The East Bay Regional Park District board on Tuesday approved spending $1 million in the first phase of creating a 300-space parking lot at the trail head to the uber-popular Mission Peak in Fremont.

The vote passed 7-0. The next step is to allocate another $5.5 million to finish the project, which also would include bathrooms, picnic tables and landscaping improvements, hopefully to be completed by 2020, according to Bob Nisbet, assistant general park district manger.

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Source: 300-Space Parking OK’d at Fremont’s Popular Mission Peak | NBC Bay Area http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/300-Space-Parking-Lot-Up-for-Vote-at-Fremonts-Popular-Mission-Peak-394140821.html#ixzz4NHXJjhIh
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