LUI Update and Report on Charrette

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LUI Update and Report on Charrette

• Conducted Charrette in Coordination with
  Transportation Working Group
• Input from Regional Agencies, Public and Interest
  Groups
• Major Themes
• AC Transit Bus Rapid Transit
• BART Regional Rail Plans for Oakland
• ABAG FOCUS Program to for Priority Land Use and
  Conservation Areas

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BARTRegional Rail and High Speed Rail Focus on
Oakland
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AC Transit BRT Plan
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ABAG FOCUS Program
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Urban Villages Mapping Of Vitality Centers
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New Recommendation Areas in Blue (Previous
Recommendations Not Generally Repeated)

• Update General Plan so that land Use takes into
  account
• Urban Villages Mapping
• AC Transit BRT Plans
• BART Regional Rail Plans
• ABAG Focus Programs

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More Specific Charrette Recommendations
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Recommendations

• Include Bicycle In Transportation Hierarchy and
  Fold Bicycle Master Plan Update into
  Recommendations (needs follow up)
• Other Efforts to Coordinate with and Learn From
• Berkeley Measure G
• San Francisco Peak Oil
• Japans Ministry of Environment 2007 Report
• ONWARD Oakland Network for Responsible
  Development, Sponsoring a People's Economic
  Summit in November

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Parking Recommendations

• Parking
• Additional look at Don Donald Shoups Work UCLA
  as background, the idea of subsidized bundled
  parking (embedded into overhead) rather true ala
  cart pricing
• Historical Impact of Oaklands Parking Ratio
  Requirement on Housing Affordability
• Dan Zack of Redwood City as a Bay Area example of
  implementation of Shoups ideas (ABAG)
• Examine Applicability of Car Free by contract
  to Oakland on a pilot basis or for particular
  areasor types of uses

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Proactive Design Review Guidelines

• Redwood City may provide a good Bay Area Example
  with their Downtown Precise Plan
• http//www.redwoodcity.org/cds/planning/precise/pr
  eciseplan.html
• AIA confirms willingness to participate (with
  lead time for time off coordination)

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Bringing Jobs Closer

• Coordinate with Green Jobs and Land Use Task
  Force
• Eliminate uncertainty caused by speculation and
  difference in Zoning and General Plan
• Create specific development goals through for job
  creating zoning
• Utilize North San Jose approach to planning for
  job creation
• Use residential development to help fund job
  creations opportunities (where compatible) in a
  mixed use environment
• Designate some areas for no residential job
  creating opportunities (e.g. Oakland Army Base
  has existing residential restriction)
• Create certainty as to what city wants with
  zoning and General Plan

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Recommendations

• Develop and articulate the Social Equity Benefits
  for proposed Urban Villages Approach
• More Jobs in Oakland
• More jobs closer
• Less dependence on the cost of a car in general
• Less dependence on a car to get to work
• Using the density and transit premiums as a means
  to create value that funds affordable or
  inclusionary housing requirements (across the
  board through zoning and general plan, not
  project specific)
• Examine workforce housing as an option so folks
  like police officers and teachers can live closer
  to home

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Recommendations

• Advocate Better one fare system
• Advocate infrastructure for bus loading stations
• Advocate AC Transit provide the ribs and feed
  into the spine of BRT and BART.
• Advocate AC Transit provide shuttle type services
  within activity nodes (urban villages) and to
  BART using excess BART parking at night where
  feasible

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ABAG Recommendations

• Fully Engage in FOCUS Program to identify
  Priority Development Areas
• Examine options for more focused nodes
• Look at both priority development areas and
  priority conservation areas
• Potential for use city TDR as a tool for the
  conservation side

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Recommendations

• Better Coordination Between Regional Transit
  Agencies and Oakland Land Use Planning Efforts
• Coordination on Priority Signaling for AC Transit
  could increase service by 1/3.
• Potential for Joint Powers Authority for Transit
  Village development
• Coordination of Land Use and Infrastructure with
  AC Transit and BART future Plans

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Some Specific Geographic Coordination AreasFor
BART and AC Transit
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BART Regional Rail Projects in Oakland

• Short Term
• Corridor Preservation Oakland Subdivision
• Increase frequency of Capitol Corridor
• Port of Oakland Intermodal Facility and 7th
  Street Grade Separation
• Medium and Long Term
• BART implements Metro vision and 30-year CIP
• Fourth Track in Downtown Oakland
• West Oakland Capitol Corridor Station
• Potential new Transbay Rail / BART Crossing with
  HSR station at West Oakland BART and train yard
  in Oakland

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Telegraph at 49th - Current
Prepared by FMG Architects
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Telegraph at 49th - Proposed
Prepared by FMG Architects
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Telegraph at 31st - Current
Prepared by FMG Architects
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Telegraph at 31st - Proposed
Prepared by FMG Architects
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International at 34th - Current
Prepared by FMG Architects
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International at 34th -Proposed
Prepared by FMG Architects
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Still Need to do

• Documents
• Oaklands EIR Comments for BRT
• Oakland Response to ABAG Focus Program
• City of Vancouver's DR standards
• Quantify Recommendations based on metrics
• Flesh in Key Messages
• Refine Recommendations