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FOCUSING OUR VISION (FOCUS) PROGRAM Part 5 -Narrative What is the overall vision for this area? Hacienda Business Park (Hacienda) has evolved from its origins in the early 1980's when its master-plan called for "a commercial development designed to create a cohesive, visually unified business park with a sense of identity, distinction and quality." With the addition of residential development in the late 1980's and the arrival of BART and the commercial boom of the mid- 1990s, the composition of Hacienda has expanded to include a mix of retail, residential, institutional, and public land uses. In 2007, within the 873 acre park Hacienda's tenants include nationally-recognized corporations such as Oracle, Xerox, Shaklee, and AT&T; a 1,300-student public middle school, over 450,000 square feet of retail, and 1,500 residential units. Recognizing the park's success, and seeing potential opportunities to improve upon it, the Specific Plan effort currently underway will focus on reconsidering the special relationship between uses, specifically seeking to achieve the optimum potential benefits associated with the park's proximity to BART. The Plan will focus on both improving convenient connections to transit and carefully locating the most transit-supportive land uses in proximity to the station. The new vision is one 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 walkable 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; • The introduction of more housing; and, • The creation of well-defined and meaningful sub-districts that will serve both employees and residents. Although the Specific Plan will encompass the entire Hacienda Business Park, a focal area for transformation will be within ahalf-mile radius of the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station. In this 250 acre area, several vacant and underutilized parcels will be planned for mixed-use development, including housing densities of 30 units to the acre or above. In addition, improvements are planned to enhance the connectivity between jobs, housing, and transit in the area immediately adjacent and to the south of the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station. Improvements are designed to: • Support transit-oriented development projects to increase regional transit ridership; • Encourage pedestrian travel to and from the BART station, as well as within Hacienda Business Park; • Enhance the public realm to encourage walking, biking and use of public transit; • Improve the station area design to highlight BART connectivity to a full range of commute mode choices including: all local/regional bus services serving the station, public and private shuttles, rideshare, taxis, bikeways and pedestrian access. All the above improvements will play an important role in integrating existing and future land uses with the transportation network.