A state appeals court judge has tentatively blocked University of California at Berkeley from building housing on People’s Park, according to the judge’s ruling last month.

In California’s First District Court of Appeals, Judge Teri Jackson sent the case back to Alameda County Superior Court, telling the university’s regents to set aside its certification of the environmental impact report for the $312 million project.

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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.