SEVEN REASONS WHY THE OAK GROVE SHOULD NOT BE DESTROYED
1. It is a Native American burial ground. Native American remains were found at the site in 1923 when the stadium was being built. UC Berkley tried to hide this from the public but documentation was leaked by a conscious UCB employee.
2. It is a World War I Memorial site. The stadium and the Oak Grove are named in honor of Californians who died in World War I.
3. Berkeley City Law prohibits removing mature Coast Live Oaks. Coast Live Oaks are Protected Heritage Trees in the City of Berkeley. If UCB, the largest landowner in Berkeley, doesn't have to follow city ordinances, why should anyone else have to?
4. The new proposed development is adjacent to the (recently active) Hayward Fault. Since the tree-sit started on Dec. 2 there have been seven earthquakes (ranging from 2.0-4.2 on the Richter scale) on the Hayward fault which runs directly under Memorial Stadium.
5. There are four lawsuits against UC Berkeley. A diverse group of institutions and organizations; the City of Berkeley, California Oaks Foundation, Panoramic Hill Association and Save Tightwad Hill are challenging the proposed development as being in violation of various regulations including CEQA (California Envoironmental Quality Air Act), the Alquist-Priolo Act (earthquake fault proximity), and laws regarding emergency access and response requirements.
6. Global Warming is the biggest problem we face today. Cutting down old Oak (and other trees accellerates warming and climate change. Replacing these trees with saplings does not come close to replacing the bio-mass lost.
7. There are other viable alternative sites for the facility. The athletic training facility can be built at Maxwell Field, with the playing surface maintained above. The parking lot at Bancroft/Fulton is another option. A third option is the building at 2223 Fulton St., which is in need of demolition. A further option is expansion at the Edwards Field site. These are only some of the many alternatives to building at Oak Grove.
WE CAN HAVE NEW GYMS AND OLD GROWTH
Damn Commies.
4 comments:
I saw 'em. They said they'd been living up in those trees since last December. The police got them all penned up inside a big fence now.
Hey football is big business, even in California.
But UT fans made the newspapers out there. Check out this article...
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_6785715?nclick_check=1
Football provides more money for that school than any other event that the campus has. This isn't the sixties get out of the damn trees already hippies. A new facility would do wonders and is much needed for that school. Take a Geology class and find out exactly all the wonders of the "Global Warming" theories. I think you'll be surprised. I'm from Texas and down here football is religion. We would have already torn down the trees and built a huge football facility temple. I say start knocking the trees down and see how many of those hippies still stay in them. This is ridiculous!! Worry about some of the other problems we face today. New construction is one of the most vital parts of our economy and it will really help the value of the property as well as the school to build that facility. Damn hippies.!!
To get them out of the tree - two choices SMOKE or ODOR. Pile up dried leaves and burn them on a quiet day (no wind). Or pile up the campus garbage and let nature take its course.
Fellow native Californians, we are united in our support for full prosecution of UCB trespassers who have burdened us with greater than one million dollars of expense. It is shameful to think how some selfish criminals purposefully cost us funds that could have benefited and educated many.
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