Thursday, July 12, 2007
Unrelated
In a topic completely unrelated to efforts to sell Berkeley Iceland, folks are trying to landmark Berkeley Iceland. Let me stress that this has nothing to do with folks who just don't want to see Berkeley Iceland sold and repurposed, but can't buy it because they suck at getting money. Nothing at all.
But members of Save Berkeley Iceland, a community group formed to try to save the rink, said they believed the entire structure was worthy of landmark status because of its history and architecture.
"Berkeley Iceland is by far the most impressive building I've ever seen," said Priscilla Barton, who said she used to skate at the ice rink. "It's really a shame that if Berkeley Iceland is torn down or demolished. It's just a loss to Berkeley that you'll never recuperate." The fact that this is Save Berkeley Iceland is complete coincidence, by the way. It really is the most impressive building ever to grace the Earth.
Despite the rhetoric of all those folks saying that those evil developers were trying to "sneak in" provisions in Prop 90 last November, it actually wasn't a ridiculous overreach to include property value reduction in the protection of property from government. Here we have a city government looking to render a person's property completely unusable without offering compensation. It's not "eminent domain" only because the city doesn't have the fortitude to actually buy the properties it wants to see used in a particular way.
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