1.The Diridon Station Area Plan needs to preserve San Jose’s downtown by increasing housing all over the Diridon Station Area instead of just the southern portion. This helps to strengthen San Jose’s traditional downtown of retail, restaurant, office, and civic uses. Allowing housing to be provided in a variety of locations will allow for a walkable community feel. Allowing more housing and walkability will allow for more people to make full use of Diridon Station Area Plan.

3.Diridon needs to be a housing supported transportation hub that has pleasant, safe, healthy, and efficient access to downtown, not an extension of downtown.

4.Diridon needs to provide accessibility for people of all various needs, including seniors, youth, and people with disabilities. The senior populace, adolescents, and people with disabilities will require different urban intensi-ty; yet prefer to live near transit with easy accessibility. This is especially true amongst seniors because there is a need for variety of services within walking distance.

6.Consolidate and unbundle parking in new residential and commercial buildings to establish land use intensity for multi-modal circulation patterns.

1.On page 191 of the DEIR, the project is going to exceed the BAAQMD threshold on Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) and Nitrogen Oxides (NOx). VOCs can be harmful to human health, causing dangerous short-term and long-term adverse health effects. NOx is a greenhouse gas and contributor to climate change.

1.We ask that DSAP have some mitigative solutions to climate change. Currently, the County of Santa Clara trails behind Contra Costa for second place with 19.6% (18.8 MMT/Yr) of total CO2 emissions released within the entire Bay Area.

2.Green Building certification or at least certification standards. By setting these standards it’ll increase the longevity of the building and cut down of resources used building and operating each building.

3.Meet LEED Neighborhood Development or LEED Equivalent - Gold or Platinum.

5.Require use of Forest Steward-ship Council (FSC) wood and recycled wood for at least 75% of the project’s wood needs, including wood used during construction.

6.Encourage the installation of energy efficiency retrofits by creating a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, which allows qualified residential and non-residential property owners to repay the cost of installing energy efficiency retrofits on their property tax bill. See City of Fremont’s Climate Action Plan under E-A3.

4.Include plan for the urban forest.

2.Mitigation should address gaps and efficiency for multi-modal circulation. Many community benefits (see list below) will reduce air pollutants through circulation efficiency by making neighborhoods more complete through a larger variety and development intensity of land uses.

3.Although the DEIR includes CSJ as an area with high levels of toxic air contaminants (TAC) and mentions the adoption of BAAQMD’s Community Air Risk Evaluation (CARE) program, it does not provide any recommen-dations to reduce these emissions specific to the Plan. We recom-mend the City of San José to create measures to reduce cancer risk and the negative impacts to sensitive receptors specific to Diridon Station. This in effect will help the CARE program become more successful.

Do more than the minimum required pollution prevention as suggested in the DEIR. Since this plan encompasses a large plan-ning area where multiple develop-ments will be constructed near sensitive waterways, it is reason-able to require innovative storm-water infiltration measures that can mitigate cumulative impacts and support General Plan Policies ER-8.5 and MS-3.4.

Asking for additional mitigation efforts, must include increase of trash/recycling/compost bins with proper enclosures to avoid runoff, such as one bin every 250 feet along sidewalks, as well as creek trails. This helps to lower littering due to the increase of human foot traffic.

Implement local compost and water conservation programs into community gardens that replenish the water table and provide local storage of compostable materials.

The City of San Jose must conduct a much more thorough analysis of DSAP’s impact from sea level rise by considering it a “Significant Impact” with mitiga-tions incorporated. Climate change and sea level rise are known to have alarming effects on life since temperature increases and so can water contamination with harmful pathogens and chemicals. This is dangerous for human exposure, especially given Diridon Station Area Plan’s proximity to the Guadalupe River.

2.Create more complete neighborhoods in dilapidated areas by providing land use diversity: open space, child care centers, medical/dental clinics.

7.Bolster native landscapes to safeguard natural capital from the built environment through a whole landscape approach.

Land Use

air quality

hydrology

green house gases 1.Riparian Corridor Setbacks should

be based of the Riparian Corridor Policy Study so that development doesn’t encroach on the wildlife depending the corridor.

2.Include San José General Plan 2040 Policy ER-2.5: “Restore riparian habitat through native plant resto-ration and removal of non-native/in-vasive plants along riparian corridors and adjacent areas.”

3.Integrate bird-friendly building and site design, similar to the City of San Francisco, City of Oakland, and City of Sunnyvale.

biological resources

5.Reduce the freeway oriented urban form in San Jose by restoring ecological services for flood control and cooler temperatures through the greening of the landscape from

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transportation

1.Form a Transportation Demand Management Agreement (TDMA) to decrease single occupancy vehicles and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

2.Provide free or discounted transit passes to both residents and employees within the project boundary provided or subsidized by developers, local government,

Implement car and bike share, mobility management like carpool programs, and emergency ride home services.

Conduct a Study in which no High Speed rail option is taken into account.

Do Not Widen the Roads: By giving more privilege to the car, you are discouraging the use of public transportation. Instead enhance infrastructure for pedes-trians and bikes.

Shuttles & Community Benefit District: The DEIR must empha-size the use of public

shuttles to the project area not only to downtown, but also to abutting communities.

Improve bicycle access routes into the station area. Convert high usage routes to bicycle boule-vards to increase participation.