Ashby BART

HBF, a public health grassroots organization dedicated to building a thriving Black community in Berkeley, focuses on housing, health and birth equity and the promotion of healthy foods and beverages. 

BART and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, or SFMTA, will receive $386 million of federal funding as part of the American Rescue Plan, or ARP.

The Berkeley planning commission voted to recommend 12 story zoning for Ashby and North Berkeley BART at their meeting Wednesday.

Berkeley City Council recently approved a $53 million investment in building affordable housing around the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations.

The Adeline Corridor Specific Plan, which outlines the next 20 years of development in a South Berkeley area near Ashby BART station, was approved by Berkeley City Council on Tuesday after about six years of planning.

On Monday evening, two of the three candidates in the District 3 Berkeley City Council race discussed their platforms during a virtual town hall hosted by BridgeUSA at Berkeley and the ASUC Office of the External Affairs Vice President.

Berkeley residents participated Tuesday in a student-organized demonstration for Black liberation, which ended with a march and candlelight vigil for victims of police brutality in the Berkeley Hills.

BART was awarded $2.7 million in grant funding to pursue construction of affordable housing units at the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations.

Eighty-six units of housing near Ashby BART station, which will be affordable for people making 20-60% of the Area Median Income, were approved to be implemented.

Berkeley City Council conducted a public hearing for a Zoning Adjustments Board, or ZAB, appeal and approved free showers for the homeless and a budget referral to increase safety at San Pablo Park at Tuesday’s regular meeting.