Ashby BART Station and North Berkeley BART Station Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Zoning Standards Project

Ashby BART Station and North Berkeley BART Station Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Zoning Standards Project

The proposed Project involves updating the City’s zoning standards at the station sites to comply with AB 2923. The zoning at the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations will primarily permit housing, but will also likely permit other non-residential uses such as retail, community-serving uses and civic spaces. The proposed Project would also constitute an update to the General Plan and potentially require changes to the Adeline Corridor Specific Plan (if adopted prior to the adoption of the BART TOD zoning). The proposed Project does not involve any specific development projects, but rather consists of land use and policy changes that could encourage new development. AB 2923 assumptions outlined above will be used to analyze potential environmental impacts of development that could be encouraged by the land use regulation changes in the proposed Project. At the Ashby BART station, the EIR will evaluate the impact of up to 1,200 dwelling units and 50,000 square feet of nonresidential space that would be constructed, distributed between the 4.4 acre station site and the 1.9-acre surface parking lot east of the Ed Roberts campus. At the North Berkeley BART station, the EIR will evaluate the impact of up to 1,200 dwelling units, as well as 25,000 square feet of non-residential space, located on the main 8.1 acre station site. The three auxiliary lots located northwest of the station along the Ohlone Greenway are not anticipated to include any new development. Per the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between BART and the City of Berkeley, and due to their location directly above the underground BART right of way, it is anticipated that these lots would include only surface infrastructure enhancements.

Berkeley

Alameda

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Marin Region 7 (CDFW), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 2 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Department of Toxic Substances Control, Office of Historic Preservation, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT)

California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT)

Residential (Units 2,400), Commercial (Sq. Ft. 75,000)

General Plan Amendment, Rezone, Zoning Standards

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Economics/Jobs, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire, Wildlife