San Pablo Avenue Specific Plan (SPASP)
The community around San Pablo Avenue would like the San Pablo Avenue Specific Plan (SPASP) to be an attempt to transform the San Pablo corridor in Berkeley into a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly area and create a variety of housing types to meet different community needs. As it does on other commercial corridors like the Elmwood, North Shattuck, and Solano Avenue, the City Council proposes raising building heights, allowing for greater housing density than currently exists. However, comments by council members during meetings to discuss the SPASP indicate that market rate housing is the primary objective, there is very little interest in commercial development, and they have little interest in listening to their staff or the public. (See more details of the SPASP)