Pleasant Hill BART
Specific Plan
Commercial Parking
| Policy 1. | The minimum parking requirement for Commercial/Office Space shall be equivalent to a minimum of .5 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of net-rentable area with an allowance for 50 percent small car spaces. The maximum parking spaces permitted for Commercial/Office space shall be equivalent to 3.3 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of net-rentable area. Large-scale retail sales uses may be permitted to provide up to 4.5 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of net-rentable area. Any project proposal with parking provisions less than the maximum permitted (3.3/1000) shall require approval of a Parking Report substantiating the lower requirement. The report shall be submitted to the administering agency (BART Board of Directors in the case of BART-owned properties) and include a survey of similarly sited projects for which a lower parking requirement was employed and an assessment of the adequacy of the lower requirement to protect adjacent neighborhoods from adverse impacts. |
| Policy 2. | Parking spaces shall be reserved on-site for retail and professional, business and personal service use types in clearly marked, short-term parking, equivalent to 1.0 space per 1,000 square feet of net-rentable retail and services area. |
| Policy 3. | All parking spaces for Commercial/Office use in the Core Development Area shall be in a structure. |
| Policy 4. | Shared parking arrangements shall be encouraged. |
Residential Parking
| Policy 1. | The minimum parking requirement for multiple-family residential space shall be equivalent to 0.75 per sleeping space or 1.0 space per unit, whichever is greater. The maximum number of spaces per project shall not be greater than 1.5 per dwelling unit. |
| Policy 2. | A parking management program shall be developed to provide for residential permit parking restrictions in the existing residential neighborhoods within the Station Area and is recommended for the surrounding residential neighborhood east of the former Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way as well. |
BART Parking
An approximate 1,337-space parking structure was constructed in 1991 northwest of the station and south of Las Juntas Way. The parking structure may be expanded to 2,600 spaces if there is a development project. The parking structure consists of approximately 300 spaces that replaced BART patron parking spaces displaced by the structure, plus 1,050 additional spaces. In addition to the 1,337-space parking garage, the BART site contains an additional 1,294 surface parking spaces, 42 accessible/handicapped spaces, 39 curb/street spaces, and 94 BART pool spaces, for a total of 2,806 parking spaces.
| Policy 1. | Parking spaces lost due to construction or changes in land use at the BART station shall be replaced, prior to elimination of the existing spaces, with the same number of new parking spaces allocated to BART patrons. |
| Policy 2. | Temporary replacement parking may be located elsewhere in the Specific Plan area during construction of the permanent replacement parking, subject to compliance with temporary parking requirements. |
| Policy 3. | Shared parking for development shall be encouraged at the Pleasant Hill BART Station Parking Area during non-commute hours including evenings, weekends and holidays. |
| Policy 4. | Any extension of the existing parking structure shall (1) be designed so as to prevent light and noise intrusion into residential areas and to minimize residential views of parked vehicles from those areas; (2) incorporate small retail uses at ground level around the structure's perimeter; (3) have vehicular entrances and exits only from Wayne Drive and the existing structure; and (4) require retrofitting of the existing structure to reduce its light intrusion into residential areas. |