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By 2002, Pleasant Hill had the most parking spaces of any BART station, with 3,398 spaces in a garage and surface lots. [8]: 12 A BART plan released that year proposed expansion of the paid fare lobby and the platforms. [8]: 38 Seismic retrofitting of the parking garage took place in 2008–2009. [9]
A new proposal in 2010 would study only the merger of Kitchener and Waterloo, with a public referendum on whether the idea should be looked into. Kitchener residents voted 2–1 in favour of studying the merger while Waterloo residents voted 2–1 against. Waterloo city council voted against the study. [70]
Kitchener is located in Southwestern Ontario, in the Saint Lawrence Lowlands. This geological and climatic region has wet-climate soils and deciduous forests. Situated in the Grand River Valley, the area is generally above 300 m (1,000 ft) in elevation. Kitchener is the largest city in the Grand River watershed and the Haldimand Tract.
With average weekday ridership around 165,000 passengers in June 2024, BART is the fifth busiest rapid transit system in the United States. [1] [2] BART is administered by the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a special district government agency formed by Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco counties.
Some 41% of those parking at the station were from Santa Clara County, outside the BART district, for which Fremont was the nearest station. The expansion plans were slowed by BART board politics about who should pay for such projects. [22] The board ultimately approved the plan to add 361 spaces in November 1975. [23]
The electoral district was created as part of the 1996 redistribution of provincial ridings to have the same borders as federal ridings, and first contested in 1999 general election. It consisted initially of the City of Waterloo and the part of the City of Kitchener lying north of a line drawn from west to east along Highland Road West ...
Construction of a 450-space BART parking garage at the southern end of the site began in mid-2011; it opened on September 15, 2014. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] A 90-unit residential building was constructed in 2013–2016, followed by a 385-unit residential complex with 33,000 square feet (3,100 m 2 ) of retail space constructed in 2015–2020.
In September 2018, the BART Board selected a developer for transit-oriented development on BART-owned land around the station. [17] On September 8, 2022, the board approved plans for a 457-unit residential development to replace the station parking lot. [18] The parking lot closed on September 16, 2024, to allow construction to begin. [19]