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2013 RTP and 2012 CWTP 3 April 4, 2011 DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS The City's General Plan, the General Plan's Transportation Element, the Downtown Transit - Oriented Development Strategy and the East 14 South Area Strategy move the City toward improved mobility in San Leandro by reducing dependence on single occupancy vehicles. The emphasis of the Transportation Element is on providing more diverse transportation options and making sure these options are convenient, safe, and affordable. The General Plan's land use and community design policies reinforce the Transportation Element by promoting a development pattern where public transit, bicycling, and walking can be more easily supported. The General Plan and Transportation Element present traffic forecasts for 2015, providing the basis for a list of recommended improvements. Like the iM - TC, one of the first priorities set by the General Plan Advisory Committee's Transportation Subcommittee was to ensure that the City's plans and programs recognize the link between transportation and land use. In practice, this means encouraging more compact development around transit stations and major bus lines, integrating a variety of land uses within new projects, and ensuring that the urban environment is designed first and foremost for people rather than cars. These are similar to the priorities that the MTC and ACTC will use to distribute funds that come into the region. If our projects reflect these priorities, the likelihood for funding will increase. Additionally, under SB 375 each region must develop an SCS that promotes compact, mixed -use commercial and residential development that is walkable and bikable and close to mass transit jobs, schools, shopping, parks, recreation and other amenities and incentives through funding implementation of these priorities. The City's General Plan identified the following projects: Project Funding Source Timing Lead Agency Widening of 1 -238 from four to eight lanes (CMP) Measure B 2CO3 Caltrans Widening of Marina Blvd. to six lanes from Federal and /or 2003.2004 City of San Leandro Teagarden Street to San Leandro Blvd. State Grants Southern extension of Westgate Parkway to Measure B 2004 City of San Leandro Williams Street (CMP) Geometric improvements and signal interconnects Measure B 2005 City of San Leandro at the East 14th /Hesperian /150th Ave 'triangle." (CMP) 1-880 ramp improvements at Washington Avenue Caftans 2003 Caftans and Beatrice Avenue. (CMP) New southbound right turn lone from Hesperian to Measure B 2003 City of San Leandro Lewelling, and additional westbound lane to 1 -238 on -ramp. (CMP) West San Leandro Plan Improvments: DFSI By 2010 City of San Leandro ■ Improve Eden Road and extend west /southwest Grants to Davis Street. Redevelopment ■ Signalize the Eden /Doolittle intersection Project Funds ■ Extend Polvorosa Avenue west from Aurora to Neptune • Terminate Aurora and Neptune in cul-de -sacs north of Williams (to prevent through -truck traffic)