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7A Page 2 1. Target housing and job growth in strategic areas along the corridor. 2. Encourage compact mixed-use development and high quality urban design and construction. 3. Create a pedestrian-{)riented environment and improve streetscapes, ensuring full access to and between public areas and private developments. 4. Develop a balanced multimodal corridor to maintain and improve mobility of people and vehicles along the corridor. 5. Manage parking assets. 6. Provide vibrant public spaces and gathering places. 7. Preserve and accentuate unique and desirable community character and the existing quality of life in adjacent neighborhoods. 8. Improve safety and public health. 9. Strengthen pedestrian and bicycle connections with the corridor. 10. Pursue environmentally sustainable and economically viable development patterns. . Attachment 2 includes the full text of the GBI Guiding Principles, including Potential Strategies for each. These Strategies are examples only and the City does not commit to performing them as part of this approval. The guiding principles relate to existing City plans. For example policies in the existing General Plan that relate to the GBI Principles include, but are not limited to the following: . Land Use Policy L-3: Higher residential densities should be promoted at locations near or within commercial and financial centers, employment centers, and transportation terminals. . Land Use Policy L-4: Commercial land should be distributed in a manner that maximizes community accessibility to a variety of retail commercial outlets and services and minimizes the need for automobile travel. . Land Use POlicy L-6: The City should promote the revitalization, upgrading, and beautification of the Downtown, other shopping centers, and existing strip commercial areas. . Public Transportation Policy PT -1: Identity and designate areas on arterial streets that are used as bus routes, particularly EI Camino Real and Woodside road that are potentially suitable for medium density residential and mixed use development. The Guiding Principles developed for the New General Plan are compatible with the GBI Principles. City staff members working on the New General Plan are aware of the GBI and will ensure that the New General Plan acknowledges the GBI and its associated policies. The recently adopted Downtown Precise Plan is also supportiV, of the Grand Boulevard Initiative Principles and several of. the Downtown Preci~ Rlan Goals are briefly highlighted below: .