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Sustainability Program 2.2: Encourage the reuse of vacant and underutilized parcels and buildings within existing urban areas. Industrial, Commercial and Office Policy 12: Preserve the character of Downtown while improving its commercial and residential viability and preserving the traditions of its small-town character. Policy 13: Ensure that neighborhood, community, and regional commercial centers provide goods and services needed by residents and businesses of Pleasanton and its market area. Downtown Specific Plan The subject site is located within the DSP Area and is therefore subject to policies of the DSP. The subject site is designated Downtown Commercial with the Active Ground-Floor Use Overlay. The Active Ground-Floor Use Overlay applies to tenant spaces with a storefront fronting Main Street. "Active ground floor use" is defined in the DSP as "a use that promotes an active pedestrian environment on the ground floor of a commercial building, and includes retail establishments, restaurants, bars and brew pubs, art and craft studios, and other uses determined by the Director of Community Development to be substantially similar to the foregoing, or to have unique characteristics such that the objectives of the overlay district would be met". LD-P.17— Active Ground Floor Use Requirements for Multi-Tenant Buildings: For buildings that have multiple tenant spaces, apply the requirements of the Active Ground Floor Use Overlay to tenant spaces with frontage on Main Street, and certain streets within portions of the Mixed Use-Downtown District "designated active streets". LD-P.18— Active Ground Floor Use Requirements for Multi-Use Spaces: For tenant spaces accommodating multiple uses, a minimum of the first 25 percent of the depth of tenant space (measured perpendicular to the façade fronting a designated active street) must be occupied with an active use. Exceptions to this requirement may be granted, in accordance with LD-P.19. The Land Use and Design, and Economic Vitality chapters of the DSP encourage "active ground floor uses" within the Active Ground-Floor Use Overlay. Leasing first-floor tenant spaces to active uses is a priority of the DSP because active uses add interest to the streetscape and encourage pedestrian activity. In addition, active uses are more likely to remain open in the evenings and on weekends. This draws customers and thereby increases the downtown's economic viability. Staff believes the original proposal for a ground floor personal services use with ancillary retail sales (as submitted in May) is not consistent with the DSP policies and does not promote an active pedestrian environment similar to retail, restaurants or other establishments in the downtown. The updated proposal (as submitted in August) provides a dedicated retail area equivalent to 32-percent of the depth of tenant space, meeting the dimensional requirement specified in the DSP policies. P21-0820, 560 Main Street Planning Commission 6 of 9 reet. The front building is a multi-tenant, one- and two-story structure with the two-story portion adjacent to Main Street, stepping down to one-story behind. The other building on the subject site is a one-story, single-tenant building. A private parking lot is located at the rear of the property and has seven parking spaces. The appellant's tenant space is located on the ground floor of the front building and the tenant space is approximately 1,065 square feet. Figures 1 and 2 below show an aerial photograph of the subject site and a street view of the Main Street frontage. The subject site is bordered on the north, east and west sides (across Main Street) by commercial and office uses and on the south by a parking lot. P21-0820, 560 Main Street Planning Commission 3 of 9