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In October 2015, City Council authorized staff to prepare a downtown parking plan. City Council was updated on the draft parking plan in December 2015 and July 2016. Between July and September 2016, the draft parking plan was presented to the Pleasanton Economic Vitality Committee; twice to the Bicycle, Pedestrian, and Trails Committee; the Downtown Vitality Committee of the Pleasanton Downtown Association (PDA); the Planning Commission, the Chamber of Commerce, and the PDA Board of Directors. In addition to presenting to these groups, staff sought public feedback on the draft parking plan by notifying interested parties by email when the item was discussed at the Planning Commission and City Council meetings. The meetings were also advertised on the City's social media platforms. Based upon input received throughout the process, a final draft parking plan, dated February 28, 2017, was created. This final draft was called the "Downtown Pleasanton Parking Strategy and Implementation Plan." On April 18, 2017, the City Council reviewed the Downtown Pleasanton Parking Strategy and Implementation Plan and adopted a resolution approving the document. The plan includes a list titled, "Top-Ten Strategies" in the Introduction and further describes them in Section 6: Implementation Plan. The first (1a and 1b) of the top ten strategies identified is, "Update and finalize the design of the Transportation Corridor" and "Construct identified improvements on the Transportation Corridor." In June 2017, in response to the adoption of the Council Workplan priority to "Expand and Improve Parking Downtown," and as part of the normal two-year budgeting process, the City Council approved the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for fiscal years 2017/18 through 2020/21 which included $2.2 million to further expand parking opportunities in the transportation corridor consistent with the Downtown Pleasanton Parking Strategy and Implementation Plan. The specific project in the CIP was described as expanding the existing parking in the corridor between Bernal Avenue and Abbie Street with a parking lot very similar to the parking lot at the Firehouse Arts Center. As proposed in the CIP, the project would create a two-way drive aisle with 90 degree parking stalls on each side, a separated concrete walking path, and landscaping. The description also discussed the need for a retaining wall as part of the project due to the grade differential across the width of the corridor. (Support for this specific project was reaffirmed as a part of the Council's Workplan in 2019.) In 2018, City Council awarded a contract to HMH Engineers (HMH) to provide engineering and design services for the expansion of the existing parking lot in the corridor between Bernal Avenue and Abbie Street. Preliminary layouts were developed and reviewed, based upon topographic surveys, to refine the exact layout of the parking lot. Project concept boards were developed, and meetings were held with all adjacent property owners, tenants and the PDA to discuss the project and its impacts. As part of this design process, color renderings based upon the 65 percent complete engineering plans and specifications were developed to more easily present the proposed design and show the parking, retaining wall, the concrete pedestrian walkway, and landscaping. The color renderings helped to visualize intent of the proposed plan much better than the engineering plans. The color renderings are included as Attachment 1 to this report. Page 3 of 10