The People's Park in Berkeley, a landmark homeless encampment first occupied by hippies in the Bay Area's 1968 "summer of love," will continue to be a lightning rod for a simmering civil dispute.
A state appeals court in San Francisco last week overturned a lower court ruling in August that gave UC Berkeley the green light to clear the 2.8-acre park and erect a student housing campus with 1,100 student beds and 125 units set aside for homeless people who live in the park in makeshift shacks, including some Vietnam War veterans who say they've been there since the 1970s.
The university, which owns the property—and had already started clearing trees from the park in anticipation of construction this year—is vowing to take the case to California's Supreme Court, with the backing of Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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