BERKELEY — Rules on minidorms and other group living accommodations were officially enacted Tuesday by the City Council, which also rejected a challenge to a five-story, 82-apartment mixed-use development on Blake Street.

The new rules for minidorms and other group living accommodations are intended to limit noise, trash, late-night partying, drunkenness and other unruly behavior.

The ordinance met strong objections from students as well as Councilman Kriss Worthington over proposed remedies, such as removal of some bedrooms after repeated violations, which they said amount to collective punishment of the innocent for the transgressions of a few. Worthington, who voted against approving the second reading of the ordinance, warned the remedy would have the additional effect of raising rents for future students.

The council also affirmed a decision by the Zoning Adjustments Board approving a five-story mixed-use development on Blake Street near Shattuck Avenue. An appeal contended the project would be out of scale with the surrounding low-density neighborhood.

The project, represented by Rhoades Planning Group, whose principal, Mark Rhoades, is a former Berkeley planning manager, is for 82 apartments, including from four to eight affordable units, two live/work units and ground floor-retail.

The council spent much of the meeting shuffling items around on the agenda, postponing many of them, and leaving viewers confused about some of the ones it voted on.

Among them was a plan by Worthington to prioritize goals of the city”s Comprehensive Housing Affordable Action Plan.

The plan, which contains some 27 short-, medium-and long-term goals, appeared headed for postponement to April 5, only to be taken up by the council later in the meeting after residents as well as Worthington and Councilman Max Anderson complained about repeated postponements of the matter since at least as far back as October.

The items cover a range of subjects such as financing, tenant protections, reduction of red tape, accessory dwelling units, rezoning to encourage affordable housing development, maintenance issues, and housing for seniors, students and homeless people.

The council ultimately voted to proceed with only two of the items: prioritizing the short-term regulation of short-term rentals and limiting the removal of rental housing units, and matching National Housing Trust Fund money.

Councilman Laurie Capitelli, in moving to only act on the two items, had noted that many of the 12 goals in the short-term category are already at various stages of implementation, including allowing more accessory units, letting nonprofit developers apply for predevelopment loans, and easing parking requirements to encourage affordable housing construction.

The council voted down a motion by Worthington to prioritize the remaining nine medium-term measures and five long-term measures.

During a break, several people in the audience said they assumed the rest of the package would come up on April 5. But City Clerk Mark Numainville said the matter was concluded now that the council took action.

Lurking as a subtheme throughout many of the discussions Tuesday was the city”s rapid gentrification. Anderson charged that issues backed by “Big Money” get fast-tracked while those of interest to the city”s less privileged residents, such as affordable housing, get postponed despite council members” proclamations of a housing crisis.

Berkeley is becoming “a city of dot-commers,” Anderson said.

“We”re going to become a gated community without gates,” he added. “Economic barriers are gates. They”re fortresses against the poor.”

Worthington noted the small number of affordable units in the Blake Street project — “at least four” on-site, according to a fact sheet from Rhoades Planning Group, with an additional four that could be opted out of via an in-lieu mitigation fee — and lamented that he had no legal basis to vote against the project.

“The City Council is handing out millions of dollars in candy to multimillionaire developers,” Worthington said.

Councilman Darryl Moore, on the other hand, chastised those who were “crying and whining” about the council not moving fast enough on affordable housing. Moore said he wished he had worn boots, for all the B.S. that had flowed during the discussion of the Rhoades project, which he lauded as sustainable and transit-oriented and a much-needed source of housing.

“The NIMBYism is just amazing,” Moore said.

Contact Tom Lochner at 510-262-2760. Follow him at Twitter.com/tomlochner.