Community Engagement and Inclusive Process

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1. We need to practice deep listening.

   Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

2. The community has to be involved in every step of the developer's building operations.

   Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

3. We should go door-to-door to ask South Berkeley residents for their input.

   Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

4. We should explore ideas without the expectation of fixing things.

   Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

5. Public funding should be allotted to survey community demographics and needs.

   Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

6. Create a communications plan to reach people whose families were displaced from this area.

   Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

7. Train community members to be involved in operations and decision-making after construction.

   Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

8. Make avenues open for feedback and input that are inclusive of and prioritize houseless and low-income neighbors.

   Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

9. We should get to know and talk to our neighbors to build community.

   Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

10. We should attend council meetings, voice our stories, use word of mouth, and conduct social media and street outreach.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

11. We as a community need to be active participants in the future stages of the development, and I hope for constant updates.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

12. There needs to be honest dialogue.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

13. Keep asking this question in the community over time as democratically as possible.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

14. There should be a variety of types of communication and engagement.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

15. We should keep the community clean and up to date, focus on the interests of the community, and keep communication up to date to inform the community.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

16. New students coming into the Berkeley area to live need to know what to expect.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

17. We need to have meetings and discuss what everyone wants for the neighborhood.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

18. The Black South Berkeley Community needs to be involved in the decision making, idea generation, and construction process before, during, and after ongoing development.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

19. Have someone take notes and record what was done at the meeting.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

20. We need to meet with the housing developers.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

21. We need to take care of each other as neighbors, like in the old days.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

22. We need a community press and flyers to hand out to inform the community about the process and updates.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

23. There should be plenty of meetings for people to speak their voice and for the city and BART to hear.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

24. We need to spread the word among neighborhood associations.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

25. We all need to get involved and not be passive.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

26. The attention should be on the whole neighborhood.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

27. We need to say hello to each other and build cross-coalition relationships.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

28. We need to listen to the communities that are most affected.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

29. I want to know why I should be hopeful about this project.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

30. Developers should be present in the breakout sessions.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

31. There should be training classes available.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

32. Make sure input channels are accessible to disabled, unhoused, and elderly neighbors.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

33. Center the voices of African American members of the South Berkeley community.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

34. Make sure Black residents are present and speak at any community meetings about the project.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

35. BART needs to acknowledge the harm it has caused.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

36. There must be Black leadership at every stage of the process.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

37. Those who are most affected by the displacement, such as the unhoused and those who were displaced, need to be at the core of this development.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

38. We need to power and activate change through voting and democracy, prioritizing equitable, multigenerational, and community-oriented development.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

39. In a historically Black working-class community, any development must include the voice of present residents and an intergenerational partnership working together for mutual growth.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

40. The project should be for the people, not for profit.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

41. The process must be inclusive of Black voices, leadership, ideas, needs, and wants.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

42. We need people who really want and care about equity.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

43. Provide free access to community resources at the development for Berkeley residents.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

44. People with the most money and privilege should step back and listen.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

45. What can the developer do to ensure equitable development?

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

46. We need better school sizes for growing families and better information provided to current residents.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

47. Pass a city or county-wide policy that requires approval from a community-run people's assembly.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

48. Create a community-selected board to review and approve all plans and changes based on community feedback.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

49. Create and pass a people's budget that allocates funds towards community needs.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

50. Allot public funding to maintain a people's council.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

51. We need updates from the administrator budget.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

52. We must hold those in charge accountable.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

53. We need great leadership from people who have done this before and lived here.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

54. There must be persistent and focused community pressure on developers and elected officials, replicating the Dudley Street project model from Boston.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

55. Everyone needs to vote.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

56. The development must be purpose-driven and community-focused.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

57. There must be honest implementation of what the community stakeholders say they want, not what is forced on them.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

58. There needs to be transparency in information and intent.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

59. We need to boldly change policies and vote for more equitable ones.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

60. There should be a community oversight commission.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

61. We will never see it until it is closed.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

62. The neighborhood must fully approve of the development.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

63. There must be true oversight of the developer after the project is completed.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

64. Give the power of decisions to local residents and small business owners.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

65. There should be an accessibility community advisory board, but appointed boards do not work.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

66. We need honest decision-makers.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

67. There needs to be transparency regarding the financial impact.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

68. We need to stand up to the city council and big developers together.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

69. Create a registry of people who have been displaced in their or previous generations to contact them for input.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

70. Do not kick anyone else out, and give homes back to families who were displaced.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

71. Locate family members who were or are affected by this displacement.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

72. Locate family members who were or are affected by this displacement.

    Mar 13 · Community Education Session · Lemat Restaurant#

73. The developer, BART, and Berkeley can keep their promises by publicly stating them in writing based on community priorities, maintaining regular and transparent communication, and creating ways to help people buy their own homes and build financial wealth.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

74. There must be honest communication about economics and tradeoffs to set realistic expectations while inspiring visionary thinking.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

75. Community organizations such as CIL, BORP, Berkeley Center for the Blind, La Pena Community Arts, Black Rep, Shotgun Players, Berkeley Flea Market, Resource Tool Library, and the South Berkeley Senior Center should be included.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

76. Building relationships with various organizations connected to Berkeley and South Berkeley will provide insights that bring about an intersection of strategic ideas and solutions.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

77. I would feel trust if the developers and the city came to us and implemented our ideas.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

78. Trust is built when community promises are kept through ongoing engagement, proof of listening, and resolving community needs by applying them to the development.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

79. We should survey community members, host street celebrations like Juneteenth to bring current and former neighbors together to share information, and gather data on who lives here, how long they have stayed, and what skills they bring.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

80. There should be saturated outreach to all residents within a 0.15-mile radius of Ashby BART using multilingual flyers, door-to-door canvassing, and social media, as well as a gathering space like the Flea Market for people to share resources and sell items.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

81. The city has a bad history of keeping promises, where people with power make things happen while powerless people fight only to get disappointed.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

82. We need an environment that grows, welcomes everyone, and does not deteriorate.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

83. We need more opportunities to be involved with the community.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

84. We need to understand how we activate the community.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

85. We should encourage small interactions and random moments to say hello.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

86. I passed out flyers for a South Berkeley Neighbors BBQ and met two women who told me they were without steady housing.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

87. We should engage and include youth intergenerationally, ensure the Black community has a strong stake, feature murals and placards with neighborhood heroes, and have a lot of programming like gardens, bikes, lectures, and cooking classes.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

88. We need to see community leaders explicitly involved in the planning stage, with the planning committee adding several seats for community organizations and leaders.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

89. Black people are missing from the process, and we need all of it.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

90. The Martin Luther King frontage should maximize community interaction.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

91. There should be free music concerts, a fix-it clinic, and one-day craft classes to bring the community out.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

92. We should create a space for small conversations where youth can speak to non-youth about what could make their lives better and their dreams come true.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

93. We should have Black residents by making paperwork easier, have affordable produce stores, maintain clean spaces, and keep teens and kids engaged in community-led activities and after-school programs.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

94. Access and resources are currently not good and need to be improved.

    May 12 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Healthy Black Families#

95. Seniors need social spaces where they can gather, but also experience performances and other events such as guest performers or resident performers.

    May 26 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · Harriet Tubman Terrace#

96. We need the ability to organize the people.

    Jun 13 · Community Listening · Berkeley Flea Market#

97. There should be community inclusion.

    Jun 13 · Community Listening · Berkeley Flea Market#

98. There should be teen and family programming.

    Jun 13 · Community Listening · Berkeley Flea Market#

99. The design should accommodate all the people walking through the BART station.

    Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#

100. The Objective Design Standards (ODS) have led to ugly buildings due to too many rules.

     Jun 20 · Community Listening and Design Visioning · South Berkeley Senior Center#

101. We envision a bustling center with safe streets and a community center that offers tutoring.

     Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#

102. There should be a place for older folks in the community to help run community centers.

     Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#

103. Berkeley takes pride in its city, so there should be more community outreach events.

     Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#

104. The project should allow displaced residents to reintegrate into the community.

     Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#

105. We need places for teens to hang out indoors and programs that support teens too.

     Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#

106. We love South Berkeley because it is so mixed Race and has been so diverse.

     Jun 21 · Community Listening · Juneteenth Festival#

107. Create an African American Preference Policy

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

108. Homeless Housing

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

109. Farmers Market Needed

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

110. Tutoring Center Within one of the buildings (This comment was located on building C on the board of local economy , cultural heritage)

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

111. Create open spaces designated for African Americans

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

112. Where do children play?

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

113. How soon will info be posted online?

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

114. Consider a public call for local art projects and sculptures and make community members vote for what is installed

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

115. Look up induced Demand

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

116. I'm okay with less bart parking

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

117. Prioritize Community not bike lane

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

118. No cycle track, it is a small group of people, prioritize the community

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

119. This sucks move it (comment pointed to future bart staging area on the board of local economy , cultural heritage)

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

120. People in the community must have equal preference

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

121. Swing Sets?

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

122. Where is the playground or dog park?

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

123. We need a children play space

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

124. Push back the entrance on mlk jr way where the blue arrow is by A2 and B2 ( on board of local economy and cultural heritage)

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

125. Open up building A1 ( this coment is connected to the community facing on adeline street plaza)

     Jul 16 · Community Open House · South Berkeley Senior Center#

126. Has input been made to the ODS? can Suggestions be submitted by the community on the ODS?

     Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#

127. Community questions: they want actual amendments into the ODS.

     Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#

128. Is the Planning Commission planning to finalize the ODS by September? Response noted by the city : Yes.

     Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#

129. City noted they will take community input.

     Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#

130. Community Suggested more time for public feedback.

     Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#

131. Can the community present directly to Berkeley? City Response: Google Form or email Alisa directly.

     Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#

132. Project should be a great service to the community.

     Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#

133. Would like more information on upcoming meetings

     Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#

134. Work with Lighthouse for the Blind; wants more info on meeting date and time.

     Jul 22 · Community Open House Office Hours · Zoom Call#

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