What is TOD?
Transit-oriented development (TOD) is well-designed, mixed-use, higher-density development adjacent to frequent transit. It helps communities and transit agencies increase sustainable transit ridership, revitalize communities, enhance regional quality of life, and strengthen economic competitiveness. By focusing housing and jobs near transit, communities can accommodate new growth while minimizing associated congestion and environmental impacts.
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To sign up for updates from the BART TOD program, including solicitations for developers, visit BART's online Profile Center at cloud.info.bart.gov/signup; enter your info in steps 1 and 2; then under "Other" in step 3, check the Transit Oriented Development Projects box.
August 29, 2024: We are pleased to present the BART Transit-Oriented Development Program Work Plan: 2024 Update (2024 TOD Work Plan Update). It identifies five-year increment timeframes for advancing identified BART sites to developer solicitation and overrides BART’s Transit-Oriented Development Program Work Plan, Public Draft: August 2020 (2020 TOD Work Plan).
Board-Adopted Policies Guiding TOD
BART’s TOD Program is guided by the following Board-adopted policy documents:
Project Stabilization Agreement Policy for Transit-Oriented Development
Labor Peace Agreement Policy for Transit-Oriented Development Hotel Operations
Additionally, the BART Strategic Plan and Station Access Policy inform BART’s TOD Program work.
Visit the Transit-Oriented Development Guidelines page for more details on BART's procedures to advance transit-oriented development.
TOD Goals
BART strives to achieve its six TOD Policy goals through both station area planning and development of BART-owned property. These six goals are:
Complete Communities: Partner to ensure BART contributes to neighborhood/district vitality, creating places offering a mix of uses and incomes.
Sustainable Communities Strategy: Lead in the delivery of the region's land use and transportation vision to achieve quality of life, economic, and greenhouse gas reduction goals.
Ridership: Increase BART ridership, particularly in locations and times when the system has capacity to grow.
Value Creation and Value Capture: Enhance the stability of BART's financial base by capturing the value of transit and reinvesting in the program to maximize TOD goals.
Transportation Choice: Leverage land use and urban design to encourage non-auto transportation choices both on and off BART property, through enhanced walkability and bike-ability, and seamless transit connectivity.
Affordability: Serve households of all income levels by linking housing affordability with access to opportunity.
BART's performance to date is encapsulated in the graphic below, which is an excerpt from BART's 2020 TOD Work Plan:
BART's Progress to Date and TOD Work Plans
BART has 22 completed projects and 8 projects are in predevelopment. No projects are currently in construction. More on these individual projects can be found at the Completed TOD Projects and Upcoming TOD Projects pages. The table of BART’s TOD Portfolio, shown below, is periodically updated to summarize the program’s efforts and reflect the dynamic nature of development plans.
Additionally, BART owns an estimated 250 acres at 27 stations that could accommodate future development. BART makes decisions about where and how to invest in future TOD based on its TOD Work Plans. Links to documents and ArcView GIS showing BART’s property are found in the Materials and Resources section below.
Table of BART's TOD Portfolio (Updated August 2024)
Description | Residential | Commercial1 | |||
Total | Affordable | Affordable | Office | Retail | |
Station & project phase (Year complete) | Complete | ||||
Castro Valley Ph 1 (1993) | 96 | 96 | 100% |
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Hayward Ph 1 (1998) | 77 | 0 | 0% |
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Ashby Ph 1-Ed Roberts (2001) | 0 | 0 | 0% | 80,000 |
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Fruitvale Ph 1 (2004) | 47 | 10 | 21% | 27,000 | 37,000 |
Richmond Ph 1 (2004) | 132 | 66 | 50% |
| 15,000 |
Pleasant Hill/CC Centre Blocks A & B (2008) | 422 | 84 | 20% |
| 35,590 |
Dublin/ Pleasanton Ph 1-Dublin (2008) | 240 | 0 | 0% |
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West Dublin/ Pleasanton Ph 1-Dublin (2013) | 309 | 0 | 0% |
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MacArthur Ph 1 (2016) | 90 | 90 | 100% |
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San Leandro Ph 1 (2017) | 115 | 115 | 100% |
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South Hayward Ph 1 (2017) | 357 | 150 | 43% |
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Fruitvale Ph 2A (2018) | 94 | 92 | 98% |
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Pleasant Hill/CC Centre Block C (2018) | 200 | 0 | 0% |
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MacArthur Ph 2 (2019) | 385 | 0 | 0% |
| 33,000 |
San Leandro Ph 2 (2019) | 85 | 85 | 100% | 5,000 | 1,000 |
West Dublin/ Pleasanton Ph 2-Pleasanton (2019) | 0 | 0 | 0% | 410,000 |
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Coliseum Ph 1 (2019) | 110 | 55 | 50% |
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MacArthur Ph 3 (2020) | 403 | 45 | 11% |
| 13,000 |
Walnut Creek Ph 2 (2023) | 358 | 0 | 0% |
| 14,000 |
Millbrae (2023) | 400 | 100 | 25% | 150,000 | 45000 |
Balboa Park (2023) | 131 | 131 | 100% |
| 3,000 |
Fruitvale Ph 2B (2024) | 181 | 179 | 99% |
| 6,000 |
Total complete | 4,232 | 1,298 | 31% | 672,000 | 202,590 |
Station & project phase | In construction | ||||
Lake Merritt Block 1, Building B | 97 | 97 | 100% | - | - |
Total in construction | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Station & project phase | Predevelopment | ||||
West Oakland Ph 1 | 762 | 240 | 31% | ~380,000 | ~50,000 |
Lake Merritt Block 1 , Building A | 360 | 36 | 10% |
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West Dublin/ Pleasanton Ph 3-Dublin | 300 | 300 | 100% |
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Lake Merritt Block 2 | 100 | 100 | 100% | ~500,000 |
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El Cerrito Plaza | 743 | 370 | 50% |
| ~20,000 |
North Berkeley | 750 | 381 | 52% |
| ~6,000 |
Pleasant Hill/CC Centre Block D | 170 | 34 | 20% |
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Richmond Ph 2 | 520 | 209 | 40% |
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Walnut Creek Ph 3 | 238 | 0 | 0% |
| 12,000 |
Total predevelopment | 3,943 | 1,670 | 42% | 880,000 | 88,000 |
Grand total | 8,272 | 3,065 | 37% | 1,552,000 | 290,590 |
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Station & project phase | Presolicitation | ||||
Ashby Ph 2 | 750 | TBD | 35-50% | 0 | 0 |
Total presolicitation | 750 | TBD | 35-50% | 0 | 0 |
1 Millbrae's project also includes 164 hotel rooms | |||||
DU = Dwelling units; SF = Square feet | |||||
Resources and Materials
2024 TOD Work Plan Update
2020 TOD Work Plan