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University town, Berserkley, a poor man's paradise. You've heard Berkeley described that way before. It is also home, lots of little neighborhoods where peace and quiet is just a few blocks away from the college campus. The neighborhood thrives in diversity. There is no typical Berkeley resident, but

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community activists describe the folks this way: they are more social, politically aware, tolerant of each other's lifestyles. It is not the suburbs. It feels less transient to me. It feels like a real neighborhood. I mean, family, neighborhood. And um. It feels pretty self-contained. I mean, you

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can just walk to stores or places that you want to go without really having to go very far. What are you taking it for? Behind that struggling. For you to talk to. What's your name? Theo. The neighborhood is concerned about controlling its growth. At issue among the more than

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2 dozen neighborhood associations is a plan to limit stores and local shopping centers. The plan would rezone this area and allow only businesses that would serve the neighborhood like the grocery store, the pharmacy, the cleaners, but banks, restaurants, antique shops would have to take their case

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to the public and pass a hearing to be allowed to open. This neighborhood wants to preserve the flavor of village shopping, but there's another reason why they want the plan to go through, and that's this: traffic congestion. They want to see less cars, not more, around

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in the future. On the streets where you live, I'm Roberta Wong, News Center 4.