[asah]

To be fair, it's highly unclear if Berkeley would benefit from population growth, or lose its character as it tries to scale.

[wbl]

It's already lost so many black families that defined its character up through the 1970's and 1980's.

[kevinburke]

"Losing its character" is not a climate impact.

[ianai]

Lots of culture will be lost one way or the other due to climate change. Addressing climate change the soonest possible is how to keep as much of what we know as normalcy into the future.

[rib3ye]

And there’s the heart of NIMBYism. All projects must scale gracefully as they grow or face technical and political debt, and cities are no exception.

[kevinburke]

Berkeley has basically the same population as it did in 1950. It is home to the best public university in the state, which outdates any residents by a century. Students and low income workers sleep in cars, in tents near Highway 80 or commute from Antioch for lack of housing.

If there is any city that should be scaling aggressively instead of “gracefully” it’s Berkeley.