CITY COUNCIL MEETING SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL

Submitted On: Nov 17, 2025, 06:33PM PST City Council Regular Meeting - Submit your written public comment City of Pleasanton Full Name First Name: Robert Last Name: Prinz Email (this entry is disclosable if included)robert@BikeEastBay.org Meeting type Regular Meeting Agenda Item Number 11 Comments Hello, this is a public comment on behalf of Bike East Bay for the November 18th, 2025, Pleasanton City Council meeting agenda item 11 — Dublin/Pleasanton BART Station Concept Plan. Bike East Bay encourages Council Members to support the full proposal for 1000 units of housing on the BART parking lot with a goal of 35% affordable housing, and a minimum of 20%. We also encourage Pleasanton to maximize both secure long term and short term bicycle parking on site with accommodations for cargo bikes and e-bikes. We also encourage Pleasanton to implement high quality, all ages and abilities bikeways on every public corridor through or adjacent to these future development sites. These include Class 4 physically protected bikeways, Class 1 multi-use trails, and Class 3 traffic calmed bikeways on narrow, low-traffic streets. Through this effort Pleasanton will join with many other East Bay jurisdictions that have been entering into BART station parking lot reuse, with many development success stories already implemented and more on the way. We can make our streets safer though infrastructure design upgrades. But to make our public spaces more bikeable and walkable we have to look to land use, and reducing the distances people must travel in order to accomplish daily tasks and errands. Transit-oriented, mixed use developments like the one proposed here in Pleasanton are a great way to accomplish this sustainably while also increasing affordability, as housing and transportation are the two largest burdens on family budgets in the United States at 33% and 17% respectively. Thank you for receiving these comments.