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CityCouncil | 2010-07-07 | 15 | project was designed by the Peter Calthorpe who coined the term TOD and first came up with the concept; Mr. Calthorpe has a series of design principles that he has worked on for over 30 years to get it to the point where the land use, the built environment and the transportation system all work together; the project has all the features that are part of the true definition of TOD: range of housing densities, diversity of commercial uses, vertical mixed use, horizontal mixed use, everyday conveniences so that people are not forced to get into their car and drive to do everyday errands because it is within walking distance; people can choose to walk or drive their cars a short distance, but still remain in Alameda Point; TOD is proven and demonstrated in the Bay Area; he has even done some research for the State of California; surveys have shown that TOD produces half or less traffic than similar forms of development in suburban areas without transit; the project is designed to be accessible to transit; most of the project, about 85% to almost 90%, is within a ten minute walk of the center transit terminal which will be the ferry terminal and where the BRT system comes through; the State of California has created a check list that has the best way to tell if a project is TOD; that he has gone through the checklist; the project has everything on the checklist ; further stated the components of transit plan are: high frequency transit to BART; priority improvements will be made along the routes being proposed for the phased BRT system to both the 12th Street and the Fruitvale BART stations; there will be direct ferry service to San Francisco from the Seaplane Lagoon by bifurcating from the Oakland service; that he is meeting with WETA tomorrow to go over the financial analysis and ridership analysis that SunCal prepared; an intermodal transit center serves the ferry and bus system; free transit passes to all residents, which is a motivation to use public transportation ; a shuttle system that goes to the 12th Street BART station is in the first phase of development; the shuttle goes every 15-minute during peaks and only stops on site, but off-site people can use it if they wish; in phase three Rapid Bus will start; the system does not have a dedicated lane, but operates with a transit priority options on the street, such as queue jump lanes to bypass congestion at intersections, and triggering traffic signals to work in favor of transit; in the forth through fifth phase, BRT is introduced, which has dedicated travel lanes on the proposed corridor; the proposed route starts at the ferry terminal intermodal center and travels along the Lincoln Avenue and Tilden Avenue corridor to get to the Fruitvale BART station; stations are being located at half mile intervals, which is about the distance BRT should be located; a route also goes to the 12th Street BART station; 50% of Alameda residents have one car or no cars and at least one member of the household likes to use transit; 16% of Alameda residents take transit to work already, which is one of the highest transit mode shares in the entire Bay Area; 34% of Alameda residents are within a 5-minute walk of the [BRT] route, which makes 25,000 people and 11,000 households served by the route. Mayor/Chair Johnson inquired whether resident means a resident over a certain age. Mr. Daisa responded in the negative; stated all residents are accessible here. Mayor/Chair Johnson clarified that she is asking whether the 50% of residents who own Special Joint Meeting Alameda City Council, Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority, and 14 Community Improvement Commission July 7, 2010 | CityCouncil/2010-07-07.pdf |