UC Berkeley will be able to continue construction of student and low-income housing at People’s Park after the state Supreme Court culminated a yearslong legal battle in the university’s favor this week. 

The Thursday ruling considered two provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act at issue in the lawsuit against the university brought by The People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group and Make UC A Good Neighbor. They argued that UC Berkeley should have considered the potential for student noise as an environmental impact in their analysis of the housing project, and that alternative sites should have been more fully explored. 

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Riley is an intern at Bay City News through the Dow Jones News Fund. She is a rising senior at the UC Berkeley, where she studies political science and journalism. Previously, she was the university news editor at her student newspaper The Daily Californian, overseeing coverage of student government elections, a new chancellor and the Gaza solidarity encampment. She enjoys reporting on politics, housing and homelessness — and using as many em dashes as her editors will allow.