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	<title>Comments on: Comment: how to make Downtown an economic asset</title>
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		<title>By: deirdre</title>
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		<dc:creator>deirdre</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;d like the plan&#039;s authors to provide justification about how the addition of taller buildings &quot;will provide more prevailing wage jobs and career pathways for Berkeley youth&quot;.  If these are only construction-related jobs, let&#039;s forget it. 

I&#039;d like the plan&#039;s authors to address the inevitable increases in our city&#039;s ever-growing school population.  There is very little room for our elementary schools to expand, and certainly BHS seems too big already.

I&#039;d like authors to justify why these taller buildings &quot;will contribute most significantly to open space.&quot;  Will shorter ones be torn down?  If not, I&#039;m worried about the concrete canyon feeling we&#039;d get in walking down our streets.  I certainly experience concrete claustrophobia as I walk the perimeter of the Brower Center.  Maybe it&#039;s wonderful inside, but walking around the outside of it gives me a gloomy feeling.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d like the plan&#8217;s authors to provide justification about how the addition of taller buildings &#8220;will provide more prevailing wage jobs and career pathways for Berkeley youth&#8221;.  If these are only construction-related jobs, let&#8217;s forget it. </p>
<p>I&#8217;d like the plan&#8217;s authors to address the inevitable increases in our city&#8217;s ever-growing school population.  There is very little room for our elementary schools to expand, and certainly BHS seems too big already.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like authors to justify why these taller buildings &#8220;will contribute most significantly to open space.&#8221;  Will shorter ones be torn down?  If not, I&#8217;m worried about the concrete canyon feeling we&#8217;d get in walking down our streets.  I certainly experience concrete claustrophobia as I walk the perimeter of the Brower Center.  Maybe it&#8217;s wonderful inside, but walking around the outside of it gives me a gloomy feeling.</p>
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