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EDAW lNG WORK PROGRAM TRANSIT-ORIENTED SPECfFC PLAN FOR THE HACIENDA BUSINESS PARK SUBMITTED TO: EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION HACIENDA OWNERS ASSOCIAITON UNDERSTANDING AND APPROACH REDEFINING A VISION FOR HACIENDA BUSINESS PARK: CREATING A MIXED- USE, TRANSIT ORIENTED COMMUNITY Hacienda Business Park (Hacienda) was initially conceived as a world class economic center, catering to the needs of premier commercial ventures. Embracing what was, at the time, the preferred approach for such a venture, a master plan was prepared that accommodated individual needs via the creation of development sites large enough to meet the spatial requirements and decidedly auto-oriented expectations of anticipated tenants. These development sites were linked to one another and the adjacent City of Pleasanton by a roadway network of broad, heavily landscaped collector streets. This approach was considered to be fundamental to creating a thriving contemporary business park. This scheme has been largely successful, particularly from the perspective of economic development (it is estimated that Hacienda currently generates upward of 20% of the revenue contributing to the City of Pleasanton's General Fund). Over time, the composition of Hacienda has expanded beyond the original conception to include a mix of retail, residential, institutional, and public land uses. Recognizing the park's success, and seeing potential opportunities to improve upon it, this planning effort will focus on reconsidering the spatial relations between uses, specifically seeking to achieve the optimum potential benefits associated with the park's proximity to BART. Fundamentally, this will focus on both improving convehient connections to transit and carefully locating the most transit supportive land uses in close proximity to the station. Infill at San Mateo's Hayward Pad~ CalTrain Station Having evaluated the challenges and opportunities available to Hacienda today, a unique collaboration between East Bay Community Foundation and Hacienda has emerged. This team seeks to redh'ect the future of Hacienda by guiding the reinvention of key districts within the development and supporting the thriving uses already in place. This new vision is one which seeks to create a "better Hacienda" that fundamentally reconsiders the inseparable relationships amongst transportation, land use, and livability. It embraces: · A mix of transit supportive land uses, densities, and development patterns; · The creation of a highly wall~ble place defined by a strong public realm with meaningful public open spaces and plazas; · The continued success of existing businesses and the addition of new ones; · Carefully located and sized shops and restaurants;