A judge has ordered the University of California, Berkeley, to freeze next year’s enrollment at last year’s level and immediately pause an academic building and faculty housing project, citing potential negative effects on surrounding neighborhoods. In Tuesday’s decision, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brad Seligman sided with a group of residents living near the UC Berkeley campus. The neighbors brought the complaint in 2019, alleging that the university failed to take “significant environmental impacts” into account when developing its expansion plan, including displacement of tenants, more noise and trash, more traffic, and increased burdens on the City of Berkeley’s public safety services. “The judge has vindicated our efforts to hold UC Berkeley accountable for the severe impacts on our community from its massive enrollment increases which they made without public notice or comments,” said Phil Bokovoy, president of Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods, the group that sued. “UC Berkeley must now acknowledge …