The university plans to build two 12- and six-story dorm buildings at People’s Park later this year, after the city, university and local nonprofits finish relocating dozens of people currently living there into the Rodeway Inn on University Avenue. In addition, 1.7 acres will be preserved as open space. He said the university’s ideas for commemorating People’s Park range from a memorial walkway of a May 1969 “Bloody Thursday” protest in which a person was killed by police and dozens injured to murals and photo displays of various events. “These are the reasons our plans for the park have always included a first-of-its-kind commemoration of the park’s past and its significance for the campus and city communities, and for our country,” Mogulof said in an email. State historian William Burg said that because UC is a public entity, it doesn’t have a private property owner’s right to prevent the park from being listed as historic.įuture of state housing is at stake in UC ruling, governor says In April 2021, UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor Marc Fisher wrote to the commission that while the university will commemorate the park’s history in its development plan, fact is a few trees are the only “physical remnants … dating to the posited period of significance” in 1968-69. (Howard Erker/Oakland Tribune/Bay Area News Group Archive) BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA – MAY 30, 1969: Protestors holding sign, “Give us the Park” during a demonstration against the government’s use of force in the conflict over the People’s Park. One commissioner was “stunned” that the UC Regents were the only ones to oppose the honor, going against the grain of 62 letters in support. People’s Park joined the National Register on May 24, seven months after the California State Historical Resources Commission unanimously supported that designation. That’s even though the UC Regents triggered People Park’s first uprising when they acquired the 2.8-acre site just east of University Avenue in 1967 with plans to build - student housing. More than half a century after it burst into the national scene as a hotbed of social dissent punctuated by sometimes violent Vietnam War protests, People’s Park has finally landed on the National Register of Historic Places.īut while the UC Berkeley-owned park is now deemed a historic resource worth preserving, the university isn’t changing its $312 million plan to build housing on the hallowed grounds for 1,100 university students and 125 homeless residents.
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