Pleasant Hill BART
Specific Plan
Public Spaces
| Policy 1. | The Public Open Space and Utility Corridors identified in Figure 5, Land Use Areas, shall integrate a variety of formal, paved public gathering areas with informal, landscaped areas to maintain continuous pedestrian circulation as indicated in the Urban Design Policy Diagrams, Figures 7.3 and 7.4. Public plazas shall front on major building entrances and provide outdoor use areas for the convenience of retail patrons. Require developers of mixed use projects to plan and demonstrate how their designs will control or eliminate land use incompatibilities between the different uses proposed, including but not limited to noise, traffic, parking and security. Among the techniques that could be used are separate office and residential elevators with floor keys to enter residential areas, sound-insulating walls, and provision of buffer zones and landscaping. |
| Policy 2. | Retail, business, and personal service uses in Subarea 12 shall be developed in a manner that enhances and complements the existing native oak open space area. Secondary retail and service frontages shall be concentrated around second level public open spaces in each of three key development areas as indicated in the Urban Design Policy Diagrams, Figures 7.2 and 7.5, and in the illustrative sections in the Subarea Site Specific Development and Design Provisions. |
| Policy 3. | The County will initiate development of a management program for a linear park and other green open space in the Station Area. It will map the use and character of the Utility/Open Space corridors; Subareas 6, 13 and 16; and other landscaped pedestrian ways in the Station Area. For Subareas 6, 13 and 16, the management program will illustrate how pedestrian and bicycle paths of the Iron Horse Trail will be safely accommodated with the fixed guideway transit and associated facilities. Conflicts among uses shall be minimized. |