{"id":210,"date":"2015-04-06T19:19:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T19:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/?p=210"},"modified":"2015-04-06T19:29:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T19:29:09","slug":"requirements-tall-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Requirements For Tall Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Item #37 on the Berkeley Council meeting tomorrow, April 7th, is\u00a0about &#8220;Significant Community Benefits&#8221; for proposed buildings over 75 ft. high:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.berkeley.ca.us\/Clerk\/City_Council\/2015\/04_Apr\/City_Council__04-07-2015_-_Regular_Meeting_Agenda.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">City Council Agenda<\/a><br \/>\nThis sounds arcane, but it&#8217;s not. If you love your downtown, come to the meeting and speak up!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Downtown Area Plan requires that buildings over 75 feet provide \u201csignificant community benefits\u201d. These can be provided directly or by\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">giving $ in lieu. The benefits have never been fully defined, but include: affordable housing, supportive social services, green features, open space, transportation demand management features, job training, and\/or employment opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Affordable housing is a hot-button issue. The planned development in the City falls woefully short of the goals that the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) set. We&#8217;re building plenty of new apartments and condos, but they&#8217;re all for high-income people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Item #37 on the Berkeley Council meeting tomorrow, April 7th, is\u00a0about &#8220;Significant Community Benefits&#8221; for proposed buildings over 75 ft. high: City Council Agenda This sounds arcane, but it&#8217;s not. If you love your downtown, come to the meeting and speak up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}