Housing pipeline: As built units and affordable ones grow, more work remains
Since 2014, there have been 1,022 housing units built, across 17 projects, according to the latest "housing pipeline" report issued by the city. About 842 units, in 15 projects, are expected to be done...
View ArticleDowntown Berkeley’s Logan Park wins zoning board approval Thursday night
Logan Park, an eight-story, 204-unit mixed-use housing project slated for downtown Berkeley, is one step closer to breaking ground after the zoning board approved its use permit Thursday night.
View ArticleFormer Berkeley school to become 50,000-square-foot home, artist colony
Neighbors are pleased a Finnish tech entrepreneur-turned-artist is improving the site, but some are worried about continued public access.
View Article101 units at San Pablo, Hearst approved at former Berkeley Midas site
A six-story, 101-unit project proposed in Berkeley at San Pablo and Hearst avenues won near-unanimous approval Thursday night from the zoning board.
View ArticleNeighbors fight proposed Verizon cell site in North Berkeley — again
A group of local residents celebrated three years ago when plans for a Verizon cell site in their neighborhood were dropped. Now, many of them are back at it.
View Article‘A mini-urban miracle,’ new Berkeley homeless housing could be model for the...
It's been a big week for subsidized housing in Berkeley. And it just got bigger.
View ArticleWith split vote, Berkeley zoning board approves new ‘group living’ project
A 41-unit "group living" project called Poet's Place was approved Thursday night by a Berkeley zoning board majority.
View ArticleProposed development near Aquatic Park could bring in 1,600 workers
Two developers, working in conjunction with the Jones family who own the land, want to build two Class A R&D buildings.
View ArticleBerkeley seeks residents’ help to simplify zoning documents
Berkeley's zoning rules are complicated and daunting to the average reader. The city wants to make it easier to understand the laws.
View ArticleBerkeley will soon be home to a major research and development center
Developers will construct two modern buildings and add a strolling path with native plants along Bolivar Drive by Aquatic Park.
View ArticleRemembering Gene Poschman, master of Berkeley’s Zoning Code, savior of...
Poschman was chair of Cal State Hayward's Academic Senate and served for decades on Berkeley's Zoning Adjustments Board and Planning Commission. He also helped scuttle an EBRPD plan to reduce off-leash...
View ArticleBerkeley man takes spa spat to City Council, hoping to drain neighbor’s hot...
Concern about "jolly hot tubbers whooping it up over a long soak" drive a months-long battle in the city where the Jacuzzi was born.
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