Pleasant Hill BART

Specific Plan

TRANSPORTATION AND CIRCULATION

1. Maximize use of public transit as a means of transportation for businesses and residents located within the Station Area.
   
   
2. Help facilitate improved local transit service to and from the Pleasant Hill BART Station Area.
   
   
3. Improve automobile access to the BART Station from Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, and Concord.
   
   
4. Discourage through auto traffic in the Station Area which would preempt roadway capacity needed to serve the BART facility and Station Area land uses.
   
   
5. Provide for safe and convenient pedestrian and bicycle movement between the BART Station, Station Area parking, local transit boarding areas, and major facilities in the Station Area and between the Station Area and nearby residential and commercial areas.
   
   
6. Replace all BART patron parking that is displaced by development on BART sites.
   
   
7. Encourage reductions in long-term employee parking for commercial uses in the Station Area.
   
   
8. Provide for the integration of proposed regional trail systems within the former Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way into and through the Station Area.
   
   
9. Encourage shared parking arrangements where appropriate.