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Downtown Oakland Specific Plan Plan Options Report Downtown Oakland Specific Plan Plan Options Report 1 Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................... 3 What to Expect from this Report ............................................................................................................................... 3 Relationship Between Plan Options Report and Equity Assessment Memo .............................................................. 3 Criteria for Selecting Among Options to Create the Preliminary Draft Plan .............................................................. 3 What Next? ............................................................................................................................................................... 4 Steps to the Final Specific Plan .................................................................................................................................. 5 Objective of this Report ............................................................................................................................................. 5 How to Use this Report .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Planning Process to Date ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Vision & Goals ........................................................................................................................................................... 7 Overview of Downtown Neighborhoods ................................................................................................................. 12 Focus Areas and Corridors ....................................................................................................................................... 19 Focus Area Development Options ........................................................................................................................... 22 Focus Corridor Mobility Alternatives ....................................................................................................................... 43 Strategy Options .................................................................................................................................................. 56 Housing and Affordability ....................................................................................................................................... 58 Jobs, Training & Economic Opportunity .................................................................................................................. 74 Arts and Culture ...................................................................................................................................................... 90 Land Use, Public Realm and Preservation ............................................................................................................. 107 Sustainability, Health, Safety, and Open Space ..................................................................................................... 120 Mobility, Connectivity, & Access............................................................................................................................ 137 Implementation and Ongoing Engagement .......................................................................................................... 164 Appendices ........................................................................................................................................................ 167 Appendix A: Equity Assessment Memo ................................................................................................................. 167 Appendix B: Disparity Analysis .............................................................................................................................. 167 Appendix C: Downtown Oakland’s Economic Role in the City and the Region ...................................................... 167 Appendix D: Fiscal Analysis of the Impact of Downtown Oakland Development .................................................. 167 Appendix E: Development-Based Tools to Preserve and Expand Arts and PDR Workspaces ................................ 167 Appendix F: Accessibility Survey Findings .............................................................................................................. 167 2 Introduction Downtown Oakland is undergoing rapid change. The change is bringing new energy to the streets, new investment, and new opportunities for pursuing new thresholds of personal and professional achievement potential that Oakland can offer its residents and visitors. But the change is also displacing longtime Oaklanders, shifting downtown’s culture, and making some in the community feel disconnected from the heart of their town. The policies regulating downtown development have not been updated for today’s economy, needs and expectations, or designed to protect what makes downtown “authentically Oakland.” The Downtown Oakland Specific Plan will update these policies to guide downtown development over the next 20-25 years to serve the broad needs of the community - including economic opportunity across investment and employment; an enhanced public realm for all to engage and enjoy; protection of artists, businesses and residents from displacement; and reduction of disparities in access to opportunity and quality of life. Time is of the essence to achieve these goals as the downtown changes around us, yet we must also move deliberately to take the time to hear all the voices representing the community, iterate ideas with the community, and advance a plan that reflects the values of our community. This Plan Options Report is the next step in this process. It summarizes the ideas that the City and consultants have heard from the community over the last two years and presents these ideas as a set of options to inform the Preliminary Draft Plan, which will be developed as the next phase toward developing the Draft Downtown Oakland Specific Plan. What to Expect from this Report The Plan Options Report presents the vision and goals that will provide a baseline for the planning of downtown Oakland. This report captures a framework that was developed over the past several months during extensive meetings with community members across a range of stakeholders and downtown neighborhoods. The report also contains the land-use development and mobility options that have congealed through community feedback, technical analysis and review of the City’s existing policies. The report contains several appendices, including the Equity Assessment Memo, which provides an assessment of the possible impacts of the options from the Plan Options Report. Together, the report and the appendices offer a set of ideas from which to create a draft of the Specific Plan, relating how these ideas would manifest to allow an initial evaluation toward making final determinations about the plan’s recommendations. Relationship Between Plan Options Report and Equity Assessment Memo The equity assessment was conducted on an initial draft of the Plan Options Report. Since the equity assessment was drafted, the Plan Option Report has been revised to incorporate those recommendations, which addressed: 1) the Specific Plan process; 2) the Plan Option Report; and 3) specific development and policy strategy options. Criteria for Selecting Among Options to Create the Preliminary Draft Plan The options in this Report are driven by community-stakeholder input, analysis of existing conditions, existing City policy, and review of strategies used in cities facing comparable issues. This Report evaluates the tradeoffs of key options based on how effective they will be at achieving goals, how well 3 they can reduce inequities, how politically and financially feasible they are, and whether the City has the legal and resource capacity to implement them. The following criteria will be used to select among options for land use development, mobility and supportive strategies to include in the Preliminary Draft Plan: 1. Effectiveness The Strategy Options section of this report provides an initial framework for measures of success that will help gauge the effectiveness of the Downtown Plan at achieving its intended outcomes. 2. Equity and Inclusive Community Engagement Phase II of the DOSP process sought to re-engage the broader community, particularly those from underrepresented groups, in a conversation about disparity and inequity in Oakland. This Report utilizes the Downtown Oakland Racial Disparity Analysis and the disparity indicators outlined therein as a baseline to inform whether the options contained in this Report are likely to improve equitable outcomes and close the disparity gaps. An equity assessment has been conducted of the options presented in this Report to help this evaluation. The assessment considers possible equity impacts of potential Specific Plan policies, programs, and projects, as well as identifying complementary strategies to enhance positive impacts and reduce negative impacts of Specific Plan recommendations. Addressed in tandem with this Report, the assessment will help ensure that the Specific Plan policies related to transportation, economics, housing, sustainability, urban design, and arts and culture properly address
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