A parking crunch at Berkeley High School that forced the school to turn several tennis courts into a parking lot, has left some of the players crying foul.
Three of the six courts on the corner of Milvia Street and Bancroft Way have been turned over to the faculty for parking. School construction, scheduled to begin this week, will be on the site of former parking, said Berkeley High Principal Frank Lynch.
With tennis season set to begin Monday, members of the team say they are upset with the way the school handled the situation. The push to add more parking comes with the construction of several new academic buildings at the school. A new physical education building, new administrative building and student center, removes faculty parking spaces, said Board of Education President Terry Doran.
The paving is only temporary say officials and will continue only until the construction is completed, which is expected to be in about three years.
However, that plan changed after a fire destroyed the B Building last year, forcing the school to install portable classrooms on the blacktop. In December, the board approved an interim parking plan which called for a request to the city for up to residential parking permits for faculty members to allow them to park full days on residential streets where non-residents are restricted to two-hour parking.
