Downtown San Leandro Transit-Oriented Development Strategy EIR

City of San Leandro, as a subconsultant to BMS Design Group

DC&E served on a consultant team that assisted the City of San Leandro in developing a transit-oriented development (TOD) strategy for its downtown area. The two primary goals of the project were to create a vibrant and distinct destination with a high level of transit and pedestrian accessibility, and to encourage increased use of existing transit infrastructure. The project identified sites and developed designs to achieve these goals through infill development and increased density within a half-mile radius of a proposed Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) station and the existing San Leandro BART station. DC&E prepared the programmatic EIR on the TOD Strategy, which required careful consideration of issues associated with higher density residential and commercial development, including increased population, potential noise impacts to new residents downtown, aesthetic impacts, and impacts to historically significant structures within the plan area. This project won the Northern California Section APA Award for Focused Issue Planning in 2008.