Vacant apartments exist, therefore we should not build any more of them. How is that hard to understand?
The fact that we lack a mechanism to forcibly fill said homes is not important.
I could be convinced to let something be built at North Berkeley BART as long as it fulfills all of the following:
Demand 1) 1 parking spot for each bedroom plus full replacement for the surface lot.
Demand 5) we need community input at every step of the way, with more steps added in for more chances for input. Every single homeowner & longtime renter within a .5 mile radius gets to contribute 1 word or punctuation mark to the MOU, to be done at a meeting held on a weekday.