Stuart Baker

Berkeley City Council unanimously agreed to hold a public hearing to discuss the first phase of a pilot program that will add a two-lane bikeway and a transit-only lane to sections of Bancroft Way at its regular meeting Tuesday.

Off the Grid, a company that brings together diverse food trucks for lively street food markets, is closing its location at the North Berkeley BART station because of slow business and high health permit costs. Its last event will be held Feb. 28.

A multi-use venue will soon bring life to an abandoned corner of Telegraph Avenue that has lain unused for over a decade.

Berkeley City Council voted to approve two contentious amendments to city ordinances that would regulate street behaviors and increase nighttime park policing — ordinances characterized by many as criminalizing homelessness.

Community members provided feedback for a plan to make Telegraph Avenue more pedestrian friendly and representative of the area’s historical culture at a Telegraph Business Improvement District meeting Tuesday morning.

Business leaders and city officials introduced a plan to improve the Telegraph area through colored streets and art installations at a quarterly meeting of the Telegraph Business Improvement District, or TBID.