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The Ohlone Greenway Extension is a speculative project that looks to increase housing density in Berkeley. Adjacent to a residential neighborhood, an abandoned Santa Fe rail line cuts at a diagonal through the city. We propose to reclaim this land to create multi-family housing and a new greenway for all. We are proposing to reclaim the land to create multi-family housing and a new greenway for pedestrians and bicycles. The Ohlone Greenway is an existing 5-mile pedestrian and bicycle path in Berkeley that ends before the Santa Fe rail tracks begin. The Santa Fe tracks once carried train service in West Berkeley until the tracks became dormant in the 1970s. Over the years, voters in the city have passed a…

To re-claim unused outdoor space and support our community, we worked with the city of Berkeley on a Parklet Template, a webinar, and pro- bono design services. With the pandemic making outdoor space more valuable than ever, the abundant and unused outdoor space devoted to cars is counter to our values.  We believe that the public realm should contribute positively to our social, cultural, and economic experience.  Since restaurants have been so impacted by the pandemic induced shutdown, we used our design skills and construction connections to help them build outdoor seating.  As a low cost conversion of parking spaces into usable outdoor spaces, these Parklets are a positive response to the challenges of the Pandemic. To activate the streetscape…