At the June 22 general CCCC meeting, Tipping Structural Engineers described a new concept for reducing earthquake damage risk and adding usable space to both buildings for a much lower cost than previously projected. The areas in color on these drawings would be seismically strong additions that would serve as buttresses to stabilize the entire…

After several months of meeting on Zoom as CCCC and as three subgroups looking at ideas for the park, the Maudelle Shirek Building and the Veterans Building respectively, we learned that the City was considering a major infrastructure bond measure and began advocating that the Civic Center projects be included. It is not our role…

Robin Grossinger of San Francisco Estuary Institute gave a Zoom presentation on “Urban Ecology” with reference to the downtown Berkeley area. The video is here.

In a Zoom meeting, Margo Schueler gave an illustrated talk about what lies beneath the surface of Civic Center Park and the surrounding streets. A video of the session is here and the PowerPoint slides are here.