More housing near the Expo Line and other California transit stations

Re:More housing near the Expo Line and other California tran... by closeparen on Thursday January 04, 2018 @05:57PM (#16074905)

822 parking spaces at N. Berkeley. Are they really going to build “way more” housing units?

Not that many people live in reasonable walking distance of the suburban commuter stations; building on the parking won’t really change that. I would love it, though, if we could radically upzone the whole area for a mile around.

Walking for half an hour to work is great. Walking for half an hour just to get to your train is no way to live.

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Re:More housing near the Expo Line and other California tran... by ak217 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:10PM (#16074977)

Look at the map. Six city blocks at North Berkeley and 2-3 at Ashby. You could easily put 2000+ new units there if you get past the NIMBYs. Most other stations in the East Bay already have all adjacent lots spoken for with (relatively) high density development (Lafayette and Orinda being the notable, also NIMBY driven exceptions).

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Re:More housing near the Expo Line and other California tran... by ebikelaw on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:09PM (#16074976)

It's an 8-acre site. At that height I'm sure they could figure out how to get 100 dwellings per acre, and that works out to something near 2000 occupants. A parking space at a BART station produces fewer than two rides per day, while a housing unit within half a mile of BART produces more than four rides per day.

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