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This studio project will build upon long-term and newly developing relationships among local, regional and state transportation agencies, UC Berkeley researchers, and private nonprofit organizations to develop an implementable plan for one such arterial, San Pablo Avenue on the Eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay Area. This 4-6 lane urban arterial runs through low and moderate income, mixed race, urban and suburban communities in nine cities and two counties.

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Infill development along transit corridors is a key element of smart growth, and revitalization of older, low and moderate income neighborhoods and their business districts is an important smart growth strategy. In many such neighborhoods and business districts, the principal street(s) are multi-lane arterials traversed by high volumes of cars, trucks, and buses uneasily sharing the space with pedestrians and bicycles. Maintaining reasonable traffic flow while providing bus priority and pedestrian and bike comfort and safety has been a daunting problem. Likewise, infill development has been difficult to achieve due to high costs (to developers and to communities), complex approval processes, and in some cases, community opposition to change.

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We will join elected officials and staff to test whether cooperative, multimodal, multidisciplinary plans can overcome barriers to environmentally friendly modes and infill development. Students drawn from the planning, engineering, public policy, energy and resources, and urban design groups at Berkeley will work with stakeholders to develop street, sidewalk, and transitway designs and innovative traffic operations plans aimed at increasing transit, walking, and biking in the San Pablo Corridor while accommodating but calming auto and truck traffic. They will identify sites and develop designs for higher density mixed income housing, retail, and office uses, and will propose zoning changes and other development incentives as needed. Resident, merchant, property owner and developer surveys, interviews, focus groups, charrettes and workshops will guide the work and help assure that products are sustainable, responding to concerns and aspirations about equity, quality of life, economic prosperity, and environmental quality people, prosperity, and the planet.

Cost :$10,000.00

Research Component :Pollution Prevention/Sustainable Development

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We will join elected officials and staff to test whether cooperative, multimodal, multidisciplinary plans can overcome barriers to environmentally friendly modes and infill development. Students drawn from the planning, engineering, public policy, energy and resources, and urban design groups at Berkeley will work with stakeholders to develop street, sidewalk, and transitway designs and innovative traffic operations plans aimed at increasing transit, walking, and biking in the San Pablo Corridor while accommodating but calming auto and truck traffic. They will identify sites and develop designs for higher density mixed income housing, retail, and office uses, and will propose zoning changes and other development incentives as needed. Resident, merchant, property owner and developer surveys, interviews, focus groups, charrettes and workshops will guide the work and help assure that products are sustainable, responding to concerns and aspirations about equity, quality of life, economic prosperity, and environmental quality people, prosperity, and the planet.

Cost :$10,000.00

Research Component :P3 Challenge Area - Built Environment

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