After spending an estimated $500 on street sweeping tickets in Berkeley, a local developer decided he’d had enough.
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Motorists beware: Berkeley votes to expand parking enforcement
Council voted Tuesday night to ramp up parking enforcement by adding 15 automated license plate readers to the small pilot program it launched last year.
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Op-ed: Berkeley has a parking addiction
A host of regulations around off-street and on-street parking surround the development of new housing and the associated public discourse in Berkeley. Per Section 23E.28.140 of the Berkeley Municipal Code, any new development which reduces the amount of off-street parking must be guaranteed to not substantially reduce available on-street parking in its vicinity and satisfy […]
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Automated license plate readers will help parking availability but some express concern about privacy issues
New parking meters with credit card payment options are part of the goBerkeley program. Photo: Steer Davies Gleave/goBerkeley Berkeley has launched a program to use a controversial technology that automatically reads license plates on cars to optimize and enforce parking, part of a larger effort to encourage more Berkeley residents not to drive. The program, […]
Posted inHousing & Development
Center Street garage to close June 30
The new Center Street garage is slated to be complete by fall 2017. Image: Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects The new Center Street garage is slated to be complete by fall 2017. Image: Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects Berkeley’s Center Street garage is set to close at the end of the month to make way for a modern, new garage […]
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Critics question impacts of ‘Spenger’s parking lot’ project on Berkeley Fourth Street, Ohlone heritage
A rendering of what 1900 Fourth St. may one day look like. Image: TCA Architects Berkeley community and zoning board members had a chance Thursday to weigh in on what the environmental impact report for a large mixed-use project planned for 1900 Fourth St. should focus on. The “Spenger’s parking lot” project has been in the […]
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Berkeley wins $1M parking grant to fix ‘2-hour shuffle’
Berkeley is looking to improve the “parking experience” in residential neighborhoods. Photo: Chris Makarsky Berkeley is looking to improve the “parking experience” in residential neighborhoods. Photo: Chris Makarsky A Berkeley plan to improve residential parking woes won a $1 million grant this week from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to help the city continue its goBerkeley pilot program for […]
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Construction to begin on 8-story building in downtown
Berkeley Way West as it will be seen from Shattuck Avenue. Photo: WRNS Studio/UC Berkeley By Yasmin Anwar/Berkeley News Construction is scheduled to begin this month on an 8-story complex in downtown Berkeley to house the campus’ Graduate School of Education, School of Public Health and the Department of Psychology. The 320,000-square-foot building at Berkeley Way and […]
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Op-ed: Berkeley’s 72-hour parking limit is outdated, discriminatory and needs to go
It felt great to return to Berkeley recently after two weeks in Brazil without robberies, accidents or mishaps. But when we arrived just blocks from our home, we were greeted with an unsavory welcome: Our cars had vanished from the North Berkeley street where we parked them. They hadn’t been stolen. They had been towed. […]
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Berkeley plans ‘very efficient garage that people will be happy to come to’
Designs are coming along for an updated Center Street garage. Image: Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects As plans proceed for an updated municipal garage on downtown Berkeley’s Center Street, project details are firming up, and the plan for where people can expect to park while construction is underway has been released. The city is planning to demolish its […]
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City looks to continue goBerkeley parking program
A goBerkeley parking meter. City staff are recommending continuing the program, which targets high-use parking areas and uses demand pricing to encourage transit use, biking, and walking. Photo: Steer Davies Gleave/goBerkeley City Manager Christine Daniel has asked the Berkeley City Council to continue the goBerkeley parking program, which adjusts rates in high-demand commercial neighborhoods, for six more […]
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ZAB to downtown garage developer: Step up your game
A rendering of the upgraded Center Street garage. The Zoning Adjustments Board was critical of the plan, saying it was not ambitious enough. Image: Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects Berkeley zoning board members told the developer of the Center Street garage overhaul at a project preview session last week that they want him to go above and beyond the submitted plans […]
