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Official moderator announcement: The land use around North Berkeley Station is an affront to God
(hexbear.net)
They built a subway station in one of the worst housing markets in America and put surface parking on top of it. Bare minimum housing around the station should look like this:
Only reason it happened is because the state was about to pass a law that gave BART essentially total control over the land use of the parking stations. Until it became clear that law was coming down the neighborhood (home to infamous NIMBY Robert Reich) was basically unwilling to allow any housing. This development represents a compromise that came about before BART no longer needed to negotiate.
And of course, the rent collected will not be going to BART, but rather a private company.