Meanwhile, on a larger scale, San Jose's proposed plans for the Santa Teresa light rail site seem to have been plagued by delays leaving many homeless dwellers in limbo, as reported earlier by San José Spotlight. Soil samples will be conducted to ensure that there are no health risks for the parked residents due to potential contamination, according to the same Mercury News report. The proposed safe parking site is close to various industrial facilities, such as recycling centers and Graniterock's cement processing plant. If approved, up to 85 RVs could be legally parked along Coyote Creek, serving as part of a larger strategy to reduce homelessness in the city, as mentioned in the Mercury News article. The city council is expected to vote on the RV parking site lease in early June. This juxtaposition of a safe parking site for the homeless and a luxury development just a mile apart epitomizes the challenges and differing approaches to housing issues in San Jose. At the same time, the Facchino family has proposed a major urban transformation in the Berryessa district, as Hoodline's Nina Singh-Hudson discovered earlier in May, which would include over 800 homes and a commercial building near the Berryessa BART station - a mere 0.6 miles away from the potential RV parking site. The city is considering leasing a 6.3-acre parcel of land at 1300 Berryessa Road from Terreno Realty to create San Jose's largest-ever RV parking site for the homeless, capable of accommodating up to 85 vehicles, according to a Mercury News report.
Phase II has completed the environmental process and is currently in the design and engineering process.San Jose is taking contrasting strides when it comes to addressing housing challenges in the city, particularly in the Berryessa neighborhood. Phase I broke ground in 2012 and opened for passenger service on June 13, 2020. The VTA Board committed to building the project in two phases in February 2009, with Phase I carrying passengers to Berryessa/North San José and Phase II serving downtown San José to Santa Clara. The original project would have extended service in one 16 mile extension from South Fremont to Santa Clara. When the BART District was formed in the 1960's, Santa Clara County opted out. Faced with growing congestion along the I-880 corridor, a Major Investment Study was conducted in 2001 which identified the need for transit alternatives and laid the groundwork to start the environmental process for the BART Silicon Valley Extension Program. The effort to bring BART into Santa Clara County has been decades in the making. Facets of the project include transit oriented communities, multimodal transportation connectivity, as well as roadway, utility and environmental improvements. More than a transit project, BSV is an entire program of improvements that will transform Silicon Valley. Phase II, currently in design and engineering, will extend service from the Berryessa Transit Center to stations at 28th Street/Little Portugal, Downtown San José, Diridon Station with the end of service in Santa Clara.Phase I (Complete) extended service from Alameda County into Santa Clara County, with stops at Milpitas and Berryessa/North San Jos é.
The project is being built in two phases. VTA’s BART Silicon Valley Extension Program (BSV) will expand BART service into Santa Clara County, bringing frequent and reliable regional rail service to over 1.7 million county residents.
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