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Meghan Campbell (i FARE LLA <br /> November 30, 2022 BRAUN+MARTELiw <br /> Page 3 <br /> and listed them. Id at pp. 22-31. The Dublin/Pleasanton station failed to rank highly in any of <br /> the three categories: market readiness, local support, or infrastructure readiness including <br /> alternative parking and intermodal transit facilities. The project was shown as being a"long <br /> term""Beyond 2030"site on figure 4 (p. 25). <br /> Notably, on its"5-Year and 10-Year Development Priorities"chart, BART explained that <br /> it would only develop 1-2 stations per year, and in listing the sequence of stations that it would <br /> work on, listed thirteen stations as prioritized over the ten station group that included <br /> Dublin/Pleasanton. Dublin/Pleasanton was included in a group with nine other stations <br /> described as ones where BART plans to craft development plans in 2025-2030, only if it can <br /> obtain additional funding for staff to do so. A more recent update on BART's website confirms <br /> that"as of March 2021," development of the Dublin/Pleasanton station is not currently"in <br /> planning,"but that eight other stations are. HAC Appendix Tab 4. <br /> Pleasanton's draft housing element also isn't listening to what BART itself is saying <br /> about its plans, even if they were to go forward within the next eight years. While Pleasanton's <br /> plans for BART are for 555 units of lower income affordable housing, BART itself says it <br /> considers the capacity of all of the BART parking lots at the Dublin/Pleasanton station (both the <br /> ones on the Pleasanton side and the ones on the Dublin side)to be 557 units with 195 affordable, <br /> after taking into account the practical need for parking and intermodal facilities. BART says that <br /> it plans to develop over 550,000 square feet of commercial space on the Dublin/Pleasanton <br /> parking lots. HAC Appendix Tab 5. BART's published plan directly rejects that it will build <br /> only residential housing at the Dublin/Pleasanton station: "BART will not consider residential <br /> only development for sites shown in Figure 5 and will proactively market them to large <br /> employers, and partner with local jurisdictions to catalyze office or other job-generating uses." <br /> Meanwhile, BART's discussion of the issue has not indicated whether any potential development <br /> will be on the Dublin side or Pleasanton side. <br /> Pleasanton's housing inventory, by listing 100%of BART's parking lots for 100% <br /> affordable housing, lacks substantial evidence to conclude that BART will "likely"discontinue <br /> use of these two parcels. Pleasanton should not count on this site as meeting the need for 555 <br /> units of affordable housing during the 2023-2031 period. <br /> 2. The Kaiser Parking Lot(APN 941-1201-52-3) <br /> As the letter from East Bay for Everyone notes, the parking lot at the Kaiser Pleasanton <br /> Medical Offices is actively used by the facility, for parking. The draft inventory counts this site <br /> as providing 182 lower income units. <br /> Absent substantial evidence that the use of the parking lot is likely to discontinue—which <br /> would make little sense, given the need for doctors, nurses, patients, and lab technicians to get to <br /> this busy facility—the city cannot count the parcel towards the need for affordable housing. <br /> Building department records show extensive recent renovations. See, e.g., Pleasanton Building <br /> Department Record B22-2534(estimated $475,000 job value for tenant improvements on the Pt <br />