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Objective Design Standards for Housing Sites City of Pleasanton - 12 - DRAFT: December 14, 2022 PART 3 DESIGN STANDARDS A. SITE DESIGN AND PLANNING The intent of these standards is to provide a quality entry experience for visitors and residents. Sites shall provide a distinct hierarchy of circulation including Public Streets, Internal "Streets" or drives, Pedestrian walks/paseos, Bicycle paths and alleys / parking areas (see definitions in Glossary of this document). These should be arranged so that visitors and residents use the primary circulation of public streets, internal streets and drives and pedestrian walks / paseos and bike paths for their primary circulation and addressing of the units and building orientation. A1. SITE CIRCULATION Site circulation should facilitate pedestrian and bicycle use and will link housing, workplaces, schools, transit, parks and other facilities essential to the daily life of Pleasanton residents. Design Standards All Housing Site Development A1.1 Where provided, Internal Streets shall be designed similar to Public Streets and shall provide sidewalks, street trees, and pedestrian-scale lighting. A1.2 Alleys and parking areas should not be used for primary circulation to the building entries and through the site. If individual unit entries are provided, a maximum of 25 percent of individual unit entries in each building shall be allowed to front Alleys and Parking Areas in each project. Alleys shall only be allowed at multifamily development. A1.3 Pedestrian circulation shall not be routed directly through parking areas, parking drive aisles, or alleys and shall comply with the Standards in Section A7 though use of a fence or low wall and landscaping. Pedestrian circulation shall be required to be separated from the following areas by a minimum four- foot-wide planting strip: Surface parking areas Surface parking drive aisles Alleys, service courts, or other loading areas A1.4 Pedestrian circulation shall be accommodated on sidewalks built to a minimum width of five feet and include shall include decorative paving at crossings, landscaping/trees, and lighting. A1.5 Pedestrian circulation shall be accommodated on sidewalks built to a minimum width of five feet and include shall include decorative paving at crossings, landscaping/trees, and lighting. Pedestrian circulation shall comply with the dimensional standards set forth in these Objective Design Standards: Pedestrian circulation abutting Public Streets shall comply with the standards in Section A3. Pedestrian circulation abutting Internal Streets shall comply with the standards in Section A4. Pedestrian circulation abutting buildings shall comply with the standards in Section A6. Pedestrian circulation abutting parking lots shall comply with the standards in Section A7. A1.6 Developments adjacent to city public trail system shall provide private resident access to the public trail system. A1.7 Where street connections to adjacent neighborhoods are infeasible due to demonstrated topographic constraints, existing infrastructure, or jurisdictional restrictions, pedestrian or bicycle connections Page: 16 Author: TZB Subject: Note Date: 12/19/2022 4:32:52 PM MSR general comment: As noted in our December 14, 2022 letter to the Planning Commission, it is premature for the City to adopt comprehensive ODS without allowing sufficient time for community input and thoughtful decision-making. As noted in several of the comments below, several of the proposed ODS are likely unworkable based on modern development and market requirements, meaning that many housing development projects on HEU sites would need to go through the City's time-consuming traditional PUDrezoning process that HCD correctly requested the City to analyze. Several of the ODS are also "subjective" and therefore not enforceable under state housing law. We recommend that the City focus its time and resources only on adopting the HEU with corresponding General Plan land use element amendments by January 2023. The City could then proceed with a comprehensive adoption process for ODS and IZO amendments over the following months. Author: Steve Subject: Replace Text Date: 12/14/2022 8:39:31 AM Not an objective standard Author: Steve Subject: Replace Text Date: 12/14/2022 8:40:23 AM Not an objective standard Author: Steve Subject: Note Date: 12/19/2022 3:42:10 PM Why only allow alleys on multifamily? Attachment 4 - ODS Public Comments - 01-26-23 CC - Page 14