Bay Area

Petaluma-based Eames Institute, the new owners of the former Birkenstock campus, plan to launch an art and design museum there.

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Earlier: https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/bart-service-stopped-on-sf-line-due-to-fire-20785151.php

State law bars police from sharing data from automated license plate readers with federal agencies. They're doing it anyway.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/3496521

Got out to the SF MoMA yesterday and finally got to see the Yayoi Kusama installation. It's a trip and pretty awesome. I had the place to myself and got to inhabit this 96-year-old Japanese lady's mind for 90 seconds (they time the entries, you could go back though). It's on til August, so glad I went! Also one of my favorite exhibits is back on til August on the same floor, Ragnar Kjartansson's The Visitors.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32229456

Berkeley has officially ended single-family only zoning and legalized multifamily housing citywide!!!

Passing early this morning, Berkeley legalized duplexes, quadplexes, and small apartments across the city, effectively eliminating single-family zoning.

It took 6 years. 6 fucking years.

Thank you to the housing expert Jordan Grimes.

Props to the activist Sam Greenberg who showed up with this sign:

Thank you to the Nobel-Prize winning physicist who wrote a letter to the Berkley Council:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/439f2266-ca6d-4a6d-b03c-ed0e12922f2a.jpeg

This is a WIN for housing in the Bay Area 🥳🥳🥳

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