A new California law could help alleviate the Bay Area's lack of affordable housing. On July 1, most Bay Area cities with BART stations must submit a plan to begin allowing development on those properties.
LAFAYETTE – A new California law could help alleviate the Bay Area’s lack of affordable housing. On July 1, most Bay Area cities with BART stations must submit a plan to begin allowing development on those properties.
Dwane Kennedy is President of CityShapers, an urban design consulting company. He didn’t expect the process to be easy. There has been pushback to the law, especially in suburban communities like Lafayette. The City Council is making plans to change the zoning of the BART parking lots to allow future development and at Monday night’s meeting, Councilmember Susan Candell expressed the sentiments of her constituents.“Most everybody has kind of the same vision in their head,” she said. “The people that I’ve spoken to are thinking, ‘three stories, you know, nothing too inconsistent with the rest of our town.
“The intention there is you have two big BART parking lots for BART,” he said. “It takes cars off the streets and the freeways going into San Francisco. Cannibalizing it, taking that parking space, means that…how do people get to BART in the first place?”
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