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Members of Berkeley’s Zoning Adjustments Board approved the use permits that would allow construction of the David Brower Center on the city’s Oxford Street parking lot. Bob Allen was the only member who voted against the permits for the two-building complex. Allen said he would support what was otherwise “a wonderful project from the ground…

  Planning Commissioners Thursday voted unanimously to ask the City Council to amend the Berkeley’s Downtown Plan to allow construction of the David Brower Center complex. Two buildings will rise above the site of the city’s Oxford Plaza parking lot along the west side of Fulton Street between Kittredge Street and Allston Way, and a…

Planning Commissioners sang the praises of the proposed David Brower Center Wednesday night, but city planning staff wondered just how they could fit the complex into existing city zoning laws downtown. In another case, commissioners were forced to accept a condo project where the developer had figured out a way around the city’s inclusionary housing…

They came, they saw, they liked. Berkeley’s Design Review Committee got its first look at plans for the David Brower Center and the accompanying affordable housing project Thursday and gave both a resounding seven thumbs up. It was the four-story Browe r Center—designed to be one of the world’s “greenest” buildings—that drew the most extravagant…

The “greenest” building complex in the Bay Area would sprout from an old parking lot in downtown Berkeley as a memorial of sorts to David Brower, the pioneering environmentalist who died four years ago, under plans expected to be approved tonight. The $47 million center would have solar generators and other energy- efficient equipment and…

  To honor the legacy of Berkeley-born environmentalist David Brower, architects of the complex that will bear his name are using state-of-the-art “green” building techniques, while next door on the site, affordable housing developer Resources for Community Development (RCD) is employing the most innovative financing plan Uncle Sam has to offer. To fund 96 units…