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You are cordially invited to a Forum on:
The
West Berkeley Plan & Sustainability:
Economy,
Environment, and Equity
presented by:
WEBAIC • West Berkeley Artisans & Industrial Companies
Thursday March
20, 2008, 6:30 PM
West Berkeley Senior
Center
1900 Sixth St., corner
of Sixth St. & Hearst Avenue
The West
Berkeley Plan, West Berkeley's guiding zoning document,
was created through an open community process involving all interested
West Berkeley stakeholders and City staff. The City of Berkeley
Planning Department now proposes to change fundamentally both the
content and structure of the Plan. These changes have the potential to
significantly alter the composition of West Berkeley's vital and unique
economic mix of businesses, the ethnic and economic diversity of the
City's workforce and population, and the environmental balance of the
City and region. The process addressing these changes is
being conducted without the meaningful participation of the community
that was the hallmark of the widely respected and innovative West
Berkeley Plan process.
To
enable the community
to make informed decisions on these important issues before us, WEBAIC
has invited the following speakers to present their uniquely informed
and valuable perspectives:
Karen
Chapple
PhD. UC Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning
Director of UC Berkeley's
Center for
Community Innovation.
• The Industrial Land
Debate: Arguments, Assumptions, and Alternatives •
Raquel
Pinderhughes
PhD SFSU Professor of Urban Studies,
author of The City of
Berkeley's
Green Collar Jobs Report
• Green Collar Jobs and
the capacity of green businesses to provide high quality jobs for men
and women with barriers to employment. •
Abby
Thorne-Lyman
Senior Associate of Strategic Economics
• Making The Case for
Industrial Land:
The Future for the Bay
Area's Industrial Lands •
Kate
O'Hara
Community Benefits Coordinator -
EBASE, East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy.
• Preserving Industrial
Lands, Growing Good Jobs •
A
discussion between the presenters, an expanded panel, and the audience will
take place after the presentations. Please join us.
WEBAIC • West Berkeley Artisans & Industrial Companies
webaic.org • (510) 549-3213 • PO Box 2307, Berkeley CA 94702
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