The University of California at Berkeley is sending strong signals that it is preparing for the final chapter of the saga over its plans to build a new 1,100-bed student housing dormitory on a site that encompasses People's Park.
A large law enforcement task force swept through People's Park at the beginning of the year and cleared out the people who were still living in the park, a cultural landmark that has since 1969 evolved into a homeless encampment.
The police action was followed by UC-Berkeley barricading the construction site with a wall of double-stacked shipping containers, closing off access to everyone but crews from the general contractor for the student housing project, San Francisco-based Webcor.
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