Politics & Government
Public Comment on Berkeley Lab, Voices to Vision 2
Scroll through the photographs to see some of what speakers had to say Sept. 19, 2011, during the public comment period of Monday's City Council meeting related to development at Golden Gate Fields.
The voted Monday night to create a task force to study the future of Golden Gate Fields. .
Nineteen people spoke during the public comment period about the idea of a proposed development at the current racetrack site, which could include the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's second campus. The vast majority spoke against the idea of development at the track, asking for more open space and expressing suspicion about the intentions of racetrack owner the Stronach Group.
Captions include paraphrases, unless quotation marks appear.
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Watch the meeting on KALB 33 here. The Golden Gate Fields discussion began at about 9:45 p.m.
Read more about the process for selecting the proposed second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Albany Patch here.
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