Developers submit North Berkeley BART housing proposal

The development team that wants to build a long-debated transit village with more than 700 homes atop the North Berkeley BART station’s parking lot has submitted its plans for city approval.

The project application calls for 13 mixed-use and residential buildings ranging from three to eight stories tall, spread across the eight-acre site and interspersed with nearly 50,000 square feet of redesigned public outdoor space. The plans, which the development team first detailed publicly last fall, also call for building a child care center and “community-serving retail” within the new neighborhood, along with a parking garage with 176 spaces for residents and another 120 spots for BART riders.