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The City of Livermore in its July 11, 2011 meeting took input from a new study and from the proposed citizen initiative (that asked to keep BART on 580) and approved a new BART alignment option. This option proposes one station at Isabel @ 580. The second station is proposed to the south of the original Greenville @ 580 station site. This site preserves the City of Livermore’s Urban Growth Boundary but requires most of the Transit Oriented Development (TOD) required to get federal funds to built at the new Greenville site because it is not possible to build near Isabel due to the nearby airport and other zoning restrictions.

You can see the video of the meeting at this link below.
http://www.tri-valleytv.org/VOD.html
Look for July 11, 2011 meeting. The discussion about this new alignment starts roughly an hour into the meeting. As usual the best newspaper coverage on this is from our local newspaper The Independent News. A live link to their article is here. A backup link is here.

It is great to see the democratic process in action with supporters of different alignments compromising somewhat to come up with a unified City of Livermore position on BART alignments. This unified position should hopefully us when we try to get the funds to build the stations. Now, let’s go get the money to build that Isabel/580 station first.