Pleasant Hill BART
Specific Plan
Community Use
Use Types. Community Use types include utility, educational, recreational, cultural, medical, governmental, and other uses which are strongly vested with public or social importance. The Community Use type could refer to facilities owned or used by public and quasi-public agencies for the delivery of services to the general public; these might include day care centers, libraries, community centers, museums, recreation facilities, and government centers. Uses allowed under this designation include the following:
a) Adult Day Care Facilities. Facilities other than adult day care homes that provide non-medical care and supervision on a less than 24-hour-per-day basis. This classification includes day care for adults and elderly persons, including social day care facilities.
b) Child Care Facilities. Facilities that provide non-medical care, protection, and supervision to children under 18 years of age on a less than 24-hour basis. The child care facility use type refers to a facility as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 1596.750. The three basic designations covered are (1) small family day care home, licensed for the care of eight or fewer children, (2) large family day care home, licensed for the care of up to fourteen children, and (3) child care center, licensed for the care of more than fourteen children.
c) Clubs or Lodges. Meeting, recreational, or social facilities of a private or non-profit organization primarily for use by members or guests. This classification includes union halls, social clubs, and youth centers.
d) Colleges, Public or Private. Institutions of higher education that provides a curriculum of a general, religious, or professional nature and that typically grants recognized degrees or certificates.
e) Cultural Institutions. Nonprofit institutions displaying or preserving objects of interest in one or more of the arts or sciences. This classification includes libraries, museums, and art galleries.
f) Emergency Medical Care/No Inpatient. Facilities providing emergency medical service on a 24-hour basis with no provision for continuing care on an inpatient basis.
g) Government Offices. Administrative, clerical, or public contact offices of a government agency.
h) Park and Recreation Facilities. Noncommercial parks, playgrounds, and recreation facilities, including trail and open space uses.
i) Public Safety Facilities. Facilities for public safety and emergency services, including police and fire protection.
j) Public Transit Terminals. Public or publicly regulated facilities for passenger transit service and operations.
k) Religious Assembly. Facilities for religious worship and incidental religious education, not including private schools.
l) Residential Care Facilities. Facilities that provide 24-hour non-medical care for seven or more persons in need of personal services, protection, supervision, assistance, guidance, or training essential for sustaining the activities of daily living, or for the protection of the individual. This classification includes group homes, residential care facilities for the elderly, adult residential facilities, wards of the juvenile court, and other facilities licensed by the State of California.
m) Schools, Public or Private. Educational institutions having a curriculum comparable to that required in public schools of the State of California.
n) Utilities, Minor. Utility facilities that are necessary to support legally established uses and involve only minor structures such as electrical distribution lines and underground water or sewer lines.
o) Conference Center. Facilities designed for business and community meetings, education, and related purposes.
BART Parking. The BART Parking use type refers to parking services involving parking structures and lots which are operated by or for BART to serve BART patrons.
Utility/Open Space Corridors. The Utility/Open Space Corridors use type refers to the improvements for public utility infrastructure and public open space. The utility improvements can include all necessary below grade utility lines such as storm drains, water lines, sanitary sewer, etc., and all necessary above grade access improvements. The Utility/Open Space use is also intended to maintain visual open space along appropriate rights of way and preserve oak trees and creek on the BART property. Parking would be a permitted use on the BART property. Excluded are above grade improvements such as power lines or telephone lines that can be alternately located below grade. Public open space improvements can include landscaped or paved areas for public gathering or outdoor use areas to support private development such as (1) outdoor seating for adjacent eating and drinking establishments or food and beverage sales, (2) retail sale of merchandise in an open or covered outdoor area on the site of a legally established retail business, (3) vendor carts or stands that serve prepared food or drinks for on- or off-site consumption or provide a place for the display and sale of plants and flowers, and (4) all outdoor public pedestrian or bicycle circulation improvements. Excluded uses are vehicular uses such as parking except surface parking provided as an interim use and service access as necessary to provide deliveries to adjacent uses except where specifically noted in the plan provisions. Nonessential motorized vehicles are to be kept out of the utility/open space corridors for either parking or circulation, i.e. no public road use. Essential vehicles are those needed for service, maintenance, limited deliveries, emergency response, and transit. The utility and open space corridors shall permit all necessary circulation uses in the former Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way identified in the circulation policy diagram or permitted by subsequent plans. Any Utility/Open Space Corridor uses of Areas 6 and 13 that are at or above grade shall be limited to the Iron Horse Trail (and pathways connecting the Trail), permanently landscaped open space, and a fixed guideway. Any part of Areas 6 and 13 reserved for a fixed guideway shall be temporarily landscaped until construction of the fixed guideway begins.
Temporary Uses. The Temporary Uses use type refers to uses that are conducted for a specified temporary length of time. Typical uses include outdoor arts and crafts shows (for display and sale of painting, sculpture, hand crafts, and similar objects); retail Christmas tree sales (generally between Thanksgiving and December 26); civic/community events, including entertainment and exhibitions, sponsored by the County, cities, or community organizations; farmers markets (for retail sales of produce and other food items); live entertainment events (concerts and other cultural events lasting fewer than five calendar days); retail pumpkin sales (generally between October 1 and October 31); and street fairs (for provision of games, eating and drinking facilities, live entertainment, or similar activities not requiring the use of roofed structures).
Temporary uses shall conform to the following performance criteria:
- Temporary uses shall be administratively reviewed by the Zoning Administrator who will take into consideration the frequency of events. The Zoning Administrator may prior to making a determination, require notification of all property owners within 300 feet and to known property associations in the area.
- The duration of events will be determined by the Zoning Administrator taking into consideration the impact on the neighborhood in terms of noise, nuisance, parking and other factors.
- No loudspeakers may be used before 10:00 a.m. and after 9:00 p.m.
- Outdoor lighting shall be directed downward and away from adjacent properties.
- The operator of the event shall pick up and properly dispose of trash, litter and garbage originating on the premises, deposited on
public and private property within 400 feet of any boundary of the premises on which the temporary use is approved.
- A bond or cash deposit in an amount determined by the Zoning Administrator will be required to ensure trash is picked up and the Station Area is restored to its original state upon termination of the temporary use.
- Signage shall be reviewed and approved by the Zoning Administrator.
- All necessary approvals shall be obtained from the County Environmental Health, Building Inspection, Fire District, and Public Works Departments.
- Public roads shall not be closed off to through traffic unless approved by the Zoning Administrator and the Department of Public Works.
- The event sponsor shall demonstrate that adequate off-street parking spaces exist for the proposed use. Shared parking arrangements shall be made with adjacent property owners for weekend and evening events so as to not disrupt the surrounding neighborhood.
- Temporary uses of the right-of-way shall be established in a manner that does not obstruct or otherwise adversely impact the construction and operation of the fixed guideway transit.
Temporary Parking. The Temporary Parking use type refers to an interim development use for the daytime use of vehicular parking. Typical uses would be for partially improved BART patron parking. The current use of Areas 6 and 13 for temporary parking use shall terminate at completion of the I-680/SR 24 reconstruction, at which time the asphalt parking surface shall be removed and landscaping installed (except on that portion reserved for the Iron Horse Trail.). Excluded uses would include vehicular storage and RV parks.