A group of Berkeley residents has filed suit against the City of Berkeley for failing to act with due process when it approved the application, by Lotus founder and philanthropist Mitch Kapor, to build a new home at 2707 Rose Street. The newly formed Berkeley Hillside Preservation group filed a petition in the Alameda Superior [...]
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Mitch Kapor’s Berkeley home: From white to gray
Notice anything different? A new image of the architects‘ model for Mitch Kapor’s proposed home at 2707 Rose Street has emerged. Seems as though someone has had a change of heart on the exterior hue of the home.
Welcome to Berkeley Mr Kapor: Appeal is voted down
Software mogul Mitch Kapor can crack open the champagne. At last night’s City Council meeting Berkeley’s council members voted to reject the appeal on his approved application to the Zoning Application Board to build a new home in our city. His plan for a contemporary, 6,478 sq ft house at 2707 Rose Street now has the green [...]
Mitch Kapor’s Berkeley home: Countdown to appeal
Item 17 on the agenda for tomorrow’s City Council Meeting is bound to draw crowds. It concerns the appeal to the zoning board’s approval for a new home to be built at 2707 Rose Street. The application was made in the name of Mitch Kapor and his wife Freada Klein. You can read all about the application and [...]
Mitch Kapor’s Berkeley home: The debate continues
This last few days, Berkeleyside’s inbox has been filling up with copies of letters from north Berkeley neighbors — addressed to Councilmembers and/or the city’s Mayor — opposed to the construction of a new home at 2707 Rose Street, the application for which, made by Mitch Kapor, has been approved by Berkeley’s planning board, but [...]
Neighbors v. neighbors in Mitch Kapor home case
One group of neighbors is pitted against another in an ongoing discussion about a proposal by software mogul Mitch Kapor to build a new home at 2707 Rose Street. The plan has been rubber-stamped by the city. But an appeal looms on April 27. On March 15 we published a letter from a group of [...]
Neighbors express support for 2707 Rose Street home
On January 28, Berkeley’s Zoning Adjustment Board approved a plan submitted on behalf of Mitchell Kapor to build a new home at 2707 Rose Street (model pictured left). The approval is being appealed. Berkeleyside first drew attention to this issue on January 25. We published an explanation of the thinking behind the appeal, written by architect [...]
Date set for appeal on Mitch Kapor’s Rose St home
The appeal against the city-approved plan to build a new, contemporary home at 2707 Rose Street will be presented in a hearing on April 27. The authors of the appeal have just seven minutes to make their case. The appeal concerns the application made by Lotus founder Mitch Kapor to build a new 6,478 sq [...]
Comment: Why Berkeley must revisit its approval for new home construction on Rose Street
On January 28, Berkeley’s Zoning Adjustment Board approved an application to build a new home at 2707 Rose Street (rendering above). The application was made by Mitchell Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corporation, and would involve the demolition of a 2,477 sq ft home and three outbuildings currently on the property. Below, Gary Parsons explains [...]
Modern moves afoot on Rose Street
Rose Street residents in north Berkeley will be interested to hear the outcome of a zoning hearing taking place on Thursday this week which will determine whether a home in their vicinity will get the OK to be demolished and replaced with a considerably larger one. Lotus founder, philanthropist and angel investor Mitchell Kapor is [...]
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