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Alternately, provide direction to staff on what type of adjustments to the design concept are desired. FINANCIAL STATEMENT The parking lot improvements are funded in the Capital Improvement Program with $2.2 million budgeted in fiscal year 2017/18. Another $1 million in additional funding is included in the fiscal year 2019/20 CIP budget. BACKGROUND In 2002, the City adopted the "Master Plan for the Downtown Parks and Trails System." The master plan focused on eight areas of downtown. One of those areas was the old Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way, which was owned by Alameda County at the time. The master plan called this old railroad right-of-way the, "Regional Trail Corridor." The master plan included recommendations for, "developing the corridor so it can become an amenity with a park-like character, capable of supporting a variety of uses." The master plan indicated the corridor could be used to create parking for downtown, as well as support bicyclists, pedestrians, joggers, equestrians, and other non-motorized vehicle uses. The master plan acknowledges the corridor in downtown Pleasanton as, "a key link in the area-wide regional trail system envisioned by the East Bay Regional Park District." (The park district's vision of how the corridor becomes part of the regional trail system is shown on page 63 of City of Pleasanton's Trails Master Plan.) The 2002 master plan also suggested development of the corridor should include setting aside a 35-foot-wide portion of the corridor that could accommodate the possibility of future light rail transit. It also suggests pedestrian/bicycle facilities should be 10-foot wide concrete paths with a minimum 3-foot landscaped area setback from property lines. In addition, the plan recommends development should include a 6-foot-wide unpaved multi-use path also with at least the same 3-foot wide setback. Since the corridor was not owned or controlled by the City of Pleasanton at the time, these were considered recommendations. Ultimately, there is not adequate width to implement every one of the recommendations. However, the 2002 plan did inform the design of the Firehouse Arts Center parking lot and has also guided the Bernal Avenue to Abbie Street design work and outreach effort with adjacent property owners. At their meeting on June 17, 2008, the City Council approved the purchase of the Alameda County Transportation Corridor, between Bernal Avenue and Old Stanley Boulevard, from Alameda County. The goal was to expand the parking within the corridor to an estimated 429 parking spaces, as well as maintain the continuation of the local trail system through downtown Pleasanton. In 2011, the parking lot adjacent to the Firehouse Arts Center was constructed in the corridor. This parking lot added 91 parking spaces, an 8-foot wide concrete path, and a 6-foot multi-use path between Ray and Neal streets. This was the first parking lot improvement since the City purchased the corridor in 2008. The FHAC parking lot set the example, or de facto standard, for future parking lot construction in the corridor. Page 2 of 10