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Encouraged by a slowly improving economy and the progress that neighboring cities have shown on similar projects, the Newark City Council joined a re-emerging trend of transit-oriented developments by voting Thursday to rezone a parcel for the construction of 553 residences near a proposed train station.
Once built, the Newark project would be the first phase of the Dumbarton Transit-Oriented Development, a 205-acre project offering office space, retail, public parks and as many as 2,500 housing units on the city's western edge. It would be constructed near a station for Dumbarton Rail, a proposed regional transit system that would link Capitol Corridor, ACE, BART and Caltrain service, and carry riders from Alameda County to the Peninsula via a new rail bridge over the southern part of San Francisco Bay.