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The Oakland school board also has \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/oakland-unified-board-orders-investigation-church-school-16635\" target=\"_blank\">launched an investigation\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>after a rancorous school board meeting earlier this month, where parents alleged mistreatment of students at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should not be in the position of allowing children to be exploited in any kind of way,\" said BART Director Lynette Sweet. \"An abundance of caution tells us we should stop (the soliciting).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Church leader Robert Lacy Jr. objected to the continued scrutiny of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.saintambcpstu.com/752.html\" target=\"_blank\">school\u003c/a> his father, the pastor Robert Lacy, founded in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now it sounds like it’s getting into harassing individuals that aren’t bothering anyone,\" he said in an interview. \"It sounds like you’re trying to defame the character of the school and the church and everything that has to do with St. Andrew.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART has routinely granted permits allowing St. Andrew to solicit donations, and staff previously defended that action to its board citing free speech rights. But Sweet and Director Robert Raburn now are asking BART's lawyers to determine what leeway the agency has to restrict the soliciting activities of St. Andrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By all accounts, this is not a group that we want to promote on public property,\" Raburn wrote in an email to California Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raburn said he became concerned last year when he saw unsupervised St. Andrew students asking for money at the Fruitvale BART after dark. Sweet also grew alarmed, she said, after seeing the soliciting continue day after day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But BART staff responded to the board in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/372850-bart-memo.html\" target=\"_blank\">December memo\u003c/a> that \"the speech activities are protected on the grounds that the Church is a religious organization engaged in charitable solicitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Andrew students have been raising money for years, but it's \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/controversial-church-sends-kids-solicit-money-bart-stations-13825\" target=\"_blank\">unclear\u003c/a> where the money is going. The pastor drives a Cadillac Escalade while the school building needs repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch recently uncovered \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/k-12/oakland-school-accused-abuse-overbilling-taxpayers-records-show-16428\" target=\"_blank\">allegations of abuse\u003c/a> at the hands of Robert Lacy Jr., who teaches at the school and sometimes takes students to solicit at BART stations. Former students said he hit and threw things at children in his classes. Lacy Jr. has said he doesn't have \"any history\" of hitting children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweet said the staff decision to keep monthly permits flowing to St. Andrew was \"the wrong thing to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It didn’t appear that they were raising money for a legitimate cause,\" she said. \"It also appeared that they were out there too long – they were being abused.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART spokeswoman Luna Salaver said that as a public agency, BART has to issue the permits \"on a level playing field.\" She said BART police monitored the situation and did not observe any violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"BART takes children’s safety very seriously,\" Salaver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/372852-bart-permit-june-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">this month's permit\u003c/a> to Andrew Lacy, another son of the pastor. The permit allows fundraising every day from 5 to 7 p.m. at seven BART stations in Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Lacy has a history of illegal activity. He pleaded guilty to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/366460-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\">felony welfare fraud\u003c/a> in 2004, according to court records. And, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/372858-andrew-lacy-2002-arrest.html\" target=\"_blank\">police records\u003c/a> newly obtained by California Watch, he was also arrested in 2002 on charges of injuring his girlfriend with a club. He was convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in that case, which was later dismissed after he satisfied the conditions of his probation, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART does not conduct a criminal background check before issuing permits, Salaver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>In a separate custody court case this year, the father of Andrew Lacy's stepdaughter – then a student at St. Andrew – accused Lacy of threatening to slap the girl if she didn't solicit at BART stations. The girl’s mother denied the allegations in court filings, but the judge gave primary custody to the father, specifying that the girl not engage in soliciting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Lacy did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, state officials plan to investigate whether the Oakland Unified School District mismanaged federal funds as it distributed money to St. Andrew teachers. California Watch found that the school's reported enrollment numbers, used to determine its level of federal funding, far exceeded the number of students who actually attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified distributes Title I money based on the number of low-income students and Title II money based on total enrollment. The district uses enrollment figures reported to the state to allocate Title II funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Andrew reported to the state it had 195 students this year, including 61 low-income students, while former students said fewer than 30 attended. An Oakland fire inspector observed 15 to 20 students and determined that the classrooms could fit no more than 58.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a federal program to improve teaching and help struggling students at both public and private schools, Oakland Unified allocated at least $50,000 to benefit St. Andrew this school year and paid out $173,500 over the previous four years. Most of the money went to Lacy Jr. and Carrie Banks, a St. Andrew teacher who married the pastor in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified spokesman Troy Flint said the state is responsible for making sure the numbers are accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just makes common sense,\" Flint said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state Education Department spokesman Paul Hefner said the state does not check the enrollment figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local school districts, he said, “need to take steps to verify those numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hefner said the state is moving up a planned routine review of the district's distribution of Title I and II funds from January\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>to September because of the controversy. The review, he said, will also look into whether the money should have gone to Lacy Jr. and Banks, since the law requires it be used for consultants who are \"independent\" of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district could be on the hook for refunding any misspent money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, the district allocated $1.2 million to benefit Oakland private school students and teachers during the 2011-12 school year, according to district records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will Evans is an investigative journalist for \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">California Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n",
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He said he is considering a research position at Harvard University.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_19092060\">Oakland residents saddened but not surprised by resignation of Police Chief Anthony Batts\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...it was no surprise Tuesday that residents said they were saddened by Batts' resignation, but most said it was not completely unexpected. In his almost two-year tenure in Oakland, Batts began to lose the glow that surrounded his arrival.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/12/BAV11LG50U.DTL\">Activists scatter before police raid vacant hotels\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco police searched two vacant hotels Tuesday, taking a battering ram to the front door of one, but found that activists for the homeless who occupied the buildings overnight had vanished.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/bart-protests/story/bart-cut-cell-service-spur-moment-emails/\">BART Cut Cell Service on Spur of the Moment, Emails Show\u003c/a> (Bay Citizen)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the wake of the scandal [in which BART shut off cell phone service during a planned protest], BART officials characterized the shutdown as a difficult decision made after rider safety was weighed carefully against the rights of the protesters. \"We struggled with that decision,\" spokesman Linton Johnson said at an Aug. 16 press conference. “That was a gut-wrenching decision. 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He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_19091990\">Occupy Wall Street protests gain momentum in Bay Area\u003c/a> (Bay Area News Group)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Support for the effort is coming from some notable places. In San Jose, Mayor Chuck Reed on Tuesday said he hopes the protesters have an impact on the Obama administration's willingness \"to do something about the lying, stealing and cheating going on on Wall Street,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/10/green-public-power-san-francisco-clears-major-hurdle\">Green public power for San Francisco clears major hurdle\u003c/a> (SF Examiner)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The City’s ambitious plan to offer residents greener power than PG&E took a significant step forward Tuesday. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission approved a term sheet Tuesday with Shell Energy North America to run CleanPowerSF, The City’s proposed public power program, and next week Supervisor David Campos will introduce it to the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_19090354\">Officials want affordable housing projects spread across Marin\u003c/a> (Marin Independent Journal)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>County officials, promising to combat Marin's not-in-my-backyard culture as they promote \"fair housing\" for all, want to spread housing for the poor across Marin, rather than concentrating it in minority communities. In addition, under an \"impediments to fair housing\" plan prompted by a dispute with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the poor, minorities, the disabled and women will get a bigger voice in how federal housing money is spent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/10/12/MNIU1LBU71.DTL\">Transbay Tower plan raises shadow debate\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Reaching 1,070 feet into the air, San Francisco's proposed Transbay Tower would be the tallest building west of the Mississippi.But if approved and built, it could also do something else, critics say: Its shadow, and the shadow of five other buildings proposed to rise at least 700 feet from an area near the old Transbay Terminal at First and Mission streets, could stretch across Market Street and into the parks of North Beach and Chinatown, blocking the sun and turning the parks - at least at certain times of the day - into shadowy wastelands.That's hyperbole, city officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/12/BUU71LFT2Q.DTL&tsp=1\">A.G. 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"content": "\u003cp>from \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/east-bay-bart-station-falls-short-disabled-access-12845\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Rapid Transit officials spent $2 million on a new ramp leading to the Lafayette station but didn’t include provisions for wheelchairs to get from the parking lot to the access ramp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41708\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/lafayettebart1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/lafayettebart1-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lafayettebart1\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41708\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lafayette BART station ramp zigzags from the station entrance to the south parking lot. But disabled access is limited. (Photo: Mark Katches/California Watch) \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s not the only issue that might draw the ire of disabled-rights advocates. The south BART parking lot has 117 stalls for vehicles, but not a single space has been set aside for the disabled – putting the transit agency potentially at odds with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. Federal guidelines generally call for one handicapped space for every 25 parking spots. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new ramp allows wheelchairs and bicycles to bypass the 26 stairs leading from the south parking lot to the station entrance. The $2 million price tag covered the costs of the planning, design, landscaping, stairs and the marquee ramp that zigzags in four sections up the hillside to the station’s south entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the parking lot has no curb ramps or lips that would enable wheelchairs or bicycles to easily get from the parking surface to the sidewalk, where the ramp begins. BART officials say the ramp project was designed to connect the station to a bike path leading to the Lafayette City Center. Wheelchairs could access the ramp there, but the entry point to that path is down a hill close to busy Mt. Diablo Boulevard. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This does preclude a disabled person from being dropped off in the smaller parking lot and using the ramp,\" BART spokesman James Allison said in a written e-mail response to questions. But he said disabled passengers could access the station from the north lot, which is closer to the station. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new ramp, which was completed in April, was built with federal transportation dollars and local matching funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In general, we're very serious about ADA requirements,\" Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building the ramp without handicapped access prompted some head scratching among disabled-rights advocates and BART riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t make a lot of sense,” said Fred Nisen, an attorney with Disability Rights California, a group that advocates for the handicapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearest sidewalk wheelchair access point is roughly 100 yards away at the parking lot entrance on Happy Valley Road. The station’s much larger upper parking lot on the north side of the station features handicapped parking and curb cutouts. The south lot is for permit holders who pay $84 a month or $4.50 a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macey Little, 20, who works with the disabled, waited for a client at the base of the ramp last week. She furrowed her brow, contemplating the urban planning that went into the matter. Little rides BART from Concord to her job in Lafayette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s odd that they did that,” said Little, pointing to where she would have put curbside access if she were in charge of such things. “I’d think they would have put something here and maybe there. Otherwise, you’d have to push a wheelchair up the curb, and that’s a lot of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments later, another BART passenger, Ken Roux, cautiously led his bicycle down the winding ramp to the sidewalk below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Looks like someone made a mistake,\" said Roux, 42, who lives in Lafayette. \"It's a disappointment; if you have statutes on the books, you expect them to be enforced. It calls into question the integrity of the entire project.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal requirements call for specific ratios of handicapped parking spots – commonly one for every 25 stalls – as well as curbside access, according to Nisen. He said, however, that he would need to be more familiar with the station to know for sure whether BART was violating ADA requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How the situation occurred speaks to the political dynamics and turf issues that can surface when more than one governmental agency has a stake in a public works project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41709\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/lafayettebart2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/lafayettebart2-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lafayettebart2\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41709\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new $2 million access ramp leads to a parking lot with no handicapped parking spots and no curb cutouts. (Photo: Mark Katches/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART owns and operates the station along the Pittsburg-Bay Point line. The commuter service built and maintains the parking lot on the south side of the station. But the land under the south parking lot belongs to the East Bay Municipal Utility District. The water agency has been leasing the land to BART for 40 years – even before the system carried its first passenger. BART currently pays the utility district about $74,000 a year in rent, according to utility spokeswoman Andrea Pook. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART's project manager, Jeff Garcia, who oversaw the ramp construction, acknowledged that the transit agency didn't want a confrontation with the water provider, so BART steered clear of changes to the parking lot. Garcia added that the water district had balked when BART had proposed other projects in the past. In fact, he said, BART dropped plans years ago to add curb access to the parking lot because of objections from the water agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So during internal BART planning discussions of the ramp project, Garcia said, \"we were told we’re not allowed to touch the parking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were definitely afraid of East Bay MUD,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay Municipal Utility District officials said the lease allows BART officials to make whatever enhancements are needed to the south lot. They can stripe it, paint it or modify it any way the transit agency sees fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our land; it’s their parking lot,” said Stephen Boeri, manager of real estate services for the utility district. Boeri said the utility district bears no responsibility for access issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like an oversight of their planning of the facility,” Boeri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garcia said the water provider's engineering staff might answer the question differently than would its real estate division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So if we do something, we have to talk to their engineering folks, who say you can't do anything,\" said Garcia, bemoaning the bureaucratic hoops one has to go through to plan a project. \"People wonder why some things never get done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transit agency has won praise for its efforts to increase access to bicyclists and the disabled in recent years – but not without some missteps. In 1998, BART settled a class-action suit brought by Disability Rights California and Disability Rights Advocates over the issue of cleanliness and reliability of the system’s elevators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the new ramp opened without fanfare, Allison said BART is planning an event in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that there are no plans to change the configuration of the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not in the works,\" Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garcia said in a later interview that an inexpensive fix could be made to add access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't give much consideration to that curb ramp,\" he said. \"And now that I think about it, it's not a bad idea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mark Katches is the editorial director for the Center for Investigative Reporting and California Watch. More from California Watch \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>from \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/east-bay-bart-station-falls-short-disabled-access-12845\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Rapid Transit officials spent $2 million on a new ramp leading to the Lafayette station but didn’t include provisions for wheelchairs to get from the parking lot to the access ramp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41708\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/lafayettebart1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/lafayettebart1-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lafayettebart1\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41708\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lafayette BART station ramp zigzags from the station entrance to the south parking lot. But disabled access is limited. (Photo: Mark Katches/California Watch) \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s not the only issue that might draw the ire of disabled-rights advocates. The south BART parking lot has 117 stalls for vehicles, but not a single space has been set aside for the disabled – putting the transit agency potentially at odds with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. Federal guidelines generally call for one handicapped space for every 25 parking spots. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new ramp allows wheelchairs and bicycles to bypass the 26 stairs leading from the south parking lot to the station entrance. The $2 million price tag covered the costs of the planning, design, landscaping, stairs and the marquee ramp that zigzags in four sections up the hillside to the station’s south entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the parking lot has no curb ramps or lips that would enable wheelchairs or bicycles to easily get from the parking surface to the sidewalk, where the ramp begins. BART officials say the ramp project was designed to connect the station to a bike path leading to the Lafayette City Center. Wheelchairs could access the ramp there, but the entry point to that path is down a hill close to busy Mt. Diablo Boulevard. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But he said disabled passengers could access the station from the north lot, which is closer to the station. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new ramp, which was completed in April, was built with federal transportation dollars and local matching funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In general, we're very serious about ADA requirements,\" Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building the ramp without handicapped access prompted some head scratching among disabled-rights advocates and BART riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t make a lot of sense,” said Fred Nisen, an attorney with Disability Rights California, a group that advocates for the handicapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearest sidewalk wheelchair access point is roughly 100 yards away at the parking lot entrance on Happy Valley Road. The station’s much larger upper parking lot on the north side of the station features handicapped parking and curb cutouts. The south lot is for permit holders who pay $84 a month or $4.50 a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macey Little, 20, who works with the disabled, waited for a client at the base of the ramp last week. She furrowed her brow, contemplating the urban planning that went into the matter. Little rides BART from Concord to her job in Lafayette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s odd that they did that,” said Little, pointing to where she would have put curbside access if she were in charge of such things. “I’d think they would have put something here and maybe there. Otherwise, you’d have to push a wheelchair up the curb, and that’s a lot of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments later, another BART passenger, Ken Roux, cautiously led his bicycle down the winding ramp to the sidewalk below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Looks like someone made a mistake,\" said Roux, 42, who lives in Lafayette. \"It's a disappointment; if you have statutes on the books, you expect them to be enforced. It calls into question the integrity of the entire project.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal requirements call for specific ratios of handicapped parking spots – commonly one for every 25 stalls – as well as curbside access, according to Nisen. He said, however, that he would need to be more familiar with the station to know for sure whether BART was violating ADA requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How the situation occurred speaks to the political dynamics and turf issues that can surface when more than one governmental agency has a stake in a public works project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41709\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/lafayettebart2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/lafayettebart2-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lafayettebart2\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41709\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new $2 million access ramp leads to a parking lot with no handicapped parking spots and no curb cutouts. (Photo: Mark Katches/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART owns and operates the station along the Pittsburg-Bay Point line. The commuter service built and maintains the parking lot on the south side of the station. But the land under the south parking lot belongs to the East Bay Municipal Utility District. The water agency has been leasing the land to BART for 40 years – even before the system carried its first passenger. BART currently pays the utility district about $74,000 a year in rent, according to utility spokeswoman Andrea Pook. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART's project manager, Jeff Garcia, who oversaw the ramp construction, acknowledged that the transit agency didn't want a confrontation with the water provider, so BART steered clear of changes to the parking lot. Garcia added that the water district had balked when BART had proposed other projects in the past. In fact, he said, BART dropped plans years ago to add curb access to the parking lot because of objections from the water agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So during internal BART planning discussions of the ramp project, Garcia said, \"we were told we’re not allowed to touch the parking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were definitely afraid of East Bay MUD,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay Municipal Utility District officials said the lease allows BART officials to make whatever enhancements are needed to the south lot. They can stripe it, paint it or modify it any way the transit agency sees fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our land; it’s their parking lot,” said Stephen Boeri, manager of real estate services for the utility district. Boeri said the utility district bears no responsibility for access issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like an oversight of their planning of the facility,” Boeri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garcia said the water provider's engineering staff might answer the question differently than would its real estate division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So if we do something, we have to talk to their engineering folks, who say you can't do anything,\" said Garcia, bemoaning the bureaucratic hoops one has to go through to plan a project. \"People wonder why some things never get done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transit agency has won praise for its efforts to increase access to bicyclists and the disabled in recent years – but not without some missteps. In 1998, BART settled a class-action suit brought by Disability Rights California and Disability Rights Advocates over the issue of cleanliness and reliability of the system’s elevators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the new ramp opened without fanfare, Allison said BART is planning an event in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that there are no plans to change the configuration of the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not in the works,\" Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garcia said in a later interview that an inexpensive fix could be made to add access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't give much consideration to that curb ramp,\" he said. \"And now that I think about it, it's not a bad idea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They expect when they see someone is upset about something on TV those people are indeed upset about those things.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>While it was Johnson's idea, who was ultimately responsible for greenlighting it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>I confirmed [Johnson] the authority to purchase these vehicles... But his boss Jennifer Barton, who’s the head of BART external affairs saw the emails for this plan and approved them. She could have put a stop to them but she didn’t.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>She reports to the general manager. I don’t know if the general manager knew about these plans. 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