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A one-acre site owned by Alameda County by the Dublin-Pleasanton BART Station is being acquired by the city of Dublin for future affordable housing, after the City Council unanimously authorized seeking the transfer earlier this month.
“At this point there aren’t any plans in place, but the city intends the site to be used for an affordable housing project,” city spokesperson Shari Jackman told the Weekly after the Dec. 1 council meeting.
Located at the southeast corner of Iron Horse Parkway and Martinelli Drive, the parcel — known as Site D-1 — is part of a larger 2.4-acre property in the East Dublin Transit Center. The Surplus Property Authority of Alameda County currently holds the land title.
“Once the property is transferred from Surplus Property Authority to the city, we’ll likely request proposals from affordable housing developers and, once selected, they would go through the city’s entitlement process,” Jackman added.
A parking garage on the east side of the site is currently being designed through the General Services Agency, and will take up about half of the land. Approximately one acre of undeveloped land will remain on the west wide, along the Iron Horse Parkway frontage, when the garage’s design is finalized, at which point Site D-1 will be divided into two legal parcels.
Dublin officials requested via Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty “that the remaining one-acre parcel be utilized for an affordable housing project.”
Haggerty’s chief of staff Shawn Wilson said, “We had some discussions with the city of Dublin to see if they would be interested in building some sort of small affordable project, they were interested and we started to discuss how this would work. The city of Dublin asked us for the land and we obliged.”
Originally the county was “optimistic that BART would accept the free money that then-assemblymember Catharine Baker was instrumental in securing for a second Dublin parking garage,” Wilson said, including $20 million in grant funding.
After BART voted to not build the garage, “we then decided to work with our General Services Agency to construct and manage the parking garage,” Wilson added. “We have been working on the design and will hopefully begin construction soon.”
