Agmt 2002 Community Design and Architecture

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Task 3.3: Transportation and Parking Assessment At the City Staff Work Session with Public Agencies CD+A will conduct interviews with AC Transit, Caltrans, and Alameda County's Community Development Agency in order to coordinate this process with the development of the BRT system, planning efforts being undertaken by the county in the unincorporated areas to the south of the City, and other potential projects that the agencies may be planning. Gaining an understanding of the future BRT system is of particular importance, as its design will affect, amongst other factors, land use character; street character, sidewalk and roadway widths, street improvements, and the identification of key nodes along the Corridor. These conversations will provide the Team with an understanding of how each agency's potential actions could affect the design of streetscape improvements and the types of land uses appropriate along the Corridor. CD+A will review current General Plan policies, zoning requirements, and other policies related to parking requirements and transportation systems. CD+A, Fehr & Peers, and City Staff will meet to discuss potential impacts of these policies on the opportunities and needs for the project. Fehr & Peers previously evaluated existing and future (year 2015) transportation conditions on E 14`h as part of the San Leandro General Plan update process, including an analysis of the level of service (LOS) at the intersections of E 14t~' with Hesperian Boulevard / Bancroft Avenue, San Leandro Boulevard, Davis Street and Dutton Avenue. The expected conditions for 2015 assumed development and improvements would occur as called for in the General Plan, and it is expected that the development programs that will be proposed for the opportunity sites will be within the range of land use change defined in the General Plan analysis. The options being explored in this project will likely have a relationship to transportation assessment at two levels, first in terms of the overall street design and BRT concepts, and second in terms of the opportunity site studies. In relation to the street design concepts, Fehr & Peers would ..qualitatively and quantitatively (LOS) evaluate the impact of the proposed concepts for E 14`~ that could include Bus Rapid Transit, reduced number of lanes for motor vehicles, streetscape improvements and other improvements to benefit pedestrians and bicyclists at the following intersections: Hesperian Boulevard / Bancroft Avenue and San Leandro Boulevard. Assessment of additional intersections could be requested by the City and an optional budget per intersection is included in the budget attachment. In relation to the opportunity areas, Fehr & Peers will conduct a qualitative assessment of parking supply and parking policies within the study corridor. (More detailed parking data maybe collected by City of San Leandro staff, which would augment this analysis). This assessment would include an inventory of off-street parking that would be displaced by proposed development and recommendations to address potential neighborhood parking intrusion. It is our understanding that the City does not want to consider neighborhood-parking permits, so solutions will not consider this potential, but may include provision of short-term parking on side streets for the depth of the parcel along East 14t'' Street and locations and costs of potential off street parking supplies (possibly constructed from in-leau fees for sites that did not meet on-site parking demand. Additionally, it is likely to be necessary to review the potential impacts of the infill development of the opportunity sites on the surrounding circulation network in relation to motorized vehicle, pedestrian, and bicycle circulation. Fehr & Peers will conduct a qualitative assessment of capacity EXHIBIT A Page 5 of 14 AGRE~EXHIBITA.DOC (Word 6.0)