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Ten community groups presented their core values for the redevelopment of the Pleasant Hills Golf Course site. Common values included preserving open space, controlling traffic, ensuring safety, maintaining quality schools, and providing recreational amenities for youth. Each group also presented initial site design concepts, with most proposing a mix of housing, commercial space, and open areas for parks, sports fields, trails and other public uses.

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PHGCWKSHP Core Values

Ten community groups presented their core values for the redevelopment of the Pleasant Hills Golf Course site. Common values included preserving open space, controlling traffic, ensuring safety, maintaining quality schools, and providing recreational amenities for youth. Each group also presented initial site design concepts, with most proposing a mix of housing, commercial space, and open areas for parks, sports fields, trails and other public uses.

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EVERGREEN  EAST HILLS VISION STRATEGY

Pleasant Hills Golf Course Community Workshop


August Boeger Junior High School
1944 Flint Avenue
San Jose, CA 95148
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
6:30 - 9:00P.M.

SUMMARY of
CORE VALUES & SITE DESIGN REPORT-OUT

GROUP 1
Core Values
• High quality education
• Safety
• Preserving existing wildlife
• Preserving property values in the long-run
• Activities for youth
• Reducing traffic (total and cut-through)

GROUP 2
Core Values
• Preservation of open space (golf course driving range)
• Least possible traffic impact
• Keep same neighborhood character/neighborhood feel
• Plan for future community

GROUP 3
Core Values
• High quality schools
• Safe vehicle/pedestrian circulation
• Open space
• Recreation to serve community
• Affordable housing
• Safe community services (i.e., Fire, Police, etc.)
• Economic diversity of housing
• Neighborhood serving retail
EVERGREEN  EAST HILLS VISION STRATEGY
Pleasant Hills Golf Course Community Workshop 1/17/06
• Neighborhood contiguity
• Community center services for residents of need

GROUP 4
Core Values
• Low density/large lots
• School capacity/overcrowding
• Keep the peace and quiet
• Traffic impacts
o Create interior loop road
o Keep cars off Flint
o Wide streets with speed bumps
o More entrances on White and Tully
o Add street connections to north
• Daycare
• Infrastructure
o Sewers
o Drainage/flooding
• Buffer area – preserve trees
• Park near school

GROUP 5
Core Values
• 40% Open space, 60% development
• Lot size – compatible with existing or larger
• Maintain quality education – not reduce existing
• Active open space – recreation
• Teen center – after school
• Traffic quality – parking – avoid neighborhood cut through
• Maximize sense of community
• Youth sports complex with multi-purpose

Site Design Report-out


• Started with 60% houses/40% open space, ended-up with 70% houses/30% open space
• Want linear park, sports (baseball/soccer), tot-lot, water features
EVERGREEN  EAST HILLS VISION STRATEGY
Pleasant Hills Golf Course Community Workshop 1/17/06
• Townhomes, mixed-use with retail/office
• Houses should match and look similar to existing homes

GROUP 6
Core Values
• Safe neighborhoods
• Prevent overcrowding of: schools, streets, facilities
• Rural/country feel (low noise/privacy)
• School (quality/safety)
• Transportation, being able to get in and out of the area
• Green space, open space, trees
• Athletic facilities (ball fields)
• Community center (other than sports oriented)
• Street improvements
• Address flooding
• Walking (good sidewalks, street trees)
• Compatibility (architecture, density, height, etc.)
• Senior housing

Site Design Report-out


• No commercial

• 46 acres of open space is a good idea

• Focus open space near Lake Cunningham with sports facilities and community center,
balanced along the edges

• School site should be 10 acres of whatever is needed

• Housing should be 8 dwelling units per acre to match existing

• Senior housing near a community center

• Safe neighborhoods with a rural feel

• Transportation is important

• Existing flooding conditions need to be addressed

• Development should have compatible architecture

GROUP 7
EVERGREEN  EAST HILLS VISION STRATEGY
Pleasant Hills Golf Course Community Workshop 1/17/06
Core Values
• Provide recreational uses
o Active uses (soccer field, baseball, swimming pool, community center)
o Part of City park system
o Close to community
• Preserve open space
o Provide connections to other parks, trails, etc.
o Use native plants, lots of trees
• Protect schools, subsidized housing for teachers
• Protect against cut-through traffic
• Provide commercial on South White
• Safety – traffic concerns
Site Design Report-out
•

GROUP 8
Core Values
• Don’t increase traffic on neighborhood and major arterials
• More open space
• Greenbelt buffer at existing neighborhood
• Neighborhood safety
• Blend new development with existing
• More accessible recreational opportunities
• Commercial services (split vote)
• Protect school population levels
• Avoid increased parking in neighborhoods
• Protect neighborhood quietness
• Avoid neighborhood overcrowding

GROUP 9
Core Values
• Safety – pedestrian and neighborhood
• Minimize traffic
• Safe park-strip walkways joining to Lake Cunningham
• Ensure adequate schools (all levels) and community services and senior center
EVERGREEN  EAST HILLS VISION STRATEGY
Pleasant Hills Golf Course Community Workshop 1/17/06
• Well designed local streets
• Maximize open space/youth center and recreation areas
• Provide affordable housing and minimize high density
• Save trees and existing environment to maximum extent possible

GROUP 10
Core Values
• Traffic control
• Green space conservation
• Decrease crime
• Maintaining trees
• Air quality
• Maintain a 9-hole golf course
• Parks
• Safety for pedestrians
• Maintain quality of life
• Activities for kids
• Adequate parking
• Connection to Lake Cunningham
• Dog park
• Par course/trails
• Affordable housing
• Build or enlarge schools
• Increase Fire Department
• Control the density of housing

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