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Shaping the Lake Merritt Station Area Plan Community members, stakeholders, the City of Oak-land, BART and the Peralta Community College Dis-trict are in the process of planning for the future of the neighborhoods within a half mile of the Lake Merritt BART Station. This ongoing effort will result in the Lake Merritt Station Area Plan—a roadmap for devel-opment over the next twenty years. Please take a look at what we’ve done to date and join us this fall to provide feedback on the Emerging Plan! The shared vision for the Lake Merritt Station Area Plan includes the following broad priorities:
• Create an active, vibrant and safe district;
• Encourage services and retail;
• Encourage equitable, sustainable and healthy devel-opment;
• Encourage non-automobile transportation;
• Increase and diversify housing;
• Encourage job creation and access;
• Identify additional open space and recreation op-portunities;
• Celebrate and enhance Chinatown as an asset and a destination; and
• Model progressive innovations (i.e., economic, envi-ronmental, social).
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Lake Merritt StationArea Planning Areas
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What Have We Learned? The Lake Merritt Station Area Plan process has been underway since 2008. The City of Oakland has been working alongside community-based organizations, the local business community, elected officials, area institutions and neighborhood property owners and residents through a variety of methods including surveys, interviews, focus groups and public workshops. To date, participants in the planning process have contributed a great deal of valuable feedback about the future of the area. The fol-lowing are highlights from what the City has learned after three years and over a dozen workshops and meetings.
Community members identified the following changes to streets and pathways:
• Calm traffic and enhance street design by widening side-walks, and adding street trees and bus shelters; and consider converting some one-way streets to two-way traffic;
• Improve pedestrian safety with better lighting and by re-ducing vehicular speeds;
• Provide better bike access around the BART station and on select streets throughout the area;
• Improve street crossings for people walking near the Lake Merritt BART station, Laney College, Madison Square and Chinese Garden Parks, and accessing Lake Merritt;
• Improve street design and connections for people walking under the I-880 freeway;
• Create a gateway at 8th St. and Jackson St.;
• Improve connections between BART, Laney College and Chinatown; and to the East Lake neighborhood.
See the map below, Summary of Community Feedback: Trans-portation, for a graphic illustration of the community’s desired street improvements.
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Additionally, the community provided feedback on the types of parks, services and buildings they would like to see in the area:
• Improve and expand the number and quality of parks and community facilities (i.e., community centers);
• Parks and community centers were identified as being im-portant components of development on the BART blocks, in addition to office or residential development with ground-floor shopping and restaurants;
• Encourage a mix of shopping, restaurants, office, entertain-ment and residential uses throughout the area affordable to a wide range of incomes;
• Support new mid-rise and high-rise development;
• Permit housing, public uses and parks near Lincoln Square;
• Permit office and housing adjacent to the freeway;
• Create inviting uses under the freeway such as a “night market”;
• Many uses were identified for the Laney Parking Lot, such as retail, offices, college classrooms and a parking structure, among others; and
• Develop housing in the East Lake neighborhood with shop-ping and restaurants on the ground-floor.
See the map below, Summary of Community Feedback: Land Use Map, for a graphic illustration of the community’s desired land uses.
The Summary of Community Feedback Report that contains de-tailed feedback from public workshops, community stakeholder group meetings and focus groups is available on the project web-page http://www.business2oakland.com/lakemerrittsap.
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Contact us at any time with questions or suggestions.
Webpage: http://www.business2oakland.com/lakemerrittsap Email: [email protected] Message Line: 510.238.7904 This newsletter is also available in Chinese, please contact us for a copy.
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*These sites correspond to those listedin Table 2-2. For most sites, a widevariety of uses were suggested.However, sites where three or moregroups at the community workshopsrecommended the same types of landuse are graphically depicted with a black,bold outline. On those sites, iconsrepresenting the land use types thatwere most frequently suggested arealso illustrated. For sites where therewas either no feedback or no one landuse was suggested by three or moregroups, they are graphically depictedwith a thin, red line outline.
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NEXT STEPS: THE EMERGING PLAN
Help Shape the Emerging PlanNow we must make the difficult decisions to narrow the list of community-desired improvements to create a feasible plan for the future of the area. Going forward, some of the tough questions and considerations include:
• Given limited City resources, what are the priority streets for traffic and streetscape improvements?
• How can the edges and underpasses of I-880 be improved to lessen the highway’s negative impacts?
• How should parking be managed in the plan area?
• How can pedestrian connections be improved to Lake Merritt, the channel, and estuary?
• What are the key measures that can be implemented to help local businesses be more successful?
• What do you think could serve as a “catalyst project” to help jumpstart district improvements?
Contact the Lake Merritt Station Area Plan team to share your thoughts on these questions and considerations, [email protected].
Next StepsMajor milestones in the planning process are coming this fall and next spring.
This fall, a community meeting will be held to review a Draft Emerging Plan. The Emerging Plan will translate the community’s ideas and work-to-date into initial concepts and feasible proposals for the area.
Community Meeting To discuss a Draft Emerging Plan
Monday, September 12, 2011Laney College , Student Center/Cafeteria
900 Fallon Street @ 9th Street
Community and stakeholder review of the Emerging Plan will be reflected in the development of a Preferred Plan. The Preferred Plan will build on draft concepts in the Emerging Plan to create a more fully developed and vetted proposal. The Preferred Plan will be reviewed by stakeholder groups, advisory boards and elected officials. The resulting Draft Station Area Plan will then be studied for its environmental impacts.
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Stay Informed There are many opportunities for you to participate throughout the planning process.
• Visit the project website: www.business2oakland.com/lakemerrittsap
• Sign up for the Lake Merritt Station Area Plan e-mail distribution list. To be notified of all public workshops and hearings, please email your contact information to [email protected].
• You can also review planning documents by visiting any of the following locations:
» Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th Street
» Lincoln Square Recreation Center 250 10th Street
» City of Oakland Planning Department 250 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Suite 3315