Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

Creating a Better Future for our City

Created by the

Vision 2050 Task Force

November 2019

Parallel Online WORKING DRAFT : 1 August 2019

Berkeley Underground: Where your real money goes, never to be seen again

This report is about Berkeley’s flows of people, water, power, goods, information, and money. This is the infrastructure for those flows.

Three Overlapping Entities Build Berkeley Infrastructure

  • City of Berkeley:
    • streets, sidewalks, sewers, lights, parks
  • Residents, Businesses, and Institutions of Berkeley
    • Homes, Businesses, Schools, Churches, University, Government
  • Outside Berkeley Resouce Network
    • EBMUD, PG&E, Comcast, Sonic, ATT, Commmunity Power
    • Water pipes to Sierra Mountains; Electrical transmission lines to major grid generation sources; sewer pipes to EBMUD treatment center

      In the Berkeley Free Speech tradition, this draft is published for comment, suggestion, and editing in a new format: JupyterBook format