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Although the proposed sidewalk width on Bernal Avenue is two-feet less than the ten-foot Fed- eral recommendation for a combined bicycle/pedestrian sidewalk, statT considers the eight-foot width to be acceptable given that a bicycle lane will still be provided in Bernal Avenue and that sidewalks narrower than the Federal recommendation are used in the Hacienda Park - nine feet in width ~ and on the east side of Valley A venue - eight feet in width ~ for Pleasanton's seg- ment of the Iron Horse Trail. The separated sidewalk can be accornmodated along all project frontages, maintaining thc build- ing/landscape setbacks along these frontages without changing the site plan, except for the area between the main access driveway opposite Utah Street and Nevada Court. To rnaintain an ade- quate landscape area for a bio- swale between the sidewalk and the parking spaces, staff recom- mends deleting 15 parking spaces from the parking rows perpendicular to Bernal Avenue. This change would reduce the project's parking surplus from 57 parking spaces to 42 parking spaces. The applicant, however, does not concur with this requirement. The applicant indicates this is not necessary and that the site will accommodate the required sidewalk, bio-swalcs, etc. Iron Horse Trail Connection between the Northeast and Southeast Corners of Stanley Boulevard The Stanley Boulevard sidewalk will continue the Iron Horse Trail easterly from the southeast street corner to the easterly property line. Ponderosa Homes is required to complete the portion of the Iron Horse Trail on the east side of V alley Avenue to the northeast corner of Stanley Boulevard. The Iron Horse Trail is a regional trail system that, when completed, will provide a continuous pedestrian/bicycle route trom Martinez to Livermore. As its name would imply, the trail follows several former railroad alignments including the former Southern Pacific branch line connecting Plcasanton to the Concord/Walnut Creek area. The Iron Horse Trail is completed to the north side of the Union Pacific Railroad bridge. Ponderosa Homes is required to complete the trail to the northeast corner of the Stanley Boulevard/Valley Avenue/Bernal Avenue intersection. As initially planned, it would then provide southerly to this intersection's southeast street corner via a surface-level pedestrian crossing, and then along the south side of Stanley Boulevard - the north side of the development ~ to the Shadow Cliffs Regional Park, California Splash, and the City's BMX Park and then to Livermore. Figure II, which follows, shows the project site and the trail alignment. PCUP-165/PDR-529/PMOD-81-25-7 M Page 25 of48 December 13. 2006