The University of California, Davis, released the following statement today (Sept. 28) regarding a lawsuit in connection with the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û×ßÊÆͼ West Village Expansion:
We are perplexed and profoundly disappointed by AFSCME’s California Environmental Quality Act lawsuit related to the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û×ßÊÆͼ Long Range Development Plan. We have previously made a series of generous offers to AFSCME that would have benefited °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û×ßÊÆͼ’ represented service workers and enabled °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û×ßÊÆͼ’ housing projects to move forward. Despite agreement that more student housing is a benefit to all, AFSCME’s suit will likely prevent °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û×ßÊÆͼ from building affordable student housing in the near term.
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Melissa Blouin, 530-752-2542, mlblouin@ucdavis.edu