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BAY FAIR TOD SPECIFIC PLAN Relationship to Regional Plans Plan Bay Area Plan Bay Area was jointly approved by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) in 2013, and is currently undergoing a strategic update called Plan Bay Area 2040. Plan Bay Area is the Bay Area's Sustainable Community Strategy (required by the state per Senate Bill 375), which provides an imperative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by creating more livable, equitable, and environmentally sustainable communities. It addresses land use, transportation, housing, economics, and sustainability in an integrated regional development plan for the Bay Area, with a particular focus on walkability and transit - oriented development. San Leandro and Alameda County PDAs San Leandro currently has two established PDAs: the Downtown TOD area and the East 14th Street Corridor (which shares a border with the northwest edge of the Bay Fair Specific Plan area). In addition, Alameda County has two established PDAs that are directly adjacent to the Bay Fair TOD Specific Plan area: the East 14th and Mission Boulevard PDA, which borders much of the Bay Fair project area to the East (including the BART parking lot and frontage along East 14th across from Bayfair Center), and the Hesperian Boulevard PDA, which extends along Hesperian Boulevard south from the Bay Fair TOD Specific Plan project area. While surrounded bythesevarious established PDAs, Bay Fair itself is only recognized by ABAG as a "Potential" PDA, shown in Figure 3.6 below. Creating the Bay Fair TOD Specific Plan will enable the Bay Fair area to gain PDA status from ABAG and MTC. Being a certified PDA makes an area eligible for a variety of federal, state, and regional funding, while strategically positioning an area to be consistent with regional planning and investment goals. Plan Bay Area's Bay Fair PDA Vision Plans for the area include creating a place that is attractive and safe; improving connections to jobs, services, and transit, providing a range of housing options; fostering fiscal and economic growth that favors the creation of a higher -density and mixed -use district that promotes walking, biking, and transit use. Strategies to achieve these urban design goals include; circulation and access for pedestrians, bicyclists, drivers, and transit users, parking management, market and financial feasibility; and design guidelines for higher -density development and ensuring appropriate transitions to existing neighborhoods. In particular, these strategies focus on adding more housing in the area while improving the circulation network between the BART site, Bayfair Center, and surrounding areas. (Plan Bay Area: Vision for Priority Development Areas, Jobs -Housing Connection Strategy, 2012) 20