See designs for hotly debated North Berkeley BART housing

A rendering depicts the view along Acton Street of the proposed North Berkeley BART housing complex. Draft design standards for the project call for reducing its size along edges that face the neighborhood’s existing single-family homes. Credit: David Baker Architects, Yes Duffy Architects and Einwiller Kuehl Landscape Architecture
Published by Berkeley Side
September 2023

The public is getting its first look at renderings for 750 new homes, half of them affordable, at the BART station’s parking lot.

A housing advocacy group stirred up a social-media storm five years ago with its model of a 31-story apartment tower at the North Berkeley BART station. More recently, a neighborhood group that has pushed to limit development at the site mocked up a hulking set of 18-story housing blocks as it mobilized opposition to zoning rules that would have allowed high-rises there.

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