Berkeley's Planning Commission met last month to make recommendations for the Objective Design Standards that City Council will establish for the housing project at North Berkeley BART. They incorporated the developers' requests to reduce required setbacks and requirements to break up the buildings, which would have reduced the number of homes that could be built. We applaud Planning Commission's recommendation, but City Council makes the final decision, and anti-development groups are organizing against this recommendation. We need to write letters and show up at Berkeley City Council on December 12th (mark your calendars!) to stand up for reasonable standards that will allow for more homes to be built. Again, the warnings about these meetings being interrupted by protesters may still apply for the meeting on the 12th.