"The restrooms, which include flushable toilets and sinks, were installed as a four-month, $70,000 pilot program the city plans to use to evaluate the company's bathrooms. The restrooms track how often they are used, as well as their cleanliness, and Parks Director Scott Ferris told Berkeleyside the company's data show people have used the facilities hundreds of times in the two weeks they've been in place."
"Parkgoers are getting better places to pee in several of Berkeley's popular open spaces. A publicly accessible restroom opened Thursday in West Berkeley's James Kenney Park, and another will make its debut in the coming weeks at Ohlone Park, joining three other parks that opened upgraded bathrooms in recent weeks. But the city is scaling back some of its plans for public toilets because of opposition from neighbors and rising construction costs."
Berkeley has added and upgraded several public restrooms across city parks, converting one interior restroom at the James Kenney Community Center to an exterior, ADA-accessible facility with broader public hours. New permanent restrooms opened at Willard Park following an $8.9 million overhaul. Smart restrooms from Throne Labs were installed in Civic Center Park and Cesar Chavez Park as a $70,000, four-month pilot; the units include flushable toilets, sinks, usage and cleanliness tracking, and recorded hundreds of uses in two weeks. The parks division plans another restroom near Ohlone Park and is soliciting construction bids, while some projects were scaled back due to neighborhood opposition and rising costs.
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