Agmt 2002 Community Design and Architecture

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^ Transitions (e.g. between different width segments and different speed segments); ^ Character of the surrounding neighborhoods; and, ^ Gateway treatments at entry points to the City. CD+A will take the lead in synthesizing the work of this task and Tasks 3.2 and 3.3 into a draft memorandum. This will include a review of the opportunity sites identified by the City. The draft memorandum presented to City staff for review and comment. This work will guide the development of the initial conceptual designs. Work Products: ^ Draft Assets, Needs, and Opportunities Memorandum including graphic analysis summarizing land use, urban design, and policy and regulatory assessment. Task 3.2: Preliminary Economic and Real Estate Market Assessment Strategic Economics will perform qualitative and quantitative research into local demographic and real estate market conditions. This research will consist of interviews with local commercial and residential real estate brokers and other key informants, as well as analysis of transactional data available from First American Real Estate Solutions and demographic characteristics available from US Census 2000 and Claritus projections. Strategic Economics will then provide a preliminary assessment of the general feasibility of different land uses along the East 14`~ Street Corridor. Strategic Economics will also survey recent successful development projects in San Leandro, and other cities as appropriate, for possible applicability to the E. 14"' Street Corridor. Strategic Economics will interview developers, construction companies and planning staff to obtain key site and building characteristics, as well as costs and financing specifications. Based on this research, Strategic Economics will create a menu of possible building and use prototypes that have good potential for the different opportunity sites. These prototypes will include such key development feasibility factors as parking ratios and amount of retail square footage. This will assist Staff and the community in conceptualizing not only what kinds of uses, but also what types of building formats and site configurations are generally possible for the opportunity sites. As a part of this task, CD+A and Strategic Economics will attend a meeting with City Staff and members of the development community. In addition, CD+A (Erickson and Kronemeyer) and Strategic Economics (Belzer and Breznau) will attend SAAC Meeting #2 to review the work of this task; the potential of inviting speakers from the development community will also be explored. Work Products: ^ Brief memo summarizing the results of all demographic and real estate market research, as well as describing probable use and building development prototypes. ^ Financial models showing feasibility of various development programs for each site. EXHIBIT A Page 4 of 14 AGRE\EXHIBITA.DOC (Word 6.0)