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This will require time and education to shift the public's perception of how the industrial areas <br />relate to the rest of the city. <br />3.4.2. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS <br />3.4.2.1. Expand improvement of selected street segments or intersection areas with add-on LED <br />pedestrian lighting (Fig. 34), bus shelters or seating, high visibility crosswalk markings, <br />wayfinding signage, corner bulb -outs, and public art that stresses the district's industrial <br />heritage, sharing the cost of these with property owners and companies seeking "community <br />citizen" publicity. <br />After 3.3.2.3.1, Fourth Priority: Alvarado, Williams, Fairway/Aladdin, Wicks, Farallon, Doolittle. <br />3.4.2.2. After evaluation of first phase food pods (and parklets if utilized), consider expansion to <br />additional workplace district areas on both sides of 1-880. Locations to consider could include a <br />site in the frontage parking area of Westgate Center to focus and attract pedestrian activity. <br />3.4.2.3. Identify and implement a means of directly connecting and/or facilitating the north -south <br />traffic flow from Westgate Parkway to Merced Street and vice versa via the existing Williams <br />Street "dogleg" connection. This may be one or a combination of a street and property <br />realignment, and/or a modified traffic signal synchronization combined with directional and <br />identity signage and crosswalk improvements. <br />3.4.2.4. Define corridor street tree canopy planting programs along major industrial area district <br />corridors ("Boulevards"), similar to what San Leandro has successfully implemented on East 14`h <br />Street, MacArthur Boulevard, and Davis Street from 1-880 to downtown. <br />3.4.3. REGULATIONS <br />3.4.3.1. Following General Plan updating of the vision for the workplace districts, take steps to <br />introduce and prepare a form -based development regulations format. This may be through a <br />zoning overlay district. However, the most effective means will be through a coordinated <br />district -based area planning process and document (a Specific Plan or a Precise or Area Plan, <br />depending on the degree of infrastructure change necessary). In either case, a step-by-step <br />community-based workshop process is strongly recommended to provide education on existing <br />conditions, forces of change, economic and change potentials, and the physical format of <br />desired development. This will provide the most reliable means of building stakeholder <br />understanding and ownership for the vision and understanding of the tools and regulations to <br />position the district to take advantage of forces of change, as the city did in the mid -20th <br />Century. <br />As an example, potential technical steps in preparation of a form -based code could include: <br />0 <br />