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- Policy BE-11.2: Improve the corridors to create a network of “green streets” that address the environmental impacts of street paving. The project provides street trees, planters, and climbing vines along the building frontages to reduce the impacts of the street paving. The project also complies with state and city requirements for stormwater management. - Policy BE-11.3: Plan for and accommodate mixed‐use projects along corridors, where a site or sites are developed in an integrated, compatible, and comprehensively planned manner involving two or more land uses. Combine residential and office uses with commercial development to reduce automobile trips and encourage walking, and facilitate compact, sustainable development. The project is mixed-use with 2,900 sq. ft. of neighborhood retail/personal service space on the ground floor fronting El Camino Real, and residential units on the upper floors. The project site is within walking distance to Downtown, transit center (CalTrain), grocery stores, and other goods and services. - Policy BE-11.5: Improve public streetscapes along the corridors, including widened sidewalks and crosswalks, protected crosswalks, regular street tree planting, bus shelters and street furniture, and pedestrian‐oriented street lighting. The project provides widened sidewalks with street trees, pedestrian lighting, bike racks, and planters, consistent with the DTPP. There is not a bus stop on this block. - Policy BE-11.6: Provide that buildings located along corridors be designed to define the public realm, activate sidewalks and pedestrian paths, and provide "eyes on the street" in accordance with the following principles: o Emphasize pedestrian orientation in site and building design, promoting a walkable environment with active street frontages, well‐scaled buildings, and usable site spaces. o Minimize the visual impact of parking facilities on all public streets. o Locate the frontages of buildings directly adjacent to the public sidewalk. o Provide public open spaces for public enjoyment, and include outdoor seating or other amenities that extend interior uses to the sidewalk. o Minimize driveways, as they interrupt the continuity of street facing building elevations; prioritize their location to side streets and alleys. o Utilize building patterns that mix the heights of elements, and consider adjacent lower scale development as applicable. The project provides an active pedestrian environments along the corridor with “eyes on the street” through active ground floor uses and ground floor transparency, a three-story building scale with usable decks on the fourth floor, underground parking with garage entrances from the alley and rear elevation street (Franklin), a strong building edge along the sidewalk, with a central 8.A. - Page 59