.
BERKELEY Downtown -- Greenbelt Alliance Smart Infill Report
(72 pp, March 2002) Download
now! (5.5M pdf, 13 minutes via 56.6kbps).
Go to page 58. -- has used incremental infill and parking reductions
to gradually revitalize its downtown and the University Avenue corridor
while meeting housing needs. Projects include Shattuck
Senior Homes, University
Lofts, and Manville
Hall.
.
The
CASTRO VALLEY Strobridge
Court project at the Castro Valley BART station includes
a mix of 96 senior and family units and a BART police
substation on the ground floor, and is within walking distance of
downtown.
.
EMERYVILLE Greenbelt
Alliance Smart Infill Report
(72 pp, March 2002) Download
now! (5.5M pdf, 13 minutes via 56.6kbps).
Go to page 50. Emeryville has used infill to transform
itself from “a city of decaying industrial buildings into one of the
Bay Area’s redevelopment success stories.” Projects include the Avalon
Senior Housing and Emeryville
Warehouse Lofts.
.
The
FREMONT Downtown Plan, released in
2000, calls for a pedestrian-oriented, walkable, vibrant center
with sidewalks, new shops, and 1,500 units of housing in downtown
Fremont.
.
HAYWARD -- Greenbelt Alliance Smart Infill Report
(72 pp, March 2002) Download
now! (5.5M pdf, 13 minutes via 56.6kbps).
Go to page 57. -- uses transit- and pedestrian-oriented infill
to meet housing needs and promotes infill as a housing strategy
in its new General
Plan. Transit-oriented infill housing projects include
Ohlone-Chynoweth
Commons and City
Walk Townhouses.
.
LIVERMORE
East Town Village infill project
will place 68 townhomes and a daycare center in downtown Livermore,
within walking distance of the ACE train station, jobs, shops and schools.
.
OAKLAND Downtown infill -- Greenbelt Alliance Smart Infill Report
(72 pp, March 2002) Download
now! (5.5M pdf, 13 minutes via 56.6kbps). Go
to page 54. -- including the 10k Initiative.
Swan’s
Market,
a national model of mixed-use infill development, one block
from BART.Includes 20 units of affordable housing, ground floor
retail, incuding local produce, the Museum of Children’s Art and
a public plaza.
Preservation
Park is a redevelopment project bringing together
sixteen 19th-century Victorian homes from around the city to a two-block
site adjacent to City Center. The homes were renovated for use as
office and meeting space and leased primarily to nonprofit, public-purpose
organizations.
The Fruitvale
Transit Village project will convert most of the surface
parking lots surrounding the Fruitvale BART station into a mixed
use development, including a senior center, a health clinic,
a daycare center and a branch library, in addition to almost 250
family housing units (including lofts), and 70,000 square feet of
commercial/retail space. It is seen as a catalyst for reviving the
low-income neighborhood, formerly avoided by many BART commuters
who used the station.
.
The city
of DUBLIN
is planning a mixed-use housing, office,
and retail development with up to 1,500 housing units adjacent
to the Dublin/Pleasanton
BART Station. The project
will have a high density of 70 units per acre on the 90-plus-acre
site.
.
The
EL CERRITO, Del
Norte BART station, a regional transit hub,
serves as the entry to BART for commuters from Northern Contra Costa
and Solano counties. It is currently surrounded by large parking
lots and a multi-story 1300 space parking garage. In May 2002, BART
cleared the first hurdle in seeking the city’s approval for a redevelopment
plan that would turn the parking lots into a pedestrian-friendly,
transit-oriented, mixed-use development including townhomes and office
and retail space.
.
EL
CERRITO, Del Norte Place Transit-oriented,
mixed-use. Mixed income development. This four-story
apartment project has 135 residential units and 21,000 square feet
of ground floor retail space and is one block from the El Cerrito
Del Norte BART station. Almost half the project’s residents regularly
commute by BART. Twenty percent of the units are allocated to seniors
and 20 percent to low-income households.
.
PLEASANT
HILL Transit Village. Plans developed
with extensive community input will turn the BART station area, currently
dominated by a seven story parking garage and acres of parking, into
a mixed use transit village, including housing, retail, office
space and public space.
.
RICHMOND
Transit Village. Work on this new
transit village began in April 2002. It will create 200 townhouses,
houses, and live/work lofts; 15,000 square feet of retail space;
and a cultural center, adjacent to the BART/Amtrak station.
.
WALNUT
CREEK downtown retail and housing.
Greenbelt
Alliance Smart Infill Report
(72 pp, March 2002) Download
now! (5.5M pdf, 13 minutes via 56.6kbps).
Go to page 5.
.SAN
RAFAEL downtown infill. Greenbelt
Alliance Smart Infill Report
(72 pp, March 2002) Download
now! (5.5M pdf, 13 minutes via 56.6kbps).
Go to page 56.
.
MOUNTAIN VIEW
transit-oriented development.
Greenbelt Alliance
Smart Infill Report
(72 pp, March 2002) Download
now! (5.5M pdf, 13 minutes via 56.6kbps).
Go to page 51.
.
SAN JOSE San Jose citywide strategy.
Greenbelt Alliance Smart Infill Report
(72 pp, March 2002) Download
now! (5.5M pdf, 13 minutes via . 56.6kbps).
Ohlone Court, a 135-unit development of affordable family housing.
The development was part of a master-planned development done by Bridge
Housing in partnership with the Santa Clara County Transportation Authority.
Tamien
Station The
Tamien Child Care Center, a conveniently located, state-of-the-art
facility, offers highest quality care and education programs. It is
operated by Bright Horizons Children's Centers, Inc., a nationally
known day care operator, under contract to the Santa Clara Valley
Transportation Authority (VTA).
.
MILPITAS
Great
Mall of the Bay Area, MILPITAS Adaptive reuse of an old industrial site. This
1.2 million square foot mall is housed in a former Ford Motor Company
assembly plant. If we’ve got to have enormous shopping malls, let’s
at least put them in already developed areas.
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Mercy
Family Plaza Adaptive
reuse of a former historic hospital complex created this 36-unit
affordable housing project, satisfying both historic preservation
and housing goals.
.
Oriental
Warehouse. Adaptive reuse of an 1868 warehouse to
provide 66 condominium live/work loft units with ground floor parking.
.
Metreon,
Downtown redevelopment. Whatever you think of the Metreon,
it has attracted lots of people to San Francisco’s downtown.
.
Gateway
Business Park A 23-acre business park, with on-site child
care, ten minutes north of the SF International Airport.
.
Visitacion Valley, Transit Village:
At the request of the community, Urban Ecology held an all-day design
charette for a manufacturing site that Home Depot had acquired and
was ready to build its typical large box plus parking lot. UE’s design
fit much more than that on the site: housing, retail, space for branches
of a community college and library, and a well-designed connection
between the third street Muni light rail and the Caltrain line. UE’s
designs had the approval of most of the community, and they helped
the Visitacion Valley Planning Alliance do the political legwork that
they needed to do to pursue something more than a Home Depot. In
a major victory earlier this year, the Board approved zoning for this
site to encourage building a transit village.
.
Delancey
Street Mixed use, infill housing, commercial space and
amenities with underground parking. Housing is supportive transitional
housing for residents of Delancey Street Foundation’s program for
ex-cons. Residents are employed in numerous on-site businesses, including
a gourmet restaurant.
.
Amancio
Ergina Village Affordable, owner-occupied, cooperative, infill
housing. Better
Neighborhoods Program and
Mission Bay Development -- Greenbelt Alliance Smart Infill Report
(72 pp, March 2002) Download
now! (5.5M pdf, 13 minutes via 56.6kbps).
Go to page 5.
.
REDWOOD
CITY downtown revitalization. Greenbelt
Alliance Smart Infill Report
(72 pp, March 2002) Download
now! (5.5M pdf, 13 minutes via 56.6kbps).
Go to page 51.
.
MILLBRAE,
transit-oriented development around the future SFO BART station
Development
to include child care in Burlingame. Coyote Point at 301 Airport Blvd.
(Apparently, Glenborough Partners' plan to build 488,000 square feet
of office space on Airport Blvd. and had been turned down repeatedly
by the city's Planning Commission, so Glenborough offered to sweeten
the deal by donating land and a $3 million dollar building for a child
care center on site.)
. Legislative
CFN
Searchable Bill Tracking List, a useful service provided
free by California Futures Network. Includes names, numbers and
status of all bills touching on Smart Growth, even if they don’t
use that term. Lists bills according to 15 categories, including
housing, transportation, zoning, water, energy, regional issues,
etc.
. Publications
Smart
Infill -- Greenbelt Alliance’s new guide includes case studies and
photographs of infill projects around the Bay Area; includes resources
for citizen action. Greenbelt
Alliance Smart Infill Report
(72 pp, March 2002) Download
now! (5.5M pdf, 13 minutes via 56.6kbps).
Transit-Oriented
Development: Excellent League of Women Voters article
on transit-oriented development in the Bay Area:
“Smart
Growth News,” a free email newsletter containing abstracts
of Smart Growth articles, sent out bimonthly by the Urban Land Institute.
Development Case Studies,a database of 300+ case studies
from around the world, including a wide variety of project types,
including housing, retail, office, mixed-use, urban entertainment,
and more. Some of these are Smart Growth, others are definitely not
(e.g., Blackhawk in Danville). The Bay Area Smart Growth examples
are listed below under the appropriate counties. Summaries are free;
you must be a subscriber to read the full case studies, which include
a description of the development process and lessons learned, photos,
site plans, and project data.
. Local Government
Center
for Livable Communities, a project of the Local Government
Commission. Produces publications and events to help California policymakers
choose and implement Smart Growth. Resources include a monthly newsletter
and an image library.
Smart Growth Task Force Report
by the California Chapter of the American Planning Association.
This report, published in 2000, recommends the state articulate a
statewide vision for balancing growth with the environment, economic
and social equity concerns, and mandate greater consideration of social
equity concerns in local General Plans.
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