Feds Sue Berkeley Over Historic Zoning Overlay Ordinance.

August 29, 2016 at 4:51 pm.

In April, 2016, the Postal Service through the Department of Justice, threatened to sue Berkeley if Berkeley did not rescind the Historic District Zoning Overlay Ordinance, passed in September of 2014, that made most commercial uses of the zone (see right) – which includes the Post Office at 2000 Allston Way (8) – illegal.

This ordinance was passed in the middle of a four-year fight to save the downtown Berkeley Post Office from sale and privatization, begun in 2012 and ended, at least temporarily, by a Federal Judge’s decision in April of 2015.

On August 22nd, 2016, after the Berkeley City Council over the summer essentially refused – by neither formally replying to the DoJ threat letter nor voting to rescind the ordinance – the Postal Service carried through with their threat. (C.f. The actual complaint as a PDF: Complaint-08-22-16).

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