By Joe Garfoli : sfchronicle – excerpt

The thing to remember about Thursday’s protests seeking to save Berkeley’s People’s Park is that they’re not really just about saving People’s Park.

They’re more about saving an ideal. And here, the dwindling number of park preservationists has lost the plot. In all ways.

They refuse to acknowledge that Californians have become YIMBYs. Yes, even in Berkeley, long known as NIMBY central. Now, even “the man” in the last half-century of this saga — aka UC Berkeley — is on the side of the people. California desperately needs to build more housing. Scores of UC Berkeley students live in their cars or couch surf because of a lack of student housing. People’s Park is a place where the university plans to build housing for 1,100 students and supportive dwellings for roughly 100 homeless people, perhaps many of those who live there now… (more)

This guy is not a journalist. He is a plant. You can see what is the most flagrant use of media space to make blandly false statements. Almost as bad as the SFMTA PR hacks lying about a report they put out in September that shows a decrease in bikes and pedestricans on Valencia that was reported by two of their supporters. Now they claim there is a 50% increase and are berating their supporters!

What a two ring ciruse we have running our streets into the ground.