Keep Industrial Zones for Industry, Artisans, & Artists

Support Housing In Mixed Use Residential & S.Pablo Zones, NOT the “Productions” Zones.  Obama and the nation support a US manufacturing renaissance while Berkeley mulls marching backward - promoting industrial displacement with 1-2000 new housing units in the MULI Industrial Zone, More Than Allowed On San Pablo.

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WEBAIC POSITIONS:

1.  No To Residences in  Mixed Use Light Industrial Zone – (MULI)

     Yes To Keeping Mixed Use Light Industrial Zone (MULI) for Industry & Artisans/Artists To Make Things

2. No To Allowing Incompatible Industrial Uses In the Mixed Use Residential Zone (MUR)  

    Yes To Keeping the MUR Livable - Support existing zoning that locating pharmaceutical

    manufacturing, laboratories, and R&D in industrial zones & out of MUR.

3. Support Existing Height Limits in Mixed Use Light Industrial & Mixed Use Residential Zones     

    Support expanded heights only for industrial equipment and processes requiring expanded height from

    ground level (grade).

4. Support Only Development Near Aquatic Park That Doesn’t Degrade Wildlife  

    Habitat or Recreational Parkland.

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Further Explanation of  Position 1: No Residences in Mixed Use Light Industrial Zone – (MULI)

   •     Industry & Artisan/Arts are incompatible with residential housing.  Placing housing among industrial uses creates unnecesary conflicts historically leading to the loss of the industry and arts and the good jobs provided. The Supplemental Environmental Impact Report calls this displacement a Significant and Unavoidable Impact and admits this could occur if this proposal is adopted.

     •     Berkeley Planning Director Dan Marks (recently retired) said this separation, a key component of the West Berkeley Plan, "is one of the fundamentals of zoning."  This proposal is a serious, fundamental violation of the West Berkeley Plan’s Goals and Policies, and a violation of Planning staff’s pledge to “Avoid housing in the manufacturing zones” and to “Maintain West Berkeley Plan Goals and Policies”.

    •    With the US focused on supporting sustainable manufacturing and industry, Berkeley shouldn’t be marching in the opposite direction and pressuring these sectors, particularly while the two proposed Master Use Permit developments seeking this change already have MUR and CW property zoned for hundreds of residential units.