Ninth Street Bikeway to connect Berkeley and Emeryville
On June 26, 2007, the Berkeley City Council voted unanimously to adopt an Ordinance authorizing the City Manager to execute all necessary documents required to purchase the real property known as the 9th Street Drill Track in southwest Berkeley from the Union Pacific Railroad Company for an amount not to exceed $3,008,590 including closing costs, and adopting a notice of exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act for the purchase and subsequent construction of a bicycle path and a Fire Department warehouse on the property.
This path is not part of the Santa Fe Right of Way, but we put in in the category for the SFRW because it is so similar 
June 28th, 2007 Web Weaver
Meet your neighbors and discuss ideas for the future of SFROW. Grad students from the Landscape Architecture department at UC Berkeley will present their visions.
With the recent dedication of the Santa Fe Right of Way (SF ROW) trail north of University, the time is ripe to complete the last 8-block segment of it to the south. BPFP has been a major advocate for this key open space for years. Now the Berkeley Community Gardening Collaborative (BCGC) is working with BPFP to plan for the transformation of SF ROW south to Sacramento and Oregon Streets for a pedestrian/bicycle pathway along with other community-serving activities (such as community gardening and playgrounds). We are conducting a survey in the surrounding blocks to get a picture of what residents would like to see. In early 2006 we’ll be submitting our recommendation to the Parks Commission to initiate the masterplan for this final segment of a multi purpose corridor that will link south Berkeley to the Ohlone Greenway – enabling people to connect all the way to Richmond! Call Beebo Turman of BCGC at 527-3773 for more information, or John Steere at 849-1969 to get involved.
