- Deep Affordability and Anti-Displacement
- Residents emphasize truly affordable rent, pathways to homeownership, and right-of-return policies for displaced families and low-income individuals.
- Human-Scale and Welcoming Design
- Preferences for mid-rise, staggered buildings (e.g., 2-7 stories) with varied facades, warm materials, and layouts that encourage neighborly interaction.
- Livability and Accessibility
- Units should feature large windows, natural light, soundproofing, and universal design to accommodate seniors, families, and people with disabilities.
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There should be Black and community ownership of property, not just rentals.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Use public banks and mutual aid to fund the building of 100% affordable units for the unhoused or those at risk of becoming so.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There should be wrap-around services provided.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There must be legal protection.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Because of legal constraints, get people who experienced or whose ancestors experienced harm to apply for the designated housing.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There should be affordable and safe child care.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
It is time for developers to give back some of the money they have already made to make housing equitable.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Displaced Berkeley families should have the right to return and priority for affordable housing.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There should be inherited intergenerational affordable housing, not just for the head of household, to target the cycle of displacement.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Prioritize extremely low and low-income individuals for AMI.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Housing and apartments should be accessible via a lottery in enough numbers to satisfy the population until a better equitable system arises.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
If there is a hub, art live-work units should be above it.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Affordable housing units should be distributed throughout the development.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Prioritize applicants who were displaced from the neighborhood and prioritize free housing for those applicants.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
All units should be the same quality regardless of the rent.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
We need to fight for truly affordable housing.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Affordable housing preferences should apply to all units.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
The community has issues with the possible height of the buildings.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
We need housing that the people can afford.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Equity means affordable rent should equal 30% of income.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Make it all public housing.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
We must address people displacement.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There needs to be truly affordable rental housing.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There needs to be affordable housing for purchase.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
See if any dispossessed persons from South Berkeley are in any housing assistance programs, ensure funds are set in stone for equitable housing, and provide affordable housing for 99 years.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Provide real opportunities for people to own homes if they choose.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Put a rent cap in all contracts to keep it affordable.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There needs to be low-income housing.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Housing is a human right for people, not for profit.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There should be accessible, ADA-compliant, and green units.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Make the apartments large enough so that they feel like a welcoming place.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Sublease apartments for people who are descendants of the displaced.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
There should be a community center and daycare open from 5 AM to 9 PM with meals, where seniors can take care of kids.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
The development requires intelligent design.
Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#
Affordable homes should be made for those who need them the most and will stay around.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be security, accessibility, and affordability in housing, especially for Black and Native displaced communities, with the entire building kept affordable and run by the communities that fought for it, allowing stable families to thrive without worrying about rent, and maintained by hiring local people.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We must prioritize displaced families.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be new affordable homes for returning families of color, elders of color, and other families who need a home.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The housing preference policy is important to maintain South Berkeley's diverse population of different races, incomes, and ages, and ensuring this lasts for more than ten years is a mandate.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There needs to be more patio space and larger windows in the living rooms, and while the ADA unit size is okay, tenants should have separated kitchens and living rooms.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
I question whether having 600 homes is a goal and what the justification is for high-rise buildings beyond profit reasons.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Affordable housing residents should have large front porch areas on the first or second stories along quieter streets where they can greet neighbors, rather than just cafe tables that close early.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
I do not think these new developments are for low-income, immigrant, or working-class families, as the high prices exclude people of color with low salaries.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should avoid blank walls on the edges and maximize ground floor activity.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
A successful community design is needed.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We like the representative images B12 and B8.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The city cites my teaching garden for overgrowth, and the proposed 600-unit building will block my sunlight.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The rent needs to be made affordable.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Building tall to maximize apartment units changes the neighborhood's character and blocks the sky, as most surrounding buildings are only two or three stories.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Building tall to maximize apartment units changes the neighborhood's character and blocks the sky, as most surrounding buildings are only two or three stories.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be affordable rent, trees, plants, gardens, a playground, and a welcoming community atmosphere.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The buildings are too square and should have some roundness, especially in courtyards, along with balconies featuring flower and tree boxes.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
If tall buildings are built around the streets leaving room in the center, will there be enough space so people do not feel boxed in?
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We need affordable but high-quality mid-rise, spacious units with beautiful aesthetics, good maintenance, large windows, balconies, and a legacy of Black wealth and influence.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The design should be beautiful, open, colorful, well-landscaped, and welcoming.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Building tall to maximize apartment units changes the neighborhood's character and blocks the sky, as most surrounding buildings are only two or three stories.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The buildings should be no taller than four stories, feature windows and businesses, and have lots of light and open space. Tall block buildings make good targets, the times are changing, and there should be parking with solar and electric charging.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Natural light is very important, but using only glass material seems too sterile and exposed.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be tall buildings along Adeline and shorter buildings at Martin Luther King.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The buildings should not be overly tall, and the heights should be staggered throughout the project without any hulking towers. There should be nice outdoor space with greenery and places to sit and visit with neighbors.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be wood facades.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Have you considered indoor air quality, the ability to have fresh air windows, and natural sunlight?
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be sufficient space, and definitely not a high-rise building of more than five or six floors.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The proposed building is too big, not fit for anywhere in Berkeley, and 600 units is too many.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The buildings around here are stucco and wooden, and there should be no rats, shaded windows, and greenery or space for it.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Light is extremely important, so the buildings have to have bigger windows, and the square footage should feel like people have space to move.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be various building heights and step backs, and cultural elements with purple, metal, and accent colors to make it more dynamic.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be three-story townhouse-style buildings along MLK to face the houses there, and rounded buildings similar to the front of HBF.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The building size should be two to three stories maximum with no more than 200 units, and it should include garden space, play space for kids, outdoor exercise equipment, walking pathways, parking, laundry, community rooms open to neighbors, art installations by BIPOC artists, and lots of open green space.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The building feel should not be like CIL which did not become an active plaza, and Adeline is too grand with a street that is too wide.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be no big giant boxes, but rather a variation of height clusters with tall and short buildings.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be communal front porches and verandas on half of the facades where residents and neighbors can see the world go by.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The examples are too boxy and flat, so art, recessed windows, and details matter.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The buildings should be under four stories, 600 units is too many, and there should be greenery, parking, and health clinics.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
I would not want a big boxy building; different heights and variety are more pleasing, along with some interesting angles in the structures.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We should avoid boring designs, but they should not be interesting for no reason.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The building size should be two to three stories maximum with no more than 200 units, and it should include garden space, play space for kids, outdoor exercise equipment, walking pathways, parking, laundry, community rooms open to neighbors, art installations by BIPOC artists, and lots of open green space.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
Every single unit needs to be affordable, especially if it is more than four stories.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The height should complement what is already existing.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The design should be bright and light.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be a medical facility, pool, sauna, and hot tub access for the community, and buildings should not be put right next to each other.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We need to keep neighbors here with the opportunity to grow their future generations if they wish.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The design should not be too modern but should add character similar to what is existing, with beautiful design, openness, colors, landscaping, and a welcoming feel.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be safe, comfortable, and casual encounters with neighbors.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The walk from downtown Berkeley to South Berkeley should be made easier and more pleasant, with a mix of buildings so everything does not become cold and shadowed.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The development should be built for people with disabilities.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
While some older buildings are quaint, we need big street trees and quirky, interesting designs with a sense of discovery for higher density buildings.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The outer walkways on lower floors should be made wide enough to pull up chairs without blocking doors or wheelchairs.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The buildings should not be higher than seven stories with 80 units each to make it feel acceptable for the neighborhood.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
The focus should be on the street-level experience and Affordable Human-Scale taller buildings, avoiding flat, plain boxes by using a variety of materials.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be open walkways and warm, welcoming wood, but not huge open spaces on the bottom floor that are too overwhelming.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
There should be a terraced design with outdoor gardens on one level alternating with indoor living space on the next.
May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#
We need well designed buildings for seniors that have multiple places for social gatherings.
May 26 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Harriet Tubman Terrace#
We need apartment buildings that can accommodate pets and easily accommodate other animals for personal health.
May 26 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Harriet Tubman Terrace#
Seniors need a place where family members or other guests can come to visit that are not just in their apartments, but are in semi private social spaces that are throughout the building and throughout the entire site.
May 26 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Harriet Tubman Terrace#
Make sure there is a simple place for food, deliveries and other package deliveries for communities that often order food online and often order furniture or other necessities via the Internet
May 26 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Harriet Tubman Terrace#
Seniors are very, very vulnerable to even minimal rent increases or utility increases or maintenance fees or other types of additional fees because living on a fixed income is all we get. We need fries predictability for food, transport, rent, and all additional utilities and fees so that we can manage our financial futures.
May 26 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Harriet Tubman Terrace#
Sleep is essential to health and well-being and seniors, especially need apartments that provide a safe and quiet place to rest which includes windows that have soundproofing and are also insulated to save energy costs.
May 26 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Harriet Tubman Terrace#
In general, seniors need a little bit more free space to move in the public space and in the corridors and also need places to pause like handrails seats, and other design items that help them rest while in transit.
May 26 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Harriet Tubman Terrace#
The ground floors need to feel open and welcoming, not gated off.
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
The urban design needs to be welcoming and not just feel like massive housing.
Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Having natural daylight in every unit and space feels really important to us.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
The entire development needs to be fully accessible to everyone.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
We would like to see more single-family homes instead of just apartments.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
I prefer a design that has a more open-air look and feel.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
We would like to see a lot more housing on this parking lot.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
Mixed income housing is something that we believe this neighborhood needs.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
We want to make sure that new communities that are designed here are open un gated, welcoming and face the neighborhood in a friendly and human scale way.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
We need to make sure that the site is accessible and inclusive and allows space for young children, seniors, families, and teenagers alike.
Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#
When will finalized plans be open to the community output?
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Is there a consideration for any projects that will lead to home ownership?
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Will there be ownership opportunities for residents
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Stop making apartment that look like prisons. Incorporate design elements in line with historical homes of the bay
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
As long it is not "big blocks" but broken up in styles, the community will be so much more enjoyable
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Single Story
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Consider offering reduced rents to anyone who can demonstrate their family was displaced by the original development of the bart station and parking lot.
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Like Macarthur more housing taller
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Minimize the luxury units
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Housing needs to be for the LOW and VERY LOW incomes "affordable to whose standard"
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
More units
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Set back Building C to align facade with prince Street ( on board of local economy and cultural heritage)
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Must be actually affordable housing
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Extremely low income
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Consider floor level lighting to minimize resident light exposure
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Concerns around equity of low income housing
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Housing preference policy must include high priority for the people
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Create seperate buildings for open space
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Must be affordable
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Senior housing comes with supportive services
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Large points for African American who were displaced
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Very Low Very low income housing
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Preference policy for African Americans
Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#
Improve inner activity by adding balconies and operable windows.
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
How do we plan the MLK side?
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
Will we match housing?
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
Look toward the residential homes and incorporate them into the design.
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
Will the project have more larger or smaller unit types?
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
Tell us about the number of units ofr the project
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
Will factory built housing be used?
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
Check City standards for exterior surfaces.
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
Affordable housing at 60–80% AMI eliminates many people at 50% AMI.
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
Suggest affordability should not only serve the workforce.
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
Presenters should convey info in actual rent amounts (example noted: say $500–$800/month).
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
How much affordability? What AMI levels? Response references 50/50 mix and 60–80% AMI.
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
Raised the question on the amount of Project Based vouchers would be allowed. Developer noted: PBVs are a Housing Authority decision, City policy to be observed R2R/R2Stay, and RCD's commitment to affordability.
Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#
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