Floyd’s murder\u003c/a> and a nationwide \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910087/remembering-george-floyd-and-the-racial-reckoning-he-sparked\">racial reckoning\u003c/a> that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, who has championed the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-06-26%20Special%20Item%2001%20Zoning%20Ordinance%20and%20General%20Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current proposal\u003c/a>, said the changes would allow more opportunities for young people, families and middle-income residents to live in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are actually trying to create more starter-home opportunities for middle-class workers, for people of color, for people who have historically not had an opportunity to own a home and build multi-generational wealth,” Kesarwani said. “That is actually at the root of what I believe we are striving for with this entire ordinance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unanimous vote, just before midnight, followed a nearly six-hour meeting punctuated by a sometimes raucous crowd. More than 100 people spoke during public comment, with opinions split roughly 60–40 in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046296\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-33-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-33-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-33-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-33-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supporters included students, renters, parents with small children in tow and millennials, who advocated for more diverse housing options to meet the needs of young people and families trying to gain or keep a toehold in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everyone wants to or can live in a single-family home,” said Nina Ichikawa, who identified herself as a third-generation Cal grad. “By just sticking to one type of housing, we’re limiting what Berkeley has to offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They confronted a group composed largely of homeowners, who had bought into Berkeley decades ago and were worried the proposal would have the opposite of its intended effect, driving out more working families and changing the city beyond recognition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[In] 1973, Berkeley citizens passed the neighborhood preservation ordinance,” said resident Clifford Fred. “Now, 52 years later, you’re poised to pass the neighborhood destruction ordinance, I’m afraid to say.”[aside postID=news_12045685 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-03-BL-KQED.jpg']But hills resident Andrea Horbinski said the city shouldn’t be frozen in amber and should be allowed to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of people who want to keep it as a necropolis for current homeowners, people who bought in the ’60s and ’70s,” Horbinski said. “Is it a tomb or is it a living community? A living community is what we want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates also pointed to Berkeley’s role in \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/rootsraceplace\">pioneering exclusionary zoning\u003c/a> as a driver of manufactured housing scarcity and rising costs. In 1916, the city became the first in the country \u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c044977650&seq=9&q1=dance\">to adopt single-family zoning\u003c/a>, which was designed to protect property values from a perceived “\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">invasion\u003c/a>” of lower-cost housing — and \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26b8d8zh\">the people who lived there\u003c/a> — that would devalue homeowners’ investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reforming exclusionary zoning, said Councilmember Ben Bartlett, a co-author of the Middle Housing proposal, is “the equity issue of our time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot keep deluding ourselves that we don’t have a scarcity problem,” Bartlett said. “You have to realize land is the foundation of wealth. And yet it remains out of reach due to the same scarcity that we prescribed, that we invented in our zoning code here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of May, the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/data/\">typical\u003c/a>” Berkeley home sold for $1.4 million, according to Zillow, up more than 270% from a quarter-century ago. As home prices have risen, racial segregation in housing \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/bay-segregation-map\">has persisted\u003c/a>. In Berkeley, the portion of Black residents has dropped from \u003ca href=\"https://census.bayareametro.gov/historical-data/1970/berkeley\">24% in 1970\u003c/a> to around \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/berkeleycitycalifornia/PST045223\">7% last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045599\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment building in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many opponents, however, refuted the idea that Middle Housing would lead to greater diversity and criticized the lack of any dedicated, affordable housing in the proposal — though projects would be subject to the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-02-25%20Item%2014%20Inclusionary%20Housing%20Ordinance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affordable housing impact fees\u003c/a> that apply to all residential developments over 5,000 square feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no affordability in your plan. There’s no Section 8 support in your plan. There’s no guarantee of rent control in your plans, although many of these lots have houses on them,” said Negeene Mosaed, chair of the Berkeley Tenant Union. “You are not protecting the community. You are destroying it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mosaed pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://rentboard.berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-05/Anti-Eviction%20Mapping%20Project_UpzoningReport_REV_FINAL_03-22-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 study\u003c/a> by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project that found allowing more development could lead to “speculation, increased land values, and displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By expanding the buildable potential of properties in Berkeley, resident Janis Ching said it would incentivize developers to outbid would-be homeowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house for sale in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This ordinance is going to commodify our land,” she said. “It’s going to make it difficult for homebuyers to compete with developers who want to build different types of housing, and also, it’s going to put pressure on people to sell and leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl Davila, a former city council member, called the proposal and its promises for greater equity a “facade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So this is all a fake,” she said. “People are going to get displaced and what’s going to be left? A white Berkeley or a Berkeley of billionaires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other opponents pointed to the loss of open space, trees and other natural habitats for urban animals, along with concerns that three-story buildings would shade solar panels on single-story rooftops.[aside postID=news_12045703 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BerkeleyMiddleHousing-18-BL_qed.jpg']The ordinance allows buildings to cover 60% of the lot in most districts. It also requires the building height to step down to 22 feet in the rear of the property, partly, staff said, to address concerns about loss of light on neighbors’ properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Councilmember Mark Humbert acknowledged some tradeoffs would have to be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is a bigger hit to our quality of life: losing a few hours of direct sunlight in the winter or losing our children to another state when they can’t afford a home in California?” he asked. “What really makes life in Berkeley less pleasant: a few more cars parked on the streets — hopefully more bicycles in foyers — or seeing more and more human beings forced to sleep on our streets?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even Duncan McDuffie, a real estate developer and \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26b8d8zh\">key architect of Berkeley’s original plan\u003c/a>, recognized that eventually, the zoning would need to change to reflect the city’s changing needs. At an annual dinner in the banquet room of the Hotel Shattuck \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">on Jan. 21, 1916\u003c/a>, he said city planning “must be rigid enough to direct the growth of the community and elastic enough to meet changing conditions. It should be a living thing — never fully completed but always being realized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council directed staff to develop objective design standards and to return with a report two years after adoption or after 25 applications for Middle Housing projects have been filed, whichever comes first. The report is expected to assess the ordinance’s effectiveness and impact on equity, among other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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In Berkeley, the portion of Black residents has dropped from \u003ca href=\"https://census.bayareametro.gov/historical-data/1970/berkeley\">24% in 1970\u003c/a> to around \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/berkeleycitycalifornia/PST045223\">7% last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045599\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment building in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many opponents, however, refuted the idea that Middle Housing would lead to greater diversity and criticized the lack of any dedicated, affordable housing in the proposal — though projects would be subject to the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-02-25%20Item%2014%20Inclusionary%20Housing%20Ordinance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affordable housing impact fees\u003c/a> that apply to all residential developments over 5,000 square feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no affordability in your plan. 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"content": "\u003cp>Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley has long been seen as a launchpad for actors and artists. In 2018 the theater commissioned and premiered the Tony-Award winning play “Eureka Day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the theater is suspending production, joining a growing list of Bay Area theaters on the brink of closure in what the San Francisco Chronicle theater critic Lily Janiak describes as the “industry’s free fall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6141426632&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:06] Lily, you’re the Chronicle’s theater critic. What’s the range of theater in the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:01:13] Oh my gosh. I could see a show at Counterpulse that ends with two performers lying on the floor making flatulent noises and have that make total sense and be a thing of great beauty. I could see a touring musical about Neil Diamond. I could see as much summer outdoor Shakespeare as I want. I could see brand new world premieres. Truly, if I went out every single night of the week, I would not be able to see everything the Bay Area does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:05] You mentioned before we started recording that when you moved to the Bay Area, one of the first places you watched a show at was the Aurora Theater in Berkeley, is that right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:02:16] I’ve been going to the Aurora since 2009, and the first show I remember there is this piece called Jack Goes Boating. And I don’t remember a ton about the show, but I do remember something that stayed true about the Aurora ever since then, which is that I got to see amazing actors up incredibly close. And so it’s the kind of experience where you have to like hold your breath and keep still a little bit because you feel their energy and that image has stayed with me and it’s been true of pretty much every show I’ve seen at the Aurora since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:00] Yeah, tell me a little bit more about the history of the Aurora Theater Company for folks who maybe don’t know. How long has it been around?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:03:08] It’s been around since ’93, so more than 30 years. And for the bulk of that time, it’s been in this space that’s steps from Berkeley BART. It is this extremely special venue. They call it a three-quarter thrust, but if you’re not a theater person, picture a lizard tongue, very, very long and thin, and just four rows of audience members surrounding that lizard tongue. There’s no bad seat in the house. No matter where you are, the action is a few feet away from you and your fellow audience member’s faces. So it is not like a hide in the dark kind of space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:05] Is that pretty unique, you’d say, for a theater setup?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:04:08] In the Bay Area? Yes. Especially of the intimate size. It’s just 150 seats. And for the consistent quality of actors you’ll see there. These are the top names in Bay Area theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:04:28] The Aurora Theater Company has been around for 33 years and I think it is the best theater in the Bay Area. I’ve always really respected the work here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:04:35] Josh Costello is the Artistic Director of the Aurora Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:04:39] This is a place that a lot of Bay Area actors and directors and designers really think of as their home. The people on stage are part of the same community as the people in the audience. And so we’re telling stories that are personally meaningful to us because those same stories are personally meaningful to the people in the audiences as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:04:59] Aurora is firmly a mid-size company. They have historically, not that any theater artist’s career has necessarily been linear, but they have been a ladder from, here I am making theater with my college buddies on $1,000, to something with more prominence and more reach. It is that mid-sized theater company and it’s not just the aurora that I, as an observer, am especially worried about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:39] It sounds like Aurora is a pretty important piece of the Bay Area theater landscape, but now it announced it’s suspending production for the next calendar year. I mean, what happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:05:51] Their specific situation is they have this budget deficit of $500,000 and their subscriber base, still five years after the pandemic, is half of what it was before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:06:07] Every year we thought this is the year that the audience is going to start to come back and we can’t say that anymore, it’s just not happening for us or for anybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:06:15] Their situation is not unique. I’ve covered the closures, suspensions, fundraising campaigns. I have a whole list of theaters here. CalShakes, Cutting Ball, Bay Area Children’s Theater, Piano Fight, Theater First. It feels like, in my worst moments as a lover of this art form, it just feels like they’re dropping like flies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:44] I feel like I wanna chalk this up to COVID and the lack of in-person events, but why is this happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:06:53] The causes are really complex. You know, I get emails from readers say about why they’ve stopped coming to not just Aurora, but any theater that they might have attended before the pandemic. And I hear so many different reasons. They tell me they’re still very COVID conscious. And then there are folks who complain about programming choices. So none of the shows in this lineup grabbed me. I hear that people are just out of the habit of going to shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:07:30] All the information in the world in our pockets all the time. And we have all these algorithms that are designed to hold our attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:07:39] Josh has the perspective that one reason is that phones are ruining it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] And the idea of putting the phone away for a couple of hours, right, and sitting in a theater surrounded by other people is, seems like a bigger ask than it used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:07:57] Here in the Bay Area, we have the astronomical cost of living, which, on top of everything else, makes it so hard when you’re that theater leader, that theater artist, to decide to keep going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:08:13] Everything has gotten more expensive. Materials for building the sets are more expensive, labor is more expensive…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:08:20] So Josh talked about doing this emergency fundraising campaign. But you can’t have an emergency every single year, he said. That’s not a business plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:08:32] For us to continue producing plays the same way we have been doing, we would need our annual income to increase by half a million dollars a year. That is not that much money in the Bay Area in the grand scheme of things. There are people who could write us a million dollar check every year and that would solve all of our problems. You know, we don’t have those donors in our audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] If you’re someone like Josh Costello at Aurora and his staff who I believe have been keeping that theater afloat with just four full-time people. And it’s like, if you’re working 100 hours a week and you have this operating deficit and you can’t see a financial future for yourself, I mean, how long do you keep going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:09:26] You know, I mean, time at the clock is ticking. And that’s the reality, that’s where we’re at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:58] What does this mean for Aurora, that it’s suspending its production for the next calendar year? Like, is this it for productions at Aurora Theater?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:10:10] It could be it. They’re about to have Marga Gomez in The Search for the Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe in July. And that could well be the last in-person Aurora production ever in that space, that wonderful, wonderful space in downtown Berkeley. It’s possible that Aurora will come up with some other way to exist. And I know Josh has put forward a few different possibilities. Maybe they do a lot of co-productions with other theaters. Maybe they give up their space and move into a smaller space. But it would be so awful to lose them entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:58] What do you think it would take to turn this around, not just for Aurora, but the broader landscape of theater in the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:11:09] So we, in the nonprofit theater world, rely on a model that is really not working for anybody. It wasn’t working before the pandemic. The warning signs were there. Nonprofit theater relies on subscribers and grants to invest in a season before it opens. Ticket sales alone typically supply 50% of an organization’s budget. And there’s a lot of variance in there, but you’re never going to support a theater with ticket sales alone. And so getting someone to decide they want tickets to all six of your shows more than a year in advance, and making up the rest of the difference with increasingly dwindling government and foundation support. That just isn’t working anymore. It’s not penciling. And that’s why Josh thought it was irresponsible to continue to program another season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:12:18] We didn’t want the chaos of canceling shows at the last minute, of taking employment away from actors, having to refund subscribers’ tickets. We wanted to really just close out with the same kind of professionalism and care that have always defined this organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:12:33] We don’t have another idea of what to do instead as an industry. Nobody’s figured it out. You could look to commercial theater, but commercial theater is much more risk averse. You know, if all you cared about was ticket sales, I have a quote from Melissa Hillman in my story here. She works at the nonprofit Theater Bay Area. She said, all you would have are productions of Annie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:02] Right, like that’s what we’re losing when we lose a theater like Aurora is that sort of, I think you mentioned earlier, a sort of jumping off point to something like a Tony Award. I mean, what would it mean if we lost Aurora Theater?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:13:20] If we lost Aurora Theater, the worst case scenario, forgive me for, I don’t know, being such a doomsayer here, but Bay Area Theater would start to spiral. And we’re already seeing this. It’s not one single company closing that’s going to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. But artists will slowly start to not see the Bay Area as a place where they can make a career. And so we might end up with a metropolitan area, not where there’s no theater, but where there are maybe a couple big organizations and a few small ones, but not enough to sustain a whole vibrant scene. This is a hard truth to reckon with and I don’t think I’ve accepted it yet, but did we have more theater than the Bay Area could actually support before the pandemic, and now are we just being forced to, I hate this word, but right size? I hate asking that question, but as a journalist, I have to. It just kills me, man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:40] I mean, I’ve been to a couple of theater shows at Piano Fight, you mentioned that earlier. And I’m thinking about the kind of stories that I’ve seen told there that I can’t imagine seeing anywhere else now that it’s gone. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:06] Lily, you’re the Chronicle’s theater critic. What’s the range of theater in the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:01:13] Oh my gosh. I could see a show at Counterpulse that ends with two performers lying on the floor making flatulent noises and have that make total sense and be a thing of great beauty. I could see a touring musical about Neil Diamond. I could see as much summer outdoor Shakespeare as I want. I could see brand new world premieres. Truly, if I went out every single night of the week, I would not be able to see everything the Bay Area does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:05] You mentioned before we started recording that when you moved to the Bay Area, one of the first places you watched a show at was the Aurora Theater in Berkeley, is that right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:02:16] I’ve been going to the Aurora since 2009, and the first show I remember there is this piece called Jack Goes Boating. And I don’t remember a ton about the show, but I do remember something that stayed true about the Aurora ever since then, which is that I got to see amazing actors up incredibly close. And so it’s the kind of experience where you have to like hold your breath and keep still a little bit because you feel their energy and that image has stayed with me and it’s been true of pretty much every show I’ve seen at the Aurora since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:00] Yeah, tell me a little bit more about the history of the Aurora Theater Company for folks who maybe don’t know. How long has it been around?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:03:08] It’s been around since ’93, so more than 30 years. And for the bulk of that time, it’s been in this space that’s steps from Berkeley BART. It is this extremely special venue. They call it a three-quarter thrust, but if you’re not a theater person, picture a lizard tongue, very, very long and thin, and just four rows of audience members surrounding that lizard tongue. There’s no bad seat in the house. No matter where you are, the action is a few feet away from you and your fellow audience member’s faces. So it is not like a hide in the dark kind of space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:05] Is that pretty unique, you’d say, for a theater setup?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:04:08] In the Bay Area? Yes. Especially of the intimate size. It’s just 150 seats. And for the consistent quality of actors you’ll see there. These are the top names in Bay Area theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:04:28] The Aurora Theater Company has been around for 33 years and I think it is the best theater in the Bay Area. I’ve always really respected the work here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:04:35] Josh Costello is the Artistic Director of the Aurora Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:04:39] This is a place that a lot of Bay Area actors and directors and designers really think of as their home. The people on stage are part of the same community as the people in the audience. And so we’re telling stories that are personally meaningful to us because those same stories are personally meaningful to the people in the audiences as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:04:59] Aurora is firmly a mid-size company. They have historically, not that any theater artist’s career has necessarily been linear, but they have been a ladder from, here I am making theater with my college buddies on $1,000, to something with more prominence and more reach. It is that mid-sized theater company and it’s not just the aurora that I, as an observer, am especially worried about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:39] It sounds like Aurora is a pretty important piece of the Bay Area theater landscape, but now it announced it’s suspending production for the next calendar year. I mean, what happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:05:51] Their specific situation is they have this budget deficit of $500,000 and their subscriber base, still five years after the pandemic, is half of what it was before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:06:07] Every year we thought this is the year that the audience is going to start to come back and we can’t say that anymore, it’s just not happening for us or for anybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:06:15] Their situation is not unique. I’ve covered the closures, suspensions, fundraising campaigns. I have a whole list of theaters here. CalShakes, Cutting Ball, Bay Area Children’s Theater, Piano Fight, Theater First. It feels like, in my worst moments as a lover of this art form, it just feels like they’re dropping like flies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:44] I feel like I wanna chalk this up to COVID and the lack of in-person events, but why is this happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:06:53] The causes are really complex. You know, I get emails from readers say about why they’ve stopped coming to not just Aurora, but any theater that they might have attended before the pandemic. And I hear so many different reasons. They tell me they’re still very COVID conscious. And then there are folks who complain about programming choices. So none of the shows in this lineup grabbed me. I hear that people are just out of the habit of going to shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:07:30] All the information in the world in our pockets all the time. And we have all these algorithms that are designed to hold our attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:07:39] Josh has the perspective that one reason is that phones are ruining it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] And the idea of putting the phone away for a couple of hours, right, and sitting in a theater surrounded by other people is, seems like a bigger ask than it used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:07:57] Here in the Bay Area, we have the astronomical cost of living, which, on top of everything else, makes it so hard when you’re that theater leader, that theater artist, to decide to keep going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:08:13] Everything has gotten more expensive. Materials for building the sets are more expensive, labor is more expensive…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:08:20] So Josh talked about doing this emergency fundraising campaign. But you can’t have an emergency every single year, he said. That’s not a business plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:08:32] For us to continue producing plays the same way we have been doing, we would need our annual income to increase by half a million dollars a year. That is not that much money in the Bay Area in the grand scheme of things. There are people who could write us a million dollar check every year and that would solve all of our problems. You know, we don’t have those donors in our audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] If you’re someone like Josh Costello at Aurora and his staff who I believe have been keeping that theater afloat with just four full-time people. And it’s like, if you’re working 100 hours a week and you have this operating deficit and you can’t see a financial future for yourself, I mean, how long do you keep going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:09:26] You know, I mean, time at the clock is ticking. And that’s the reality, that’s where we’re at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:58] What does this mean for Aurora, that it’s suspending its production for the next calendar year? Like, is this it for productions at Aurora Theater?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:10:10] It could be it. They’re about to have Marga Gomez in The Search for the Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe in July. And that could well be the last in-person Aurora production ever in that space, that wonderful, wonderful space in downtown Berkeley. It’s possible that Aurora will come up with some other way to exist. And I know Josh has put forward a few different possibilities. Maybe they do a lot of co-productions with other theaters. Maybe they give up their space and move into a smaller space. But it would be so awful to lose them entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:58] What do you think it would take to turn this around, not just for Aurora, but the broader landscape of theater in the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:11:09] So we, in the nonprofit theater world, rely on a model that is really not working for anybody. It wasn’t working before the pandemic. The warning signs were there. Nonprofit theater relies on subscribers and grants to invest in a season before it opens. Ticket sales alone typically supply 50% of an organization’s budget. And there’s a lot of variance in there, but you’re never going to support a theater with ticket sales alone. And so getting someone to decide they want tickets to all six of your shows more than a year in advance, and making up the rest of the difference with increasingly dwindling government and foundation support. That just isn’t working anymore. It’s not penciling. And that’s why Josh thought it was irresponsible to continue to program another season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Costello \u003c/strong>[00:12:18] We didn’t want the chaos of canceling shows at the last minute, of taking employment away from actors, having to refund subscribers’ tickets. We wanted to really just close out with the same kind of professionalism and care that have always defined this organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:12:33] We don’t have another idea of what to do instead as an industry. Nobody’s figured it out. You could look to commercial theater, but commercial theater is much more risk averse. You know, if all you cared about was ticket sales, I have a quote from Melissa Hillman in my story here. She works at the nonprofit Theater Bay Area. She said, all you would have are productions of Annie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:02] Right, like that’s what we’re losing when we lose a theater like Aurora is that sort of, I think you mentioned earlier, a sort of jumping off point to something like a Tony Award. I mean, what would it mean if we lost Aurora Theater?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lily Janiak \u003c/strong>[00:13:20] If we lost Aurora Theater, the worst case scenario, forgive me for, I don’t know, being such a doomsayer here, but Bay Area Theater would start to spiral. And we’re already seeing this. It’s not one single company closing that’s going to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. But artists will slowly start to not see the Bay Area as a place where they can make a career. And so we might end up with a metropolitan area, not where there’s no theater, but where there are maybe a couple big organizations and a few small ones, but not enough to sustain a whole vibrant scene. This is a hard truth to reckon with and I don’t think I’ve accepted it yet, but did we have more theater than the Bay Area could actually support before the pandemic, and now are we just being forced to, I hate this word, but right size? I hate asking that question, but as a journalist, I have to. It just kills me, man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:40] I mean, I’ve been to a couple of theater shows at Piano Fight, you mentioned that earlier. And I’m thinking about the kind of stories that I’ve seen told there that I can’t imagine seeing anywhere else now that it’s gone. And if this, I guess, scenario plays out, it’s like, where will we see those unique stories?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:15 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley postponed its recent ban on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995878/ai-raising-the-rent-san-francisco-could-be-the-first-city-to-ban-the-practice\">rent-setting algorithms\u003c/a>, several months after a leading property management software company \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/04/03/realpage-sues-berkeley-over-impending-ban-on-rent-pricing-algorithms\">sued \u003c/a>the city in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to push back the ban — originally intended to go into effect this spring — in an effort to avoid a costly legal battle with RealPage, the Texas-based company that filed suit in April, arguing the ban violates its First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deferral, to March 2026, follows \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-03-11%20Item%2018%20Adopt%20an%20Ordinance%20to%20Prohibit.pdf\">a warning from\u003c/a> City Attorney Farimah Brown that the pending litigation poses “significant costs for the City,” which already faces \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/04/24/berkeley-budget-deficit-spending-cut-hiring-freeze\">a $27 million budget deficit\u003c/a>. RealPage has tentatively agreed to suspend its lawsuit if the city repeals the ban or delays enforcement of it, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The postponement action is intended to give the Council time to facilitate a resolution of the RealPage litigation and to determine a path forward for the ordinance without the time pressure imposed by litigation deadlines,” Brown told KQED in an email. “Council will likely be debating a range of possible next steps in the months to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance, which the council overwhelmingly approved in March, would bar landlords from using the algorithmic software sold by companies like RealPage that offer pricing and occupancy recommendations based on proprietary rental data. Tenants’ advocates argue the tools allow landlords to collude on pricing decisions, driving up rents and vacancy rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These recommendations allow landlords to manipulate the market and the practice amounts to illegal price-fixing,” the city’s Housing Advisory Commission, which sponsored the ordinance, wrote in its \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-03-11%20Item%2018%20Adopt%20an%20Ordinance%20to%20Prohibit.pdf\">March report\u003c/a> to the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-45-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-45-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, 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increases, increased rates of eviction, and artificial housing scarcity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 60% of Berkeley’s residents are renters, over half of whom are considered lower income and pay a significant portion of their income on rent, according to the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The use of these algorithmic devices is widespread in markets throughout the country and has helped fuel the national housing affordability crisis,” the commission wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley is the first city to be sued by RealPage over such a prohibition, even though similar bans have recently been adopted in a growing number of cities across the country, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995878/ai-raising-the-rent-san-francisco-could-be-the-first-city-to-ban-the-practice\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, which led the charge last year, followed by \u003ca href=\"https://stateline.org/2025/03/28/cities-lead-bans-on-algorithmic-rent-hikes-as-states-lag-behind/\">Philadelphia, Minneapolis\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/san-diego-bans-algorithmic-rent-price-fixing/3825140/\">San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RealPage did not respond to KQED’s questions about the litigation, and specifically why it sued Berkeley and not other larger, more well-resourced cities.[aside postID=news_11995878 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/008_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1020x680.jpg']In its lawsuit, the company contends that Berkeley’s ban is based on “misinformation” and illegally prevents the company from communicating data-driven pricing recommendations to its clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its website, it argues that the “misguided” ordinance could ultimately have a “detrimental” impact on housing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RealPage’s software is simply intended “to optimize revenue — not to maximize rents,” the company said. “It makes rental price recommendations in all directions: higher, lower, 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:15 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley postponed its recent ban on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995878/ai-raising-the-rent-san-francisco-could-be-the-first-city-to-ban-the-practice\">rent-setting algorithms\u003c/a>, several months after a leading property management software company \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/04/03/realpage-sues-berkeley-over-impending-ban-on-rent-pricing-algorithms\">sued \u003c/a>the city in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to push back the ban — originally intended to go into effect this spring — in an effort to avoid a costly legal battle with RealPage, the Texas-based company that filed suit in April, arguing the ban violates its First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deferral, to March 2026, follows \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-03-11%20Item%2018%20Adopt%20an%20Ordinance%20to%20Prohibit.pdf\">a warning from\u003c/a> City Attorney Farimah Brown that the pending litigation poses “significant costs for the City,” which already faces \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/04/24/berkeley-budget-deficit-spending-cut-hiring-freeze\">a $27 million budget deficit\u003c/a>. RealPage has tentatively agreed to suspend its lawsuit if the city repeals the ban or delays enforcement of it, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The postponement action is intended to give the Council time to facilitate a resolution of the RealPage litigation and to determine a path forward for the ordinance without the time pressure imposed by litigation deadlines,” Brown told KQED in an email. “Council will likely be debating a range of possible next steps in the months to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance, which the council overwhelmingly approved in March, would bar landlords from using the algorithmic software sold by companies like RealPage that offer pricing and occupancy recommendations based on proprietary rental data. Tenants’ advocates argue the tools allow landlords to collude on pricing decisions, driving up rents and vacancy rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These recommendations allow landlords to manipulate the market and the practice amounts to illegal price-fixing,” the city’s Housing Advisory Commission, which sponsored the ordinance, wrote in its \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-03-11%20Item%2018%20Adopt%20an%20Ordinance%20to%20Prohibit.pdf\">March report\u003c/a> to the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-45-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-45-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-45-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-45-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-45-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-45-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-45-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Single-family homes line Claremont Boulevard in the Claremont neighborhood of Berkeley on July 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The use of algorithmic devices in setting rents and occupancy levels contributes to double-digit rent increases, increased rates of eviction, and artificial housing scarcity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 60% of Berkeley’s residents are renters, over half of whom are considered lower income and pay a significant portion of their income on rent, according to the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The use of these algorithmic devices is widespread in markets throughout the country and has helped fuel the national housing affordability crisis,” the commission wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley is the first city to be sued by RealPage over such a prohibition, even though similar bans have recently been adopted in a growing number of cities across the country, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995878/ai-raising-the-rent-san-francisco-could-be-the-first-city-to-ban-the-practice\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, which led the charge last year, followed by \u003ca href=\"https://stateline.org/2025/03/28/cities-lead-bans-on-algorithmic-rent-hikes-as-states-lag-behind/\">Philadelphia, Minneapolis\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/san-diego-bans-algorithmic-rent-price-fixing/3825140/\">San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RealPage did not respond to KQED’s questions about the litigation, and specifically why it sued Berkeley and not other larger, more well-resourced cities.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In its lawsuit, the company contends that Berkeley’s ban is based on “misinformation” and illegally prevents the company from communicating data-driven pricing recommendations to its clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its website, it argues that the “misguided” ordinance could ultimately have a “detrimental” impact on housing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RealPage’s software is simply intended “to optimize revenue — not to maximize rents,” the company said. “It makes rental price recommendations in all directions: higher, lower, or at the current rent price.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 30 class-action lawsuits have been filed in recent years against RealPage and landlords who use the software, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/realpage-v-berkeley-northern-district-california-free-speech-landlords.pdf\">2022 suit\u003c/a> accusing nearly 50 trade associations — including the East Bay Rental Housing Association and the Berkeley Property Owners Association — of serving as “conduits of the cartel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six major real estate firms named in lawsuits over the software own over 1,300 apartments in Berkeley, the city’s housing commission reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Biden administration’s Justice Department — joined by California and seven other states — \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-realpage-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millions-american-renters\">sued the company\u003c/a> “for its unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords in apartment pricing,” accusing it of scheming to “monopolize the market.” The suit is moving forward under the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By feeding sensitive data into a sophisticated algorithm powered by artificial intelligence, RealPage has found a modern way to violate a century-old law through systematic coordination of rental housing prices — undermining competition and fairness for consumers in the process,” former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement last August announcing the suit. “Training a machine to break the law is still breaking the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated June 30\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summer in the Bay Area is here. And if you’re itching to explore our state, and you have a library card, you can check out a free pass to over 200 state parks around California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30806\">California State Library Parks Pass program, \u003c/a>each of the state’s libraries — of which there are over 1,180 — are offering cardholders a limited number of passes to most state parks, \u003ca href=\"#validstateparks\">including many state parks around the Bay Area.\u003c/a> Since the program was launched in 2022, over a quarter of a million passes have been checked out statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a library cardholder, each pass gives you free day-entry to a California state park near you for one passenger vehicle (with up to nine people in it) — or one highway-licensed motorcycle. And depending on how your local library is handling the program, you’ll be able to keep and use that pass for a certain amount of time before having to return it.[aside postID='science_1983522,news_11953853,news_11953794' label='More Outdoor Guides']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re hoping to take advantage of this program soon, there’s good news: After the state legislature eliminated $6.75 million in funding for the pass program, which would have shuttered it on Dec. 31, it’s now been announced that this money has been restored to the state budget. Now, the pass program will continue at least through 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to figures from the California State Library, there have been over 284,000 pass checkouts since the program launched in April 2022 through March 2025 — with 134,784 of those passes checked out since July 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/712/files/fact%20sheet%20parks%20150th%20anniversary%20final.pdf\">California’s state park system is the largest in the nation (PDF)\u003c/a>, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/Find-a-Park\">a large number of parks accessible within the Bay Area\u003c/a> itself. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/50949/suffering-from-nature-deficit-disorder-try-forest-bathing\">getting into nature has documented health benefits\u003c/a> — and the state says \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1078\">this program is about helping more Californians explore the outdoors\u003c/a>, and reducing financial barriers to entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to find out how to get free entry to California’s state parks — and which other \u003ca href=\"#californiastateparkpass\">free or low-cost passes to state parks\u003c/a> are available.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which state parks will accept the California State Library Parks Pass?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The pass is valid for use any day of the week, including holidays (but only if space in the park is available). Still, it’s important to note that not every state park in California will accept the California State Library Parks Pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910594\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910594\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55018_GettyImages-148204289-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Soaring California redwoods photographed from below\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55018_GettyImages-148204289-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55018_GettyImages-148204289-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55018_GettyImages-148204289-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55018_GettyImages-148204289-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55018_GettyImages-148204289-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old-growth redwood trees in Armstrong Woods State Natural Reserve in Guerneville. \u003ccite>(George Rose/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else would you like to read a guide to?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Parks and Recreation say the pass won’t be accepted “at units operated by federal and local government, private agencies or concessionaires.” In the Bay Area, for example, Angel Island, Pacifica State Beach and San Bruno Mountain State Park won’t accept a California State Library Parks Pass for free entry.[aside postID=mindshift_50949 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/04/gettyimages-937327264-0ffed8630d3555e1c7389d3af280fffec4bcf9ef-1180x885.jpg']Still, there are a lot of state parks in the Bay Area where you \u003cem>can\u003c/em> use the pass. These include \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=471\">Mount Tamalpais State Park\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=531\">Half Moon Bay State Beach\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=517\">Mount Diablo State Park\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=538\">Castle Rock State Park\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=533\">Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=540\">Big Basin Redwoods State Park\u003c/a> — the oldest state park in California, founded in 1902. Jump to a list of the \u003ca href=\"#validstateparks\">state parks around the Bay Area that will accept the California State Library Parks Pass.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take a look at:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The full list of \u003ca href=\"#validstateparks\">California state parks that offer free entry with a California State Library Parks Pass\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30813\"> state parks that \u003cem>won’t\u003c/em> accept a California State Library Parks Pass\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23474\">some of California’s most notable state parks\u003c/a>, if you’re hoping to use the pass to travel further afield.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30812\">FAQ about the California State Library Parks Pass program\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How can I check out a California State Library Parks Pass from my local library?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Each library may have different preferences for how you check out a pass, but your best bet is almost certainly by visiting in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Different public libraries have received different numbers of passes, with the minimum being three passes per library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#librarycard\">How to get a library card (if you don’t have one yet).\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you have a library card with a public library system that has multiple locations — like in San Francisco or Oakland, for example — the California State Library Parks Passes most likely will be spread out between these locations. Contact your local branch ahead of time to confirm the location of the pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your library gets to decide how many days you can keep a pass, so make sure you know that return date when you check out a pass.[aside postID='news_11953792,news_11953167,news_11943906' label='More Guides Like This']Your library may also allow you to place a hold on a pass, just like you would a book — this is, for example, what the San Francisco Public Library allows for cardholders. You may be able to place a hold on a pass in person at your local library, or online by logging into your library card account. Placing a hold on a pass could be a good way to plan in advance for an upcoming trip where you want to use the free pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.library.ca.gov/branches/\">Find your nearest local library.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money will I be saving by using a California State Library Parks Pass?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Entry fees usually vary between state parks, and often go up around peak visit weekends or holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://store.parks.ca.gov/category/default-category/park-passes/\">California Explorer Annual Day Use Pass typically costs $195\u003c/a>, but doesn’t cover all state parks in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910593\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11910593 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55016_GettyImages-1379725445-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A view up a sandy shoreline alongside steep, shaded, rocky cliffs, with the sun shining on receding waves.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1308\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55016_GettyImages-1379725445-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55016_GettyImages-1379725445-qut-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55016_GettyImages-1379725445-qut-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55016_GettyImages-1379725445-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55016_GettyImages-1379725445-qut-1536x1046.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaviota State Park in Gaviota, one of the state parks that will accept the California State Library Parks Pass. \u003ccite>(George Rose/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How long can I keep the pass?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’ll really depend on your local library — because each library gets to decide how long a pass can be checked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contact your local library to find out how long they’re loaning their passes for, and to make sure you return your pass in a timely manner so the next person can enjoy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I use the pass to enter multiple state parks that accept it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, you can use it to enter as many eligible state parks as you like during the loan period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is another reason placing a hold on a pass may be a helpful way to plan ahead for a few days of travel (or a road trip) to enable you to visit multiple state parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the catch?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Remember that not all state parks are participating in this program, and the passes don’t cover camping fees. The Department of Parks and Recreation also says that the pass won’t cover “per-person entry or tour fees (such as museums), boat use, camping, group use or sites, special events, additional/extra vehicle fees, sanitation disposal use or … supplemental fees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, libraries can decide on the number of days a pass can be checked out, and each library will get a minimum of just three passes to give out. So if your local library doesn’t have many passes on offer, and they allow cardholders to keep a pass for several days, you may have to wait for your turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910592\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910592\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55015_GettyImages-547363506-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55015_GettyImages-547363506-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55015_GettyImages-547363506-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55015_GettyImages-547363506-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55015_GettyImages-547363506-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55015_GettyImages-547363506-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Diablo State Park in Alamo, with the tallest mountain in the San Francisco Bay Area, July 2016. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"librarycard\">\u003c/a>What if I don’t have a library card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Getting a library card is fairly simple, and will allow you to access not only a California State Library Parks Pass, but also the full range of your local library’s books, media, records and library services like laptop and internet access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To apply for a library card, you must:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Be a California resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Provide a government-issued photo ID such as your valid driver’s license, state ID, passport, consulate ID card or active military ID.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.library.ca.gov/branches/\">Find your local library near you.\u003c/a> You may be able to apply for a library card in person or online — but be sure to check whether the pandemic has changed your local library’s opening times if you go in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"validstateparks\">\u003c/a>Which California state parks offer free entry with a Library Parks Pass?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Take a look at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/Find-a-Park\">California Department of Parks and Recreation’s map\u003c/a> (toggle “show map”) to find the state parks nearest you, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21805\">find the state park you’re looking for in this full list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30813\">see the list of state parks where you \u003cem>can’t\u003c/em> use a California State Library Parks Pass\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the state parks around the Bay Area that are currently offering free entry with a California State Library Parks Pass:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22880\">Albany State Marine Reserve\u003c/a>, Albany\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=450\">Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve\u003c/a>, Guerneville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=482\">Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park\u003c/a>, St. Helena\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=527\">Bean Hollow State Beach\u003c/a>, near Pescadero\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=475\">Benicia Capitol State Historic Park\u003c/a>, Benicia\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=476\">Benicia State Recreation Area\u003c/a>, Benicia\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=562\">Bethany Reservoir State Recreation Area\u003c/a>, Byron (near Livermore)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=540\">Big Basin Redwoods State Park\u003c/a>, Boulder Creek\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=477\">Bothe-Napa Valley State Park\u003c/a>, Calistoga\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=487\">Brannan Island State Recreation Area\u003c/a>, Rio Vista\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=535\">Burleigh H. Murray Ranch Park Property\u003c/a>, Half Moon Bay\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=536\">Butano State Park\u003c/a>, Pescadero\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=519\">Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, \u003c/a>San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=538\">Castle Rock State Park\u003c/a>, Los Gatos\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=466\">China Camp State Park\u003c/a>, San Rafael\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=492\">Delta Meadows Park Property\u003c/a>, Vallejo\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22881\">Emeryville Crescent State Marine Reserve\u003c/a>, Emeryville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=490\">Franks Tract State Recreation Area\u003c/a>, Bethel Island\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=528\">Gray Whale Cove State Beach\u003c/a>, Half Moon Bay\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=531\">Half Moon Bay State Beach\u003c/a>, Half Moon Bay\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=478\">Jack London State Historic Park\u003c/a>, Glen Ellen\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=24343\">Locke Boarding House Museum Point of Interest\u003c/a>, Locke\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=520\">McLaughlin Eastshore State Park State Seashore\u003c/a>, Berkeley\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=532\">Montara State Beach\u003c/a>, Montara\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=517\">Mount Diablo State Park\u003c/a>, Walnut Creek\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=471\">Mount Tamalpais State Park\u003c/a>, Mill Valley\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=465\">Olompali State Historic Park\u003c/a>, Novato\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=522\">Pescadero State Beach\u003c/a>, Pescadero\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=533\">Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park\u003c/a>, Pescadero\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=521\">Pomponio State Beach\u003c/a>, San Gregorio\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=539\">Portola Redwoods State Park\u003c/a>, La Honda\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=469\">Samuel P. Taylor State Park\u003c/a>, Lagunitas\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=529\">San Gregorio State Beach\u003c/a>, San Gregorio\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=481\">Sugarloaf Ridge State Park\u003c/a>, Kenwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=530\">Thornton State Beach\u003c/a>, Daly City\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=470\">Tomales Bay State Park\u003c/a>, Inverness\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=480\">Trione-Annadel State Park\u003c/a>, Santa Rosa.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919845\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11919845\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Spohrer, state parks superintendent in the Santa Cruz area, stands in front of burned redwood trees at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"californiastateparkpass\">\u003c/a>How else can I save money visiting California state parks?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Except where otherwise noted, these passes can be used at every California state park, excluding units operated by federal and local government, private agencies or concessionaires (like Angel Island in the Bay Area).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California State Park Adventure Pass (free)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there’s a fourth grader in your household, you’re eligible for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/AdventurePass\">California State Park Adventure Pass\u003c/a>, which gives one family (up to three adults and other kids) and friends who can fit in the same car free entry to \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30667\">54 participating state parks.\u003c/a> The pass is valid for the one-year period during which the child is in the fourth grade, from September 1 to August 31. In the Bay Area, participating parks include \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=478\">Jack London State Historic Park\u003c/a> in Glen Ellen, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=469\">Samuel P. Taylor State Park\u003c/a> in Lagunitas and \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1179\">Hollister Hills State Vehicular Recreation Area\u003c/a> (Gabilan Mountains outside San José).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read more on \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/AdventurePass\">how to get a California State Park Adventure Pass\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp id=\"GoldenBear\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30960\">Golden Bear Pass\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>(free)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valid for the calendar year, this pass gives free vehicle day-use \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/737/files/Golden%20Bear%20Park%20Acceptance%20List%20ADA.pdf\">access to certain California state parks (PDF)\u003c/a> for CalWORKs recipients, SSI recipients, and people whose incomes fall under a certain threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the Golden Bear Pass was also expanded to participants of California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/tribal-tanf\">Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30960\">Read more about how to get a Golden Bear Pass.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30961\">Senior Golden Bear Pass\u003c/a> ($20)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People age 62 years and older, along with their spouse or domestic partner, can get \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/737/files/Limited%20Use%20Golden%20Bear%20Park%20Acceptance%20List%20ADA.pdf\">free entry to many state parks (PDF)\u003c/a> during \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/737/files/Limited%20Use%20Golden%20Bear%20Park%20Acceptance%20List%20ADA.pdf\">non-peak season (PDF)\u003c/a> with this pass, which was formerly known as the Limited Use Golden Bear Pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30961\">Read more about how to get a Limited Use Golden Bear Pass.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30959\">Disabled Discount Pass\u003c/a> ($3.50 for a 50% discount)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This $3.50 lifetime pass gives individuals with permanent disabilities a 50% discount on vehicle day-use, family camping and boat-use fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30958\">Distinguished Veteran Pass\u003c/a> (free)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lifetime pass for honorably discharged veterans living in California who also meet \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30958\">certain requirements listed here\u003c/a>. Pass holders can use all basic facilities (day-use, camping and boating) in California state parks for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An earlier version of this story first published on July 27, 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re hoping to take advantage of this program soon, there’s good news: After the state legislature eliminated $6.75 million in funding for the pass program, which would have shuttered it on Dec. 31, it’s now been announced that this money has been restored to the state budget. Now, the pass program will continue at least through 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to figures from the California State Library, there have been over 284,000 pass checkouts since the program launched in April 2022 through March 2025 — with 134,784 of those passes checked out since July 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/712/files/fact%20sheet%20parks%20150th%20anniversary%20final.pdf\">California’s state park system is the largest in the nation (PDF)\u003c/a>, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/Find-a-Park\">a large number of parks accessible within the Bay Area\u003c/a> itself. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/50949/suffering-from-nature-deficit-disorder-try-forest-bathing\">getting into nature has documented health benefits\u003c/a> — and the state says \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1078\">this program is about helping more Californians explore the outdoors\u003c/a>, and reducing financial barriers to entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to find out how to get free entry to California’s state parks — and which other \u003ca href=\"#californiastateparkpass\">free or low-cost passes to state parks\u003c/a> are available.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which state parks will accept the California State Library Parks Pass?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The pass is valid for use any day of the week, including holidays (but only if space in the park is available). Still, it’s important to note that not every state park in California will accept the California State Library Parks Pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910594\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910594\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55018_GettyImages-148204289-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Soaring California redwoods photographed from below\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55018_GettyImages-148204289-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55018_GettyImages-148204289-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55018_GettyImages-148204289-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55018_GettyImages-148204289-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55018_GettyImages-148204289-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old-growth redwood trees in Armstrong Woods State Natural Reserve in Guerneville. \u003ccite>(George Rose/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else would you like to read a guide to?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Parks and Recreation say the pass won’t be accepted “at units operated by federal and local government, private agencies or concessionaires.” In the Bay Area, for example, Angel Island, Pacifica State Beach and San Bruno Mountain State Park won’t accept a California State Library Parks Pass for free entry.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Still, there are a lot of state parks in the Bay Area where you \u003cem>can\u003c/em> use the pass. These include \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=471\">Mount Tamalpais State Park\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=531\">Half Moon Bay State Beach\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=517\">Mount Diablo State Park\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=538\">Castle Rock State Park\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=533\">Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=540\">Big Basin Redwoods State Park\u003c/a> — the oldest state park in California, founded in 1902. Jump to a list of the \u003ca href=\"#validstateparks\">state parks around the Bay Area that will accept the California State Library Parks Pass.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take a look at:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The full list of \u003ca href=\"#validstateparks\">California state parks that offer free entry with a California State Library Parks Pass\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30813\"> state parks that \u003cem>won’t\u003c/em> accept a California State Library Parks Pass\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23474\">some of California’s most notable state parks\u003c/a>, if you’re hoping to use the pass to travel further afield.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30812\">FAQ about the California State Library Parks Pass program\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How can I check out a California State Library Parks Pass from my local library?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Each library may have different preferences for how you check out a pass, but your best bet is almost certainly by visiting in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Different public libraries have received different numbers of passes, with the minimum being three passes per library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#librarycard\">How to get a library card (if you don’t have one yet).\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you have a library card with a public library system that has multiple locations — like in San Francisco or Oakland, for example — the California State Library Parks Passes most likely will be spread out between these locations. Contact your local branch ahead of time to confirm the location of the pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your library gets to decide how many days you can keep a pass, so make sure you know that return date when you check out a pass.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Your library may also allow you to place a hold on a pass, just like you would a book — this is, for example, what the San Francisco Public Library allows for cardholders. You may be able to place a hold on a pass in person at your local library, or online by logging into your library card account. Placing a hold on a pass could be a good way to plan in advance for an upcoming trip where you want to use the free pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.library.ca.gov/branches/\">Find your nearest local library.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much money will I be saving by using a California State Library Parks Pass?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Entry fees usually vary between state parks, and often go up around peak visit weekends or holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://store.parks.ca.gov/category/default-category/park-passes/\">California Explorer Annual Day Use Pass typically costs $195\u003c/a>, but doesn’t cover all state parks in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910593\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11910593 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55016_GettyImages-1379725445-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A view up a sandy shoreline alongside steep, shaded, rocky cliffs, with the sun shining on receding waves.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1308\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55016_GettyImages-1379725445-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55016_GettyImages-1379725445-qut-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55016_GettyImages-1379725445-qut-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55016_GettyImages-1379725445-qut-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55016_GettyImages-1379725445-qut-1536x1046.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaviota State Park in Gaviota, one of the state parks that will accept the California State Library Parks Pass. \u003ccite>(George Rose/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How long can I keep the pass?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’ll really depend on your local library — because each library gets to decide how long a pass can be checked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contact your local library to find out how long they’re loaning their passes for, and to make sure you return your pass in a timely manner so the next person can enjoy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I use the pass to enter multiple state parks that accept it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, you can use it to enter as many eligible state parks as you like during the loan period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is another reason placing a hold on a pass may be a helpful way to plan ahead for a few days of travel (or a road trip) to enable you to visit multiple state parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the catch?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Remember that not all state parks are participating in this program, and the passes don’t cover camping fees. The Department of Parks and Recreation also says that the pass won’t cover “per-person entry or tour fees (such as museums), boat use, camping, group use or sites, special events, additional/extra vehicle fees, sanitation disposal use or … supplemental fees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, libraries can decide on the number of days a pass can be checked out, and each library will get a minimum of just three passes to give out. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"validstateparks\">\u003c/a>Which California state parks offer free entry with a Library Parks Pass?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Take a look at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/Find-a-Park\">California Department of Parks and Recreation’s map\u003c/a> (toggle “show map”) to find the state parks nearest you, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21805\">find the state park you’re looking for in this full list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30813\">see the list of state parks where you \u003cem>can’t\u003c/em> use a California State Library Parks Pass\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the state parks around the Bay Area that are currently offering free entry with a California State Library Parks Pass:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22880\">Albany State Marine Reserve\u003c/a>, Albany\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=450\">Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve\u003c/a>, Guerneville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=482\">Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park\u003c/a>, St. Helena\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=527\">Bean Hollow State Beach\u003c/a>, near Pescadero\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=475\">Benicia Capitol State Historic Park\u003c/a>, Benicia\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=476\">Benicia State Recreation Area\u003c/a>, Benicia\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=562\">Bethany Reservoir State Recreation Area\u003c/a>, Byron (near Livermore)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=540\">Big Basin Redwoods State Park\u003c/a>, Boulder Creek\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=477\">Bothe-Napa Valley State Park\u003c/a>, Calistoga\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=487\">Brannan Island State Recreation Area\u003c/a>, Rio Vista\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=535\">Burleigh H. Murray Ranch Park Property\u003c/a>, Half Moon Bay\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=536\">Butano State Park\u003c/a>, Pescadero\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=519\">Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, \u003c/a>San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=538\">Castle Rock State Park\u003c/a>, Los Gatos\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=466\">China Camp State Park\u003c/a>, San Rafael\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=492\">Delta Meadows Park Property\u003c/a>, Vallejo\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22881\">Emeryville Crescent State Marine Reserve\u003c/a>, Emeryville\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=490\">Franks Tract State Recreation Area\u003c/a>, Bethel Island\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=528\">Gray Whale Cove State Beach\u003c/a>, Half Moon Bay\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=531\">Half Moon Bay State Beach\u003c/a>, Half Moon Bay\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=478\">Jack London State Historic Park\u003c/a>, Glen Ellen\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=24343\">Locke Boarding House Museum Point of Interest\u003c/a>, Locke\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=520\">McLaughlin Eastshore State Park State Seashore\u003c/a>, Berkeley\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=532\">Montara State Beach\u003c/a>, Montara\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=517\">Mount Diablo State Park\u003c/a>, Walnut Creek\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=471\">Mount Tamalpais State Park\u003c/a>, Mill Valley\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=465\">Olompali State Historic Park\u003c/a>, Novato\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=522\">Pescadero State Beach\u003c/a>, Pescadero\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=533\">Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park\u003c/a>, Pescadero\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=521\">Pomponio State Beach\u003c/a>, San Gregorio\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=539\">Portola Redwoods State Park\u003c/a>, La Honda\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=469\">Samuel P. Taylor State Park\u003c/a>, Lagunitas\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=529\">San Gregorio State Beach\u003c/a>, San Gregorio\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=481\">Sugarloaf Ridge State Park\u003c/a>, Kenwood\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=530\">Thornton State Beach\u003c/a>, Daly City\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=470\">Tomales Bay State Park\u003c/a>, Inverness\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=480\">Trione-Annadel State Park\u003c/a>, Santa Rosa.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919845\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11919845\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS56328_011_KQED_BigBasinRedwoods_05262022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Spohrer, state parks superintendent in the Santa Cruz area, stands in front of burned redwood trees at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"californiastateparkpass\">\u003c/a>How else can I save money visiting California state parks?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Except where otherwise noted, these passes can be used at every California state park, excluding units operated by federal and local government, private agencies or concessionaires (like Angel Island in the Bay Area).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California State Park Adventure Pass (free)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there’s a fourth grader in your household, you’re eligible for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/AdventurePass\">California State Park Adventure Pass\u003c/a>, which gives one family (up to three adults and other kids) and friends who can fit in the same car free entry to \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30667\">54 participating state parks.\u003c/a> The pass is valid for the one-year period during which the child is in the fourth grade, from September 1 to August 31. In the Bay Area, participating parks include \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=478\">Jack London State Historic Park\u003c/a> in Glen Ellen, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=469\">Samuel P. Taylor State Park\u003c/a> in Lagunitas and \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1179\">Hollister Hills State Vehicular Recreation Area\u003c/a> (Gabilan Mountains outside San José).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read more on \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/AdventurePass\">how to get a California State Park Adventure Pass\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp id=\"GoldenBear\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30960\">Golden Bear Pass\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>(free)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valid for the calendar year, this pass gives free vehicle day-use \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/737/files/Golden%20Bear%20Park%20Acceptance%20List%20ADA.pdf\">access to certain California state parks (PDF)\u003c/a> for CalWORKs recipients, SSI recipients, and people whose incomes fall under a certain threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the Golden Bear Pass was also expanded to participants of California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/tribal-tanf\">Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30960\">Read more about how to get a Golden Bear Pass.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30961\">Senior Golden Bear Pass\u003c/a> ($20)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People age 62 years and older, along with their spouse or domestic partner, can get \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/737/files/Limited%20Use%20Golden%20Bear%20Park%20Acceptance%20List%20ADA.pdf\">free entry to many state parks (PDF)\u003c/a> during \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/737/files/Limited%20Use%20Golden%20Bear%20Park%20Acceptance%20List%20ADA.pdf\">non-peak season (PDF)\u003c/a> with this pass, which was formerly known as the Limited Use Golden Bear Pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30961\">Read more about how to get a Limited Use Golden Bear Pass.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30959\">Disabled Discount Pass\u003c/a> ($3.50 for a 50% discount)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This $3.50 lifetime pass gives individuals with permanent disabilities a 50% discount on vehicle day-use, family camping and boat-use fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30958\">Distinguished Veteran Pass\u003c/a> (free)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lifetime pass for honorably discharged veterans living in California who also meet \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30958\">certain requirements listed here\u003c/a>. Pass holders can use all basic facilities (day-use, camping and boating) in California state parks for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. 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"content": "\u003cp>Aimee Baldwin is worried her home is in danger of being seen as the “scruffy house” on the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s often a jumble of loose lumber and supplies the artist uses for projects in front of the garage, plants that need to be potted and a sprawling garden she describes as “chaotic” — a mix of California native flowers and shrubs that spill from the front yard and run down the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the backyard are the persimmon and Asian pear trees her grandparents, Frank and Jackie Kee, planted after they moved to Francisco Street in the mid-1950s, near what is now the North Berkeley BART station. Back then, it was a blue-collar neighborhood — her grandfather worked as a gardener at a Japanese-owned plant nursery — with a set of train tracks running through the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, those tracks have been converted into a greenway, complete with a pocket community garden Baldwin helps tend. Recently, the 960 square-foot house across from hers sold for $1.1 million, and the new owners are renovating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of wonder how much are people going to start to look down on me for having things a little funky and weird,” she said, “when other people are clearly working on fixing up their house and fixing up their yard and trying to make it look nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045597 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aimee Baldwin walks along the West Street Pathway near her home on June 23, 2025. Her neighborhood gardening group helped plant native species along the path. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Baldwin is concerned not only for the changes already underway but also about what might come if the Berkeley City Council votes Thursday to allow more duplexes, fourplexes and small apartments in most neighborhoods throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure is approved, it would be a historic reversal of more than a century of city planning. In 1916, Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c044977650&seq=9&q1=dance\">set aside\u003c/a> parts of the city as single-family neighborhoods, a provision \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Planning_Problems_of_Town_City_and_Regio/lnmiAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=chinese&pg=PA189&printsec=frontcover\">first applied\u003c/a> to Elmwood Park to combat a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">perceived invasion\u003c/a> “by flats, apartment houses and stores.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California has already essentially outlawed single-family zoning by allowing homeowners to build both accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, on their properties and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980785/these-california-companies-want-to-buy-your-backyard-and-build-a-house\">subdivide lots to build up to two duplexes\u003c/a> in most urban neighborhoods, Berkeley’s proposed \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-06-26%20Special%20Item%2001%20Zoning%20Ordinance%20and%20General%20Plan.pdf\">Middle Housing ordinance\u003c/a> would go further. It would allow greater flexibility in home design and increase the number of units permitted in each building.[aside postID=news_11996949 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/005_KQED_Housing_Berkeley_ShadowStandards_02272020__qed-1-1020x680.jpg']The ordinance would allow three-story buildings, with the number of units determined by lot size. A typical 5,000-square-foot property could potentially have five to seven units, not including ADUs. Neighborhoods in the Berkeley hills, with steep, narrow, winding roads, are excluded because of fire-safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, who has long championed the proposal, said the idea is to promote more housing on existing lots, with the expectation that the new homes will be more accessible to middle-income earners who don’t qualify for deed-restricted affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to think about the future of our city and what kind of community we want to be,” Kesarwani said. “I believe that we need to be a city that has housing opportunities for our middle-class workers. And really, the only way we can do that cost-effectively is through middle housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldwin’s block already has a diverse mix of single-family homes, duplexes and the occasional low-rise apartment building, making it emblematic of the kind of development the city’s proposed Middle Housing ordinance seeks to promote. Despite this mix, the neighborhood maintains a suburban feel, she said. Baldwin is concerned that the plan could pressure the remaining working-class families to sell, driving them out of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is middle housing getting us, besides what I fear is the opportunity for basically really large profiteering companies to come and strip our neighborhood of the community that we have,” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045599\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment building in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her fears were echoed in \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AY6R0ICLRi%C3%89I234utuTkx9iIqj755tb9wZppF2iGC%C3%81oYukxBg2GzZxdeoyRdXi6G0eZY03AA90QQ6g5%C3%89I%C3%81hjxz0%3D/\">letters sent to the council\u003c/a> ahead of Thursday’s meeting. Some residents, like Clifford Fred, are concerned about the sheer volume of development that could be unleashed, writing: “Berkeley city officials are turning what used to be a beautiful, low-rise, human-scaled city into an ugly warren of high rises and massive buildings stretching relentlessly from the Oakland border to the Albany border.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are more apprehensive about where the new homes and apartments would be built. The proposed Middle Housing ordinance would allow greater density in parts of the city that have historically allowed duplexes and apartments, and less density in the city’s existing single-family neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would only further exacerbate disparities in development, wrote a group of residents, including Eugene Turitz of Friends of Adeline and Wilhelimenia Wilson, executive director of Healthy Black Families Inc., in a joint letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Middle Housing] is discriminatory because of its predictable consequences, as neighborhoods in the ‘flats’ become repositories of excessive densities — with no additional amenities like parks or neighborhood-supporting services,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear, however, how developers will respond to Berkeley’s Middle Housing proposal, should it be adopted. In September, Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2024/09/19/sacramento-first-in-california-to-allow-multi-unit-housing-in-every-neighborhood/#:~:text=The%20Missing%20Middle%20Housing%20(MMH,and%20proximity%20to%20public%20transit.\">approved\u003c/a> a similar ordinance, becoming the first in the state to do so, though Santa Rosa is considering a \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/3495/Missing-Middle-Housing\">proposal\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house for sale in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since going into effect in October, Sacramento has received 19 applications, most for duplexes with ADUs, Nguyen Nguyen, an associate planner for the city, wrote in an email to KQED. Of those, nine have been approved and six are in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen said staff are seeing projects that otherwise would not have been allowed without the new ordinance, but added that developers tend to prefer projects on vacant lots over properties with existing homes that would first need to be demolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Builders proposing projects under the ordinance have also tended to be less experienced than typical developers, he said. “They are usually a local property owner or local entrepreneur or small real estate investor who needs extra hand-holding and technical assistance,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financing is also a challenge, according to Nguyen. Projects proposing three or more units are reviewed under the Commercial Building Code, which creates higher construction and permitting costs. Projects with four or more units require a licensed professional, which adds more cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento’s experience, though nascent, aligns with predictions from a study David Garcia \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Missing-Middle-Development-Math-Final-June-2024.pdf\">published last year\u003c/a> for UC Berkeley’s Terner Center on Housing Innovation. In it, he found that most forms of “middle housing” — buildings with two and 10 units — are not financially feasible, except for duplexes under the right conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045598\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign promoting homes at North Berkeley BART in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are so many other factors that go into whether or not a missing middle housing project can work in real life. So, it’s not just the zoning,” Garcia told KQED. “It’s all these other little rules that dictate what can be built on the sites — whether that’s setbacks, height restrictions, roof pitch materials, easements, things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers who pursue middle housing projects often find themselves mired in site-by-site problem-solving, Garcia said, making the projects unappealing to large, corporate investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no economies of scale there,” Garcia said. “A traditional large developer is not really gonna get out of bed for anything lower than 100 units. And that’s not what we’re talking about here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Klein, director of planning and development in Berkeley, thinks it unlikely his department will be overwhelmed with applications. In the first three years after the state’s lot-split law, SB 9, went into effect, developers submitted 17 applications, 12 of which were deemed eligible. Of those dozen, five single-family homes and one ADU have been approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we get 10 middle housing projects a year, I think that’ll be a success,” Klein said. “I think we’ll be excited about that. Adding maybe an average of three units per project. That’s 40 units a year. That would be great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, some proponents of the ordinance say it doesn’t go far enough and want to see it strengthened by removing density limits to allow for \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AY6R0ICLRi%C3%89I234utuTkx9iIqj755tb9wZppF2iGC%C3%81oYukxBg2GzZxdeoyRdXi6G0eZY03AA90QQ6g5%C3%89I%C3%81hjxz0%3D/\">more units\u003c/a> within the same building envelope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045601\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Matthews, a longtime Berkeley resident and former candidate for City Council District 3, near her home in Berkeley on June 23, 2025, where she’s been involved in community housing advocacy. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In South Berkeley, resident and real estate agent Deborah Matthews shares concerns about limiting development in the city’s historically exclusionary neighborhoods — but also acknowledges the demographic shift that has already taken place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To her, the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-history-of-gentrification-in\">downzoning efforts\u003c/a> in the 1960s, which limited new apartments in residential neighborhoods, have already driven up home prices and pushed out many lower- and middle-income families, including many Black residents. Berkeley’s Black population peaked in 1970 at \u003ca href=\"https://census.bayareametro.gov/historical-data/1970/berkeley\">about 24%\u003c/a> of the population. In 2024, it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/berkeleycitycalifornia/PST045223\">just over 7%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exodus is felt on Sunday strolls through South Berkeley, as much as it is heard. Where gospel music once rang out from churches, now there is silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a wonderful celebration,” Matthews said, recalling her weekly walks some three decades ago. “You would interact with people that would walk by. They’d stop and start talking with you, and people would kind of do a little rhythm dance or hand clapping or just something that they enjoyed about listening to that music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past 25 years, the price of a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/research/data/\">typical\u003c/a>” Berkeley home rose more than 270%, from around $385,000 in January 2000 to just over $1.4 million in May 2025, according to Zillow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the Middle Housing ordinance doesn’t specifically address homeownership, the city is considering separate proposals to allow homeowners to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-05-14%20Item%2028%20Increasing%20Entry%20Level%20Homeownership%20Opportunities%20Implementation%20of%20AB%201033_0.pdf\">convert ADUs into condominiums\u003c/a> and to \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-01-21%20Item%2026%20Expanding%20Homeownership.pdf\">subdivide lots\u003c/a> that don’t qualify under the state’s lot split law. Taken together with Middle Housing, Matthews said, it will allow more opportunity for homeownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m hoping is that it will provide an opportunity, first of all, for homeownership and access to people who haven’t had it before, or who feel that they’ve been left out for a number of years — and rightfully so,” she said. “That assumption, that feeling, that lack of being able to participate in the housing market, it has been very accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said the final proposal should provide that opportunity throughout the city, rather than concentrating development in areas that have already borne the brunt of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley must implement inclusionary housing development in more than a ceremonial process,” Matthews said. “Middle Housing must be an equitable action throughout our city, providing housing in every district and neighborhood to meet residents’ needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Aimee Baldwin is worried her home is in danger of being seen as the “scruffy house” on the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s often a jumble of loose lumber and supplies the artist uses for projects in front of the garage, plants that need to be potted and a sprawling garden she describes as “chaotic” — a mix of California native flowers and shrubs that spill from the front yard and run down the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the backyard are the persimmon and Asian pear trees her grandparents, Frank and Jackie Kee, planted after they moved to Francisco Street in the mid-1950s, near what is now the North Berkeley BART station. Back then, it was a blue-collar neighborhood — her grandfather worked as a gardener at a Japanese-owned plant nursery — with a set of train tracks running through the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, those tracks have been converted into a greenway, complete with a pocket community garden Baldwin helps tend. Recently, the 960 square-foot house across from hers sold for $1.1 million, and the new owners are renovating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of wonder how much are people going to start to look down on me for having things a little funky and weird,” she said, “when other people are clearly working on fixing up their house and fixing up their yard and trying to make it look nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12045597 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aimee Baldwin walks along the West Street Pathway near her home on June 23, 2025. Her neighborhood gardening group helped plant native species along the path. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Baldwin is concerned not only for the changes already underway but also about what might come if the Berkeley City Council votes Thursday to allow more duplexes, fourplexes and small apartments in most neighborhoods throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure is approved, it would be a historic reversal of more than a century of city planning. In 1916, Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c044977650&seq=9&q1=dance\">set aside\u003c/a> parts of the city as single-family neighborhoods, a provision \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Planning_Problems_of_Town_City_and_Regio/lnmiAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=chinese&pg=PA189&printsec=frontcover\">first applied\u003c/a> to Elmwood Park to combat a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Berkeley_Civic_Bulletin/u0reKZelu2MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=elmwood&pg=RA2-PA105&printsec=frontcover\">perceived invasion\u003c/a> “by flats, apartment houses and stores.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California has already essentially outlawed single-family zoning by allowing homeowners to build both accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, on their properties and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980785/these-california-companies-want-to-buy-your-backyard-and-build-a-house\">subdivide lots to build up to two duplexes\u003c/a> in most urban neighborhoods, Berkeley’s proposed \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-06-26%20Special%20Item%2001%20Zoning%20Ordinance%20and%20General%20Plan.pdf\">Middle Housing ordinance\u003c/a> would go further. It would allow greater flexibility in home design and increase the number of units permitted in each building.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The ordinance would allow three-story buildings, with the number of units determined by lot size. A typical 5,000-square-foot property could potentially have five to seven units, not including ADUs. Neighborhoods in the Berkeley hills, with steep, narrow, winding roads, are excluded because of fire-safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, who has long championed the proposal, said the idea is to promote more housing on existing lots, with the expectation that the new homes will be more accessible to middle-income earners who don’t qualify for deed-restricted affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to think about the future of our city and what kind of community we want to be,” Kesarwani said. “I believe that we need to be a city that has housing opportunities for our middle-class workers. And really, the only way we can do that cost-effectively is through middle housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldwin’s block already has a diverse mix of single-family homes, duplexes and the occasional low-rise apartment building, making it emblematic of the kind of development the city’s proposed Middle Housing ordinance seeks to promote. Despite this mix, the neighborhood maintains a suburban feel, she said. Baldwin is concerned that the plan could pressure the remaining working-class families to sell, driving them out of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is middle housing getting us, besides what I fear is the opportunity for basically really large profiteering companies to come and strip our neighborhood of the community that we have,” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045599\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment building in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her fears were echoed in \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AY6R0ICLRi%C3%89I234utuTkx9iIqj755tb9wZppF2iGC%C3%81oYukxBg2GzZxdeoyRdXi6G0eZY03AA90QQ6g5%C3%89I%C3%81hjxz0%3D/\">letters sent to the council\u003c/a> ahead of Thursday’s meeting. Some residents, like Clifford Fred, are concerned about the sheer volume of development that could be unleashed, writing: “Berkeley city officials are turning what used to be a beautiful, low-rise, human-scaled city into an ugly warren of high rises and massive buildings stretching relentlessly from the Oakland border to the Albany border.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are more apprehensive about where the new homes and apartments would be built. The proposed Middle Housing ordinance would allow greater density in parts of the city that have historically allowed duplexes and apartments, and less density in the city’s existing single-family neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This would only further exacerbate disparities in development, wrote a group of residents, including Eugene Turitz of Friends of Adeline and Wilhelimenia Wilson, executive director of Healthy Black Families Inc., in a joint letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Middle Housing] is discriminatory because of its predictable consequences, as neighborhoods in the ‘flats’ become repositories of excessive densities — with no additional amenities like parks or neighborhood-supporting services,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear, however, how developers will respond to Berkeley’s Middle Housing proposal, should it be adopted. In September, Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://sacramentocityexpress.com/2024/09/19/sacramento-first-in-california-to-allow-multi-unit-housing-in-every-neighborhood/#:~:text=The%20Missing%20Middle%20Housing%20(MMH,and%20proximity%20to%20public%20transit.\">approved\u003c/a> a similar ordinance, becoming the first in the state to do so, though Santa Rosa is considering a \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/3495/Missing-Middle-Housing\">proposal\u003c/a> as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045600\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house for sale in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since going into effect in October, Sacramento has received 19 applications, most for duplexes with ADUs, Nguyen Nguyen, an associate planner for the city, wrote in an email to KQED. Of those, nine have been approved and six are in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen said staff are seeing projects that otherwise would not have been allowed without the new ordinance, but added that developers tend to prefer projects on vacant lots over properties with existing homes that would first need to be demolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Builders proposing projects under the ordinance have also tended to be less experienced than typical developers, he said. “They are usually a local property owner or local entrepreneur or small real estate investor who needs extra hand-holding and technical assistance,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financing is also a challenge, according to Nguyen. Projects proposing three or more units are reviewed under the Commercial Building Code, which creates higher construction and permitting costs. Projects with four or more units require a licensed professional, which adds more cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento’s experience, though nascent, aligns with predictions from a study David Garcia \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Missing-Middle-Development-Math-Final-June-2024.pdf\">published last year\u003c/a> for UC Berkeley’s Terner Center on Housing Innovation. In it, he found that most forms of “middle housing” — buildings with two and 10 units — are not financially feasible, except for duplexes under the right conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045598\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign promoting homes at North Berkeley BART in Berkeley on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are so many other factors that go into whether or not a missing middle housing project can work in real life. So, it’s not just the zoning,” Garcia told KQED. “It’s all these other little rules that dictate what can be built on the sites — whether that’s setbacks, height restrictions, roof pitch materials, easements, things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers who pursue middle housing projects often find themselves mired in site-by-site problem-solving, Garcia said, making the projects unappealing to large, corporate investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no economies of scale there,” Garcia said. “A traditional large developer is not really gonna get out of bed for anything lower than 100 units. And that’s not what we’re talking about here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Klein, director of planning and development in Berkeley, thinks it unlikely his department will be overwhelmed with applications. In the first three years after the state’s lot-split law, SB 9, went into effect, developers submitted 17 applications, 12 of which were deemed eligible. Of those dozen, five single-family homes and one ADU have been approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we get 10 middle housing projects a year, I think that’ll be a success,” Klein said. “I think we’ll be excited about that. Adding maybe an average of three units per project. That’s 40 units a year. That would be great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, some proponents of the ordinance say it doesn’t go far enough and want to see it strengthened by removing density limits to allow for \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AY6R0ICLRi%C3%89I234utuTkx9iIqj755tb9wZppF2iGC%C3%81oYukxBg2GzZxdeoyRdXi6G0eZY03AA90QQ6g5%C3%89I%C3%81hjxz0%3D/\">more units\u003c/a> within the same building envelope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045601\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-BERKELEYMIDDLEHOUSING-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Matthews, a longtime Berkeley resident and former candidate for City Council District 3, near her home in Berkeley on June 23, 2025, where she’s been involved in community housing advocacy. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In South Berkeley, resident and real estate agent Deborah Matthews shares concerns about limiting development in the city’s historically exclusionary neighborhoods — but also acknowledges the demographic shift that has already taken place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To her, the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-history-of-gentrification-in\">downzoning efforts\u003c/a> in the 1960s, which limited new apartments in residential neighborhoods, have already driven up home prices and pushed out many lower- and middle-income families, including many Black residents. Berkeley’s Black population peaked in 1970 at \u003ca href=\"https://census.bayareametro.gov/historical-data/1970/berkeley\">about 24%\u003c/a> of the population. In 2024, it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/berkeleycitycalifornia/PST045223\">just over 7%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exodus is felt on Sunday strolls through South Berkeley, as much as it is heard. Where gospel music once rang out from churches, now there is silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a wonderful celebration,” Matthews said, recalling her weekly walks some three decades ago. “You would interact with people that would walk by. 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