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Chapter I-Background,Issucs,and Gaals The Preczse Plan focuses on the issues listed below. These issues and related I'recise Plan gaaLs are discussed in more detail later in this chapter. 1. Location-Appropriate Development 2. Nice Places,Building Orientation,and Pedestri.an Circnlation 3. Waierfron#Access and Open Space 4. Transportation and Ci3c�culation 5. Waterfront Commercial Niche 6. Quantity and Qualify of Afforciable Housing 7. Axchitectrtxral Character and Image The Peninsuia Pbrk Precise Plan has been prepared in conjunciion with a specific development proposal. S�ubstantive progress toward de- velopment consistent with the Precise Plan shall include goad faith applications to State and Federal agencies to obtain required ap- provals assaciated with proposed developinent within three years o# the Precise Plan s adoption. If subsfaxiiive progress toward de- velopment is not made,the Planning Comnussion shall initiate con- sideration of a rezoning consistent with communify objectives for the Precise Pian Area ai that time. The Precise Plan Area The Pre�ise Plan Area lies to the east of Bair Island Road.It is ap- proximately 33.2 acres in size and contains a former mazina and ad- jacent of£ice buildings.Docks,slips and pilings have been removed, ieavi.ng 14.1 acres af open water,riprap/vegetated banks,an aban- doned perimeter road,and a 75Q-spa�e parking area.The central por- tion of the property is elevated on fill appro�nately 8#eet above Drah-October?A.07 - 2 - adjacent Bair Island Road. One 2-story and four 3-story office build- ings overlook the watez:The buildings have a nautical,Cape Cod- like characte�and aze bordered on the south and east by khe parking lot. South of the parking Iot is a vacant land area, distezrbed and overgrown. Tkus area is basically flat,lying at about the same eleva- tion as Bair Island Road and approxirnately 8 feet below the adja- cent elevaied US 101 freeway. AbuEting#he Precise Plan Area on the narth is a strip of land owned by the US Fish and Wildlife Services(USFWS). A PG&E easement. containing 204-foot tall transmission towers crosses the USFWS prop- erry; these transmission towers are the tallest structures in#he ar- eas,however because they are open-frame steel structures they do not block views. A parking lot for the Bair Island Wildlife Refuge occupies the western end of the USFWS land.The eastern end is an undevelaped field. Adjacent to the USFWS parcel is the V'illas at Bair Island,a marina/apartment camplex. The buildings are Medi- terranean in style, 4 stories, with 3 stories of above ground level paxking garages. Ac�ess to the Precise Plan Area is curren�ly possible only from the Whipple Avenue inferchange at U�101,via East Bayshore Road and Saiz Lsland Road.Soth are 3-lane streets with centez left turn lanes. Sidewallcs are narrow or non-existent. Bair Island Road contains bike lanes,East Bayshore Road does not.Neither street has curbside parking.East Bayshore Road abuts the US 101 Freeway and is sepa- rated from khe freeway on the south by a chain link fence-topped concrete barrier.On the north,�ontage properties include indusirial and auto sales businesses and a 12-screen cinema complex. Bair Island Road is the spine of the Precise Plan Area.The westerly frontage con#ains 1-story auto sales and repair and self-storage build- ings,surface pazking lots,and the 4-story Bayport Marina Plaza,a concrete block ofiice bttilding that is the tallest occupied structure in the ixnmediate vicinity.Marina Pointe,a compact deveiopment of 46 2-3 story Mediterranean-style tawnhouses,is located just narth of �0 N (Q (D � CO°37 C�