Pleasant Hill BART

Specific Plan

URBAN DESIGN

1. Promote a Station Area appearance which will project a positive image and have local identity.
   
   
2. Provide for a Station Area appearance which complements areas adjoining the Station Area.
   
   
3. Protect major stands and individual specimens of native oaks and make the trees a major design feature of the area.
   
   
4. Provide for a network of public open spaces, both informal park-like areas and urban plaza-like spaces, so as to both promote a unified sense of development and provide for the open space and amenity needs of Station Area employees, BART riders and local residents.
   
   
5. Maintain views of Mt. Diablo and other distant but dominant natural features from the BART platform, and encourage the creation of view corridors from the development on Area 12.
   
   
6. Develop areas intensively used by pedestrians at a human scale and with adjoining uses which will visually and functionally enliven the area.
   
   
7. Ensure that buildings and related site improvements throughout the Station Area are well designed and functionally and visually compatible with their surroundings.
   
   
8. Ensure that public and private areas are designed to promote personal safety and security of property.
   
   
9. Create a pedestrian-friendly street-level environment by discouraging blank building walls, and encouraging windows, doors, and other building facade features.