The City of Berkeley is going tall in its latest effort to solve a severe shortage of student housing at UC Berkeley.
The Berkeley City Council voted unanimously this month to allow buildings as high as 12 stories in the densely populated Southside neighborhood adjacent to the university campus. The rezoning measure encompasses nearly 30 city blocks south of the UC Berkeley campus, according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Berkeley officials estimate that relaxing the height restriction in the area could permit another 2,652 homes to be built in the neighborhood bounded by Bancroft Way, Prospect Street, Dwight Way and Fulton Street.
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