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. New urban design for Hacienda. The creation of a mixed use, transit oriented community in Hacienda would entail the transformation of at least the area immediately surrounding the BART station from a business park with wide streets, large surface parking lots, and large single-use buildings with substantial landscaped setbacks, to a closely spaced, connected grid of walk able streets, mixed use buildings with pedestrian interest and amenities, public plazas and green spaces, pedestrian walkways, and more concentrated urban activity. For example, Owens Drive, which is currently a six lane thoroughfare separating the BART station property from businesses and vacant land to the south, may be narrowed and reconfigured with on- street parking and pedestrian amenities in an effort to provide a better pedestrian connection to BART from surrounding new mixed use development. The presentation will provide some images of what these urban design changes may look like. Staff and the project sponsors are seeking City Council and Planning Commission feedback on the TOD concept. . Trip Capture and Mode Split assumptions. The consultant team has spent some time researching the appropriate assumptions to use for "trip capture" rates which measure the percent of trips that are made internal to the development. The assumption is that mixed-use development will result in more trips being made within the development as compared to a traditional development where office, retail, and residential uses are separated and require more external trips. The consultants are also researching factors that maximize internal "trip capture". Currently they are working with a range of assumptions. These include one study which shows an estimate of between 7 percent and 10 percent of trips which would be made between uses in the Park if approximately 1,600 residential units were added; another study which estimates approximately 28 percent of employees in a non-Central Business District mixed-use development will use retail uses in that development; and a further study which shows that about 30 percent of residents in the mixed-use area may be expected to work in the same area, and 37 percent of midday retail trips being internal to the mixed-use area. The consultants will continue to evaluate these and other studies for their applicability to the Pleasanton case. The consultants will also be researching the anticipated impact of a Transit Oriented Development in reducing the percentage of trips by automobile and increasing non-auto trips (public transit or walking). . Community Participation. Project sponsors anticipate holding at least one community workshop to present preliminary alternative plans and to gather public comment prior to selecting a preferred plan. A community workshop will also be held to discuss the Draft Specific Plan. Information on the Specific Plan process and background reports will continue to be available at: htto://tod.hacienda.orgl. SR 05:304 Page 4