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This whole Trade Joe’s thing just never seems to die.
About a month or so after the Berkeley City Council “finally approved” the Trader Joe’s project, to be on the corner of University Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, residents near the proposed site “are ready to file suit”:http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/ci_6550026 to try to prevent its development.
You know, after 14 public hearings and five years of idling in purgatory, sometimes enough is enough.
Hopefully this will just be the last little hurdle that this project must endure–whether or not Trader Joe’s gets built.
And of course, the concern with the Trader Joe’s is exactly the same—traffic.
bq. “It’s too big, it’s bigger than it should be,” said Wollmer, who lives on Berkeley Way next to the project site. “It’s going to make traffic and parking chaos in our neighborhood for anyone who travels along University or MLK during peak shopping periods. Everybody knows it’s laughable.”
Laughable? We’ll show you laughable.
In a city trying to bring businesses in to help revitalize an old, run-down city, it’s pretty laughable to see that the residents are the ones trying to stop this revitalization movement.
Berkeley needs projects like this. The city probably needs another grocery store as much as that guy on Telegraph Avenue needs more weed or as much as Oren Gabriel needs student fees to pay for his lawyer.
But the city and especially the residents need to understand that if the community doesn’t welcome these new projects, then the city will just become dirtier and more run-down than it already is.
And we’re pretty sure when 2010 comes around—which is ETA for the opening of the new Trader Joe’s—that most, if not all residents, will welcome the arrival of the Two-Buck Chuck.
Earlier: “Two-Buck Chuck Makes Its Way to Berkeley”
Berkeley residents to sue city, Trader Joe’s [Tri-Valley Herald]
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