 | Ed Roberts Campus
Berkeley, CaliforniaAbstractThe Ed Roberts Campus (ERC) is a project to create a campus of buildings for nine disability service and policy organizations, other private or non-profit entities, and retail establishments over a mass transit parking lot in Berkeley, California. The project is highly innovative in the way it combines Transit Village concepts with good public policy and strong community support to transform an underutilized, urban, mass transit site into an attractive centerpiece for a revitalized community. The project will benefit the surrounding communities by turning an underused and desolate parking lot into a center of activity, and the San Francisco Bay Area region by increasing transit ridership, promoting infill development, and providing essential services in an efficient and accessible fashion. It will be an important model for transit-supportive development in other areas of the country. Populations affected: - People who are residents of the neighboring Berkeley/Oakland community.
- The disability community throughout the area served by BART.
- People with disabilities nationwide and internationally.
- Business people in the Berkeley/Oakland area.
- People from all over the bay area who participate in cultural, religious and other activities in the area.
- The 6,814 people who now use the Ashby BART station daily (1997 figures)
- People who work in disability research, service provision, law, public policy and advocacy
- Students and faculty at the region's universities.
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