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.. Date: September 19, 2005 To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council From: Nelson Fialho, City Manager W Subject: West Dublin/Pleasanton BART Station - Joint Pleasanton-Dublin City Council Meeting BACKGROUND BART has been planning to construct a new West Dub1inlP1easanton BART station. The station would be located in the median ofI-580 and would connect via pedestrian bridges over the freeway to the Stoneridge Mall in P1easanton and to Dublin, The project would be a public/private partnership involving BART, Ampe10n Development Group, and the cities of Pleasant on and Dublin, Development projects would be constructed in both cities: In P1easanton there would be a parking structure and an office building while a parking structure, hotel, and apartments would be constructed in Dublin, This matter was previously discussed by the City Council and the Pleasanton-Dublin Liaison Committee in June-August of2003, At that time, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOD) was approved by the City Council which addressed various issues between the City, BART, and Stoneridge Mall regarding the proposed station, More recently, staff members from both cities met with BART and its development team in early August 2005 to receive a presentation on the project. On August 25,2005 BART and its development team presented the proposed project to the Pleasanton-Dub1in Liaison Committee, Representing the City of Pleasant on City Council were Mayor Hosterman and Counci1member Thome. The presentation and discussion which followed focused on design and parking, Two design options were presented, and the unanimous recommendation of the Committee was to support Scheme B (please refer to the following Discussion section,) DISCUSSION Site Plan: The site plan would be the same for both Scheme A and Scheme B. The layout of the station would locate the pedestrian concourse above the tracks, and the tracks would be at freeway grade, The pedestrian bridges would be angled from the station to the parking garage sites in each respective city, On the P1easanton side, the four-story parking structure plus a five-story office building would be located on BART's Stoneridge Mall Road site across from the Mall stores, A "village green" and plaza are proposed between the office building and Stoneridge Mall Road as an activity area and pedestrian amenity, A pedestrian connection between the BART site and the Mall would also be provided, ,