An Alameda County judge has ruled that the University of California at Berkeley can build housing on People’s Park, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Judge Frank Roesch on Friday denied the petitions by three groups including two citizen groups following three and a half hours of testimony in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.