 So, I want to start off by thanking everybody for attending tonight. I know it's important that everybody is involved with their community and we want to thank you for participating in this process. My name is Adrian Engel. I'm a project manager with AIM Consulting, a public outreach firm contracted by the city to start facilitating a discussion about this Dineshi Gateway plan area. And so, we have a couple things to do tonight. First, we'll have a few presentations given by city staff, some representatives from UC Davis, and then some staff working with the developer. And then we have some board sensations in the back that we're going to ask for some comments on. And so, tonight we're focusing on a couple different things. But to get started with some housekeeping, the restrooms, if anybody doesn't know are outside the door to the left. And so, the outreach process is being divided into two nights. Tonight, tomorrow night, tonight's focus is going to be an overview of the project and then we're going to focus on issues of community space and mobility. And tomorrow night, we'll be looking more towards information about economic development and housing. If you can't make the presentation tomorrow night and have some comments to give about economic development, housing, we're more than happy to take that information as well. I also want to stress that everything that you're going to see here tonight is at the super preliminary stages. And we're just starting to solicit ideas at this point to move this process forward and really start talking about the plan that's in this area. So at this point, I want to introduce the teammates who are around the room. First, Mike Webb here up front is the City's Community Development Director. Katherine Hess in the back, the City's Project Manager. Tim Ruff is here. He's the property owner for the Nishia Property. Bob Seager is also here on the right from UC Davis. Dan Parrow in the back, the deputy to Supervisor Saylor. And then Prakash Pinto is here in the front. He works with Pinto and partners as part of the consultant team. So with that, I want to make sure everybody's aware there's comment cards. We'd really like to get as many comments and writing as we can. We're going to be working on responding all those and putting them on the website. In a couple of weeks, we're also going to be putting an online survey up as well to be able to solicit information that way. On that comment card is also the website, which is www.nishigateway.org. So check back there for more information as well. So with that, I'd like to introduce Mike Webb to talk a little bit about the project. Thanks, Adrian. This one here. All right. And you won't hear my voice amplified because this is just for the video recording purposes. So if you're wondering, why is this guy holding a microphone? But thank you very much, Adrian. Really again, appreciate everyone taking some time out of your valuable evenings and family time to come here and join with us tonight. Hopefully we'll see some of you tomorrow evening as well. One of the things that I'll add to Adrian's comments is that, again, reiterating that this is kind of the very first, you know, one of the very first opportunities for us to get out, start engaging with the community on this effort, and it won't be the last opportunity by any stretch. There will be multiple places along the way where we will be seeking to engage with the community on the effort, including the website development that Adrian mentioned, which will ultimately have some tools that will allow folks to engage and provide input from the comfort of their homes or place of work on break, of course. And so thank you again for coming out. So the properties that we're talking about tonight is, in particular, really contains both city land that is within the unincorporated area of Yolo County, and that's referred to here in blue as the Nishi site. That's about approximately 44 acres. Again, immediately adjacent to the city, adjacent to the downtown, and the UC Davis campus. Any development on this property, as many may already know, would require a Measure J, now called Measure R, citizens vote, because it would be a conversion of what is currently designated a land that's not, doesn't have an urban designation in the general plan to an urban designation. So that requires or triggers a voter approval process. A little bit of the history of some of the evaluations and looks at this property in the past. In 2008, the city of Davis convened a, what we refer to as a housing element steering committee. And that was 2008 effort to evaluate a number of different properties and sites for potential housing opportunities throughout the city. This site, the Nishi property in particular, was looked at as one of those opportunity sites. And the steering committee had a recommended range of housing going anywhere from 460 on up to 1,000 units. Evaluated as part of that process, at potential access points, to campus from all of Drive. And ultimately came to a recommendation to suggest working cooperatively with the campus to develop potential concepts for the property. Another effort that was underway so that the 2008 steering committee was focused primarily on housing. In just a little bit of time after that in 2010, the city convened what we refer to as the business park. The business park land strategy effort, and that was what we called the Innovation Park Task Force. Which was convened at the time to look at opportunities for economic development, job growth, business growth opportunities. Places where local companies and spin-offs from the university could house their businesses over time. In particular, they were looking at both peripheral sites, sites that would currently be outside the city limits and more on the edges. And then also at the same time, looking at opportunity sites closer into the city. Including the Nishi property and the downtown in general. As opportunity sites for that non-residential growth. So one of the keys to that effort is that the recommendations coming out of this business park land strategy, recommendations coming to the city council and adopted by the city council, is that any economic development efforts that the city makes moving forward really need to be multifaceted. No one solution is going to meet all the needs for economic development. And so looking at multiple opportunities simultaneously. One of the key elements of that effort also was the recommendation to pursue the downtown and the Nishi Gateway District in particular as a dynamic mixed-use innovation district. And with a mixture of both economic development, job growth, and housing. And again, collaboration with UC Davis is seen as a real opportunity to some of the solutions and challenges that a site like this presents. And then lastly, to look at the Richards Olive Drive area, which I'm sure everyone knows quite well, as a really kind of revisioning that as an entry key entry into the community. And certainly as one of the opportunity points for transportation and mobility. So again, moving forward with some of the past efforts of the city, particularly to this site. In 2012, the city council adopted goals as part of their kind of every two year goal setting process. A couple of those that pertain to this effort were to actively partner with UC Davis, our partners, the Yellow County as well, on land use planning and economic development efforts. And to more specifically seek to entitle the Downtown University mixed-use innovation district, which is the site and area that we're talking about tonight. So the efforts that have been underway the last several months to kind of bring us current and where we are today. The city, Davis, the property owner of the Nishi property, Yolo County, UC Davis, and even Lafko, which is our local agency and formation commission, have all been partnering and working collaboratively to develop frameworks and concepts for potential development on this site. The goals of that collaborative effort and of that collective group really refer to key issues I think that we can all pretty readily relate to around sustainability, walkability, really looking at the site as an opportunity with its close proximity, immediate proximity to the university, the Downtown, to transit networks, to Amtrak, supporting campus initiatives and efforts that the campus has underway. But moreover, creating a place for living and innovation to occur in the same environment. Community engagement, certainly reaching out to the community, having it be a collaborative planning process. And then lastly, but not least, addressing traffic. And again, as I said, some of the key opportunity areas that the site presents. So those are the goals of the broader collective group. Some more specific city council goals that were established by the council for this site are jobs, job creation for the community, high density urban housing, improving that front door, that entry to the community, supporting Downtown Davis. How can additional jobs, housing actually help facilitate and promote the livelihood, the vibrancy of our existing Downtown and support those businesses that we have today. And then revenue generation. So tonight, some of the issues, key issues that we really want to engage with all of you on. And in an interactive way, once we get through this initial presentation, are questions like, what aspects of these frameworks, which we'll introduce in a moment, are consistent with the city's goals for the district that we've just described? How can they be improved? And then how can the project on this property be one that would receive Measure R approval? Knowing that that's a pretty good size hurdle to overcome and to work through with the community, it really is a collaborative effort, we think, to engage with the community in a way that results in a plan and a framework that ultimately would be, hopefully not only accepted by the voters, but embraced by the voters. So feasibility studies, there's a number of analyses and evaluations that we have that need to be done and need to be undertaken with this site. Water wastewater plans, transportation, vehicle reduction plans and efforts, economic analysis, and economic analysis not only in the sense of the micro-economics of this particular property, but what are the economic impacts, potential economic benefits to the community at large of a project like this? For those efforts, the city and with our partners, UC Davis, the county property owner have submitted for a couple of different grant applications and it's looking very good in terms of one of the grant applications that we've applied for that would help to significantly help to fund a lot of these analyses that we would need moving forward. So next steps, timeline. So in the fall of this year, we would anticipate undertaking those environmental and feasibility analyses, then going back before the city council to select what we call a preferred project and one of the different frameworks and different possibilities, kind of narrowing the focus down to one preferred framework. And with that, initiating with that direction from city council, then initiating environmental review in the form of CEQA, which is California Environmental Quality Act that many of you are familiar with, would necessitate preparation of what we call an EIR, Environmental Impact Report. As I mentioned, those economic and environmental analyses being completed in 2015 and then measure our vote looking at November 2015 for that. So that's the end of my introductory comments from here. I'd like to introduce Bob Sieger, who's the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Campus Planning, and he'll. Thanks, Mike. It is weird to have this not be amplified, but I'll keep it up here. So just wanted to give a few comments from the campus perspective about this whole collaborative planning effort. And I'll say a little bit about the growth that's pending at the campus too that's driving some of our interest and participation in this whole thing. So as you may have heard, I think it's my next slide. The campus is projecting some pretty significant enrollment growth in the coming years. We haven't really started on that trajectory yet, but it's coming. And these are the round numbers. These don't quote me on these, but these are the round numbers that are getting talked about as a strategy to grow the campus, internationalize the campus, and as a way to try to preserve access for California students to grow by that kind of number and then add the associated faculty and staff growth that comes with that. So participating in this planning study for this part of campus with the city and the landowner in the county is a planning study that will help inform our own long range development plan. So long range development plans are the closest things that campuses have, you see campuses to a city general plan, they're sort of our equivalent. So we'll look out, 10, 15, 20 years, do a big comprehensive long range development plan like a general plan. Look at all the population growth, all the land use and facilities growth that it might take to grow the campus and then do a big environmental, programmatic environmental impact report on that. So we'll be starting that in the coming months and this study for this part of campus collaboratively with the city will help inform that, and we talked about that one. So when the campus grows, there are these kinds of activities that we need to plan for. So this is kind of our vocabulary here. So clearly, there's the whole academic enterprise. That's why people come, right? So that means we'll be looking at new classrooms, new labs and office buildings for faculty and for staff to supply that education to that expanded number of students. But as you know, it's not just labs and offices and classrooms. It's a full-fledged community in its own right. So we have student housing, we have athletics and recreation programs, all kinds of student services programs. When the campus grows in numbers and students, those things grow too. So we'll be planning for expansion and all those. And then of course, all the sustainability strategies for both involving people and making the place, talking about that balance between housing and transportation. If we grow and we provide significant amount of housing that cuts down on the in commute, but it has other potential impacts and implications close in. And then the systems of energy, water that we work so hard on to try to really create a sustainable future for the campus. So we're gonna be looking at all of those needs as we look at growth. This is the existing campus long range development plan. So to get you oriented, there's downtown. There's the quad, it's kind of an ugly green, but in this map that's right there. Russell Boulevard up at the top, and there's the Nishi property right there. So in our vocabulary, that's the academic core of campus. That's what you around the quad. And that's where most of the classrooms and offices and labs are. The campus is 3,700 acres on this drawing inside the freeways. Interstate 80 and 113 is about 900 acres. And as most of you know, it's by far the largest of the UC campuses. That's housing, so you can kind of see, I mean in a way that's our downtown, right next to downtown Davis. And I mean, campus planning 101, everything else wants to get as close as possible. So that's our housing. The green is athletics and recreation. The brown are some of the facilities and operations that it takes to run the place. So really fueling that academic core with people and activity and systems. And that's the existing Solano Park housing in this corner of campus that we're talking about close to downtown and the Nishi property. So you'll see this slide a couple of times, but we were calling it East Village just for fun. But this is the campus part that's in the planning study. And as you know, one of the big issues on this property the whole time has been access, not overburdening the Richard's Boulevard access to this part of Davis by, and you'll see in these studies what we're looking at is vehicle access to the campus. So we're looking at bike and pedestrian access. We're looking at vehicle access. We're looking at open space connections. That's a lot of what you'll hear Prakash talk about as we put these different scenarios forward. And when we talk about a framework, you'll see drawings that look like it's all done and figured out because it shows buildings. They're really there to spark conversation and to talk about, well, how if we're to really try to do coordinated planning, how should we connect across the boundaries that separate the campus and this other property? So just a little, this is a campus person's view of the world, so forgive me. Interstate 80, going by, there's the tracks. I'll just take you a walk through some of the projects that have really, most of what you see on this drawing has been done in the last 10 years. There's the arboretum that, so here's the track. So there's the east end where that new garden. I see Emily's here. The new garden that just opened down by Davis Commons with the shovel sculptures right down here. The arboretum snakes all the way to the west end of campus like that. Right off the map on the left off the drawing is School of Education and the Fine Arts Complex. So that's where the music department, theater and dance department, studio art, the main theater that seats 500 people. And we're building a new recital hall for the music department that is going to seat almost 400 people. So part of what you'll see me building up here is that this planning area that's campus right here and the Davis Nishi Gateway right here is unique in our community for how close and walkable it is. You'll hear the city folks talk about how close and walkable it is to feeding downtown. But it's also close and walkable to the core campus up here and to this whole new visitor and cultural district that the campus has built down here, so it's really uniquely positioned in that regard. That's Solano Park Student Housing, I'm gonna say more about that. The Mundavi Center for Performing Arts is there. Graduate School of Management is right there. The Conference Center, Hotel and Welcome Center for UC Davis is all in that area. That's the site for the new museum of art that's gonna break ground this summer. And that's the Mundavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, which keeps expanding with new programs and the vineyard at the entry to campus. So for us, all these investments and new programs that have been built are about bringing the campus out front, making it visible, inviting people in to have a great experience at UC Davis and learning more about the place. But also then great new facilities for these campus activities. And that's the planning area on the campus side. That encompasses Solano Park, that encompasses existing environmental horticulture department, encompasses some open land and some recreation land, some parking areas. So a lot of it's developed and would be redevelopment over the long haul. And some of it is undeveloped at this time. So again, what we're working on is this framework for connections, the rate at which some of these uses might change or develop is really not something that we can even predict right now. We're just trying to get this framework that would help us plan collaboratively. So a little bit about forecasting what you're gonna see from precaution in terms of the circulation. I mentioned access. So this is the existing route of Old Davis Road now. Used to be, for those of you who remember, it used to go all the way up here along the edge of the arboretum. And little by little, in fact, it used to come in just like this. And it went right here, there was an intersection cut up like that. And it went, I'll show you how long I've been here. It went up like that, over to A Street and up. Well, we just built this roundabout. And when we built the Mondavi Center, we extended it this far. When we built the hotel, we extended it that far. And we just extended it the rest of the way. And if you've been over there, you see what it does is it takes Old Davis Road, Old Old Davis Road, and turns it into a bike path along the top of the arboretum. And the long term plan for the arboretum is that we wanna get a bike way up in the top of the bank and have the paths that are down below be just for pedestrians. So that's the roadway extension as it exists. And what you're gonna see from Prakash is he's gonna describe these comprehensive kind of what if scenarios that describe what could happen on the campus side, what could happen on the Davis-Nishi gateway side, and what might connections look like. So a couple of his alternatives that you'll see, alternatives one and two, would have that kind of connection. And that would mean redeveloping at least a chunk of Solano Park. And I'm gonna say, again, that's what we worked on together. Another one of his alternatives three would be a different way of connecting. I'm just showing roadway connections, but he'll show you both roadway and bike path and pedestrian and open space connections across one side to the other. So his alternative three looks like that from a campus perspective. And then we're in conversations with our student family community and our graduate student housing community. And that's a concurrent planning process with this. So we wanna make sure we look at some alternatives that keep the current configuration of Solano Park as is. So it's not reflected in Prakash's diagrams yet, but we'll be looking at additional connections as well that would allow that to happen. And that's kind of the way we've described the process. We put forward these framework connections. We kind of go back to our own environments, look at the possibilities and come back together and turn the crank and try it again. So we'll talk, this is more like the drawings that Prakash will show. But what they're really about at this point, the potential for road and path and pedestrian connections, the potential for open space connections. And then what might we each look at in terms of future long term development on both sides. So from a campus perspective, it's really exciting to be a part of this collaboration, this kind of newly invigorated and shared interest in economic development. From the campus side and from the city side, sharing that interest in sustainable transportation. Looking at development strategies that would benefit both downtown and the university, something that will be coordinated with our long range development plan and that we can coordinate with the future vision for Solano Park and Orchard Park on the other side of campus. So what happens next, this process that we're in right now, which the city is running in terms of a public outreach. The shared analysis that Mike mentioned of traffic and other implications of potential scenarios will go back and do programming for our long range development plan with these different frameworks in mind. What might we do on the campus that could coordinate with these patterns? And then just keep taking it a step at a time. At this point, the collaboration really is the most exciting thing, that we're talking about it together. We're looking at scenarios together. We're each kind of respecting what each party needs to go back and make it work for themselves and then coming back together again. And seeking a long term vision where each move can support a bigger idea. So that's all I brought, and I want to hand it over to Prakash, who guided us through a planning process really to get to this point where we could pose scenarios for conversation. Okay, thank you Bob, and thank you for being here. My name is Prakash Pinta, I was a principal in charge at Perkins and Will. I'm now a partner with Pinto and Partners based in Berkeley where I teach. And I do have a affinity for Davis. I just want to just briefly tell you my involvement started with my niece, who actually was a student here. She's graduated, she's already graduated, but she said, you do all these great planning projects for these big universities. Why can't you come to Davis and do something for us as students? Because we want to stay in town, we want to work in this wonderful city. And I know this city quite well, and it's wonderful. It's got a world-class university, and so that was my involvement. And so I want to show you some of the planning that we've all done together to hopefully bring forward a vision that really fulfills this really wonderful potential that exists in this city. With that, I want to talk about some precedents to help put this in some context. My office, my former office, and we worked on Mission Bay with UCSF in San Francisco. And this has been 18 years of work, but it's actually evolving now. And it's getting built, it's about 75% built. And this is a true innovation center. It's got the university hospital. It's got really wonderful companies. It's got incubator spaces. It's got living spaces. It's got great open spaces, and it's a new neighborhood in the city. And I think that's what we're really talking about here in terms of innovation districts, that these are not just employment centers. These are not just housing centers. These are real neighborhoods and districts within cities. And you can see the master plan. It's really a wonderful kind of very walkable. It's got retail. It's got great open spaces, access to the waterfront. Families live here. Students live here. Faculty live here. Young professionals. And it's truly become a very desirable place in the city to live now. Another project that is still ongoing, it's with Johns Hopkins. And they're looking at this part of Baltimore that really needs revitalization. But they have a great need for research and incubation spaces. And so they asked us to come in and look at a kind of mixed-use neighborhood. And we came in with an idea about open spaces and new kinds of office spaces, new kinds of living spaces. And you can see it's built now. It's got a real vibrant. It's got daycare. It's got preschools. It really is a community. And I think that's really the difference between what we're talking about innovation district that's really truly a neighborhood versus just a business park, which is not what we're talking about here. And currently, informally, I was working in Fremont with a city start to look at this. This is adjacent to the Tesla plant and looking at how spin-off technologies can actually be housed. And because it's equidistant between Stanford and Berkeley, it's actually a very strategic location for researchers. And it's actually Livermore. Labs are also kind of, it's right at the juncture of these three fantastic institutions. And so it's true an innovation center for great minds to come to work and to live and to be a real place and destination. These are just some of the renderings. It's still undergoing an EIR process. But you can see they're not places that close down at 5 p.m. So what are the qualities? It's a high degree of collaboration between university and city. There's density, housing density and choices, accessibility to various modes of transportation. There's employment and housing adjacencies. So jobs, housing are balanced in a very close proximity. There's mix of uses, real focus on local retail and amenities, because they are bought in the neighborhoods, creating diversity of open spaces. And one thing I really want to emphasize is that none of those projects could be done without strong public input and process. The communities that these projects in are very vocal communities, very passionate about where they live. And Davis is no different than that. And I think this process is very similar to that, to solicit your input to how to make this project really wonderful. Just contact inside and out. Bob showed you the site. I just want to make sure. So you can see it's at a very important juncture. Here's the university. Here's downtown. And it's really at the front door of Davis. A closer view for you. And one thing that's truly also wonderful is the arboretum here, as Bob was mentioning, as a way to integrate. And you'll see this in the planning options that we are showing. This slide already, the UC side and the Nishi property side. And then all of drive, which is currently mixed use here. There are many opportunities. It's a strategic site adjacent to UC in downtown. It's intended to be a mixed use district that services both, but also utilizes both. It's a very desirable location for employment. And we really want to take advantage of the existing amenities, not only those of the downtown, but also the ones Bob mentioned in his presentation. There's the Mondavi Center, the Shrem Art Center coming in. Really fantastic amenities are in that location. And really take advantage of Davis as a knowledge center in the entire Central Valley. This is where you're bringing really wonderful, talented people are gravitating here. And so how do you capture them? How do you actually allow them to do the kind of work that they want to do? There are issues, though. There's a railroad that runs through the site and how we cross it is important, how we create that connection. We need to emphasize transit and bike peds versus automobile and parking. And that will be a theme tonight. We want to solicit input as well from you. Easements and setbacks from the highway and from the railroad. So the site utilization also is an issue. And then how we phase infrastructure. It's going to be expensive to build these crossings. And that's something we're looking for in the planning. I want to talk about just collaboration and how we got to these three because there's a lot of work. And I have to say this group was probably the most collaborative group I've ever worked with from the university to the city to the county to the landowners, very collaborative. We actually had 10 concepts at one point where we were looking at them. We've narrowed them down to three for you to comment on. But it was really a wonderful effort. And I think some fantastic ideas came forward. So getting to the alternatives. There are many common goals to strengthen campus connections and community connections, create a new gateway to Davis. I'm going to try to be brief because I think my time is limited here. We want to achieve synergy with all the existing and recreational assets that are in the area already and achieve a synergy with downtown Davis. Really utilize that wonderful walkable downtown that we have here. And take advantage of the location to create a pedestrian oriented community. And also create a new mixed use district that's really truly viable that meets the growing needs as Bob mentioned of a growing university that's growing leaps and bounds. And also to understand how we bring employment into the city as well. Design themes, I won't go through every one but they're really about using accessibility and open space, connectivity, reduce automobile dependency, creating walkable streets. These are things that as a community you already know all these things about. I see it in the way the streets are designed, the way you have bike paths everywhere, the way you really focus on the pedestrian. You understand sustainability as a community. These are all things we want to leverage and build into this project. And these are just more bringing really more compact development, a diversity of housing types, high performance, sustainable net zero buildings if possible, how we look at stormwater and solar gardens and roofs really truly integrate a kind of sustainable program into this community. These are the three alternatives. We just loosely called them to help us identify courtyards, green fingers and green loops. And really what we're looking at is the program in all of these are essentially the same. But what we've done is we've organized them slightly differently based on how we've organized open space, where we've put some housing locations. And I just want to mention, we show things on the UC side, but as Bob mentioned, this is very preliminary in its planning and we allow this as a framework. We're really focusing more on connections, how we actually integrate these two sides of the tracks in a more holistic manner. And knowing that the university is moving forward on their planning effort as they start to look at their own LRDP and their growth. But looking at the whole site as one integrated site, at least for the sake of planning purposes is very helpful. This is the total program and there's charts, so don't worry if you can't read it here. But we're looking at about 1,600 to 1,700 jobs potentially in this area with about 1,200 housing units roughly. I mean, these are numbers that we're still looking at and still testing. And if you have comments about that, that's really important. But we really would like to see a significant amount of housing and jobs balanced in this area. I don't want to forget open space. There's a significant amount of open space and arts and culture that we want to build on what the campus is doing but also provide that on these sites. So the first alternative really looks at creating a series of different open spaces. This is the railroad tracks and this is 80 here. And more clearly is the land use and the blue is more office R and D and the yellow is more housing. And this really looks at putting more housing closer to the downtown and along the arboretum and more of the office R and D and incubator spaces away from that. Looking at how we can use those kinds of buildings as buffers to the highway so that we're protecting more of the residential. And this is a way we could lay out one option is just looking at different kinds of open spaces that would actually house a variety of different activities. We want to have some access parking but that would be treated like a solar farm and understand that we would really want to understand how housing could actually be more organized and made more accessible to the downtown. This is just highlights the different types of open spaces and these are on the boards. And one of the questions we have for you is the idea about the diversity of these open spaces what kind of programs and different concepts for them. These are the, this is the major street network as Bob was talking about, how we could organize the site and this is the one connection separated crossing under the tracks that we would be looking at in this option. A very highly robust bike and pedestrian network to really link this part and the site with this part and actually really look at connections to south of Davis so that we're really filling in this gap. Second alternative what we're called green fingers is just a different orientation, a more idea of open space in commons and linking it with the existing arboretum which is really a wonderful place that already exists as an amenity, organizing buildings along it and creating smaller semi-public courtyards for the housing. And this is how it generally looks. You can see we're looking at more housing that's really closer to the downtown and would be more accessible. A lot of the incubator R and D space, office space away from that. And arts looking at, the campus has sort of moved towards putting more of their arts and culture in this area and we're really looking to emphasize that in some ways. This is just a 3D view. Again, you can see the major open spaces. The grade separation is right here connected. Again, this area, depending on how the university decides to move forward, could be adjusted and modified. We could certainly adjust that and modify that to fit the planning needs of the university. This is the open space. So this is the arboretum and we're really looking at how we could connect that. And the street network as seen and the orange I meant to say in the previous slides would be a secondary road network. So you'd have really what these blocks are designed to be very walkable, not long expanses but really more like the downtown there's a nice scale to the downtown and to your neighborhoods here, keep that pattern of development. Again, a very robust bike and ped network with lots of connections out to the surrounding. The third alternative and Bob showed this earlier would be what we're calling a green loop and we're actually looking at open space that could really tie everything together as a kind of loop with the existing arboretum. Same kind of program. We're talking about the exact same amount of program, same kind of planning strategy but this is very interesting and that takes advantage of a kind of grid that the university established in the city in this direction and follows through with it and just slightly turns it for the connection here and so you can see how the loop came through with this. Again, I just wanted to point out the railroad track if it's not clear to people where that is and this would be crossing between the two sites and the open space network. So again that loop as I was mentioning earlier and the road network. We're trying to be judicious with roads. We really want to focus on pedestrians and their movement. This is the bike and ped. And so these are the three different options. You can see there's some similarities but some differences we'd like you to comment on. And this is just a rendering in terms of some of the potential layouts of open spaces mixed with higher density housing and ground floor retail and activity. Really kind of DNA of a character of this place. Now I just want to just take a few minutes I'm just for the questions and I want to just talk about the qualities of good urban info because we're going to ask you some questions about this about what it entails about diversity of housing choices and density creating a diversity of open spaces both active and passive. Mobility options and choices. Employment and housing adjacencies and mix of uses in local retail. These are things that really are not only what make a good innovation district but also are good urban info but there's a lot of questions within these as we're moving forward on the planning that we need your input. Like what's the character? What's the level of scale? What's the density? And these are things that are very valuable that you can provide to us to help us focus and we have examples on the boards. So for example, mobility and walkability there are many benefits to focusing on walkability and alternative modes of transportation. It creates more activity on sidewalks it gives people more option rather than traveling by cars reduces greenhouse gases and the need to not have to create parking lots and parking structures is really important and I think you're all aware of that. So some questions for instance are are there other traffic management strategies we haven't thought of? We're looking at how to use smart technology and all of those things but I think you're a very smart community you probably have some different ideas about how to actually move forward on that. We wanna talk about also tonight open space and community character and these are kinds of ideas that look towards what's good about open spaces and having a diversity accommodating a range of users creating an urban situation but also that people have access to open spaces is very important. So there's a good balance between the two and how green infrastructure can manage precious resources. I mean manage stormwater actually not use irrigation actually be drought tolerant. There's many ways that can sustain life and the idea of open spaces. So one question for us is how do we apply Davis's community values in this context? What does that mean? I'd be really curious for your answers. Tomorrow we're talking about housing but I just wanted, because I know some of you can't be here tomorrow but having higher density housing increases site utilization and reduces footprints actually. Creates more activity on the streets. It allows people to live closer to employment centers and closer to work and helps support the retail. Also you have more people living in a location. That's really important. So what types of housing should be included in this site? These are examples of current housing in Davis that are higher density housing. You have a precedent for it. And then finally just both Mike mentioned this and Bob in some ways but Davis does have a job deficit and the council has reported on this. How do we leverage UC Davis and the Innovation Center for New Job Growth? That's the question really. And then how do we provide well-paying jobs in Davis for Davis residents? So that people like my niece don't graduate with this fantastic degree and then move to Sacramento. How do you get her back? I think that's the big question. What type of employers and what type of businesses do you think? These are good questions and we'd really like to get some input from you. I think that's it. So I'll turn it over. Thank you very much. So we hope the presentation sparked many questions and ideas and as Prakash has gone through sort of the framework for tonight there's three stations around the room. There's one that talks about the individual frameworks here. The far left corner talks more about the open space and community character. And then on the right side in the back there talks more about mobility and some of the traffic management potential ideas for there. So what we'd really like to get everybody involved with the room, staff will be around to answer questions and be able to use the comment cards to get all your questions and writing. We'll be posting answers back for everybody to see on the website that I mentioned that's on the comment card, the nichegateway.org and also have the public participation survey coming up in the next couple of weeks as well. Do we have a little question and answer session or comments so that we can share ideas with everybody else in the room? We'd really like to get them in writing so we can respond back to them that way instead of creating a dialogue. I don't like this typical format where the consultants come in and then break everyone up so nobody can say anything. The least bit controversial, you know? That's, I know the game, let's not play it. Okay, so, Katherine do you wanna take a limited number? Our part of what we wanna ensure is that everybody has a chance to make comments with comments to get you out at eight, but 15 or 20 minutes of Q&A. Sure, if you've got questions. One request that I do have is, last time I was at a public meeting, the introduction was please know Davis style questions. That's one that starts with, given that, it goes for five minutes and then might have a question at the end of it. I think you all have seen those, some of you have asked them, some of you listened to them and so, real questions with lots of questions. Yeah, I started in the room with pictures and made comments as well, because we wanted to share our observations with the other students. Ah, okay, another one. Yeah, there's a few that are here. So yeah, I mean, I think, I mean, we really do wanna make sure that we give people an opportunity because there's additional information and details and kind of probing questions, if you will, along the exhibits in the back of the room, but why don't we take, if Adrian can perhaps facilitate, let's say 15 minutes of Q and A, and then we can then give the opportunity for people to break out into those, into the stations around the room. If you're not able to stay for the whole time, do feel free to get up and start looking at those exhibits in the back, if you're not able to stay the whole time. So let's go from there. Oh, okay, yeah. I'm just going to make two comments to my staff and my fellow citizens. One observation, two observations. One is my concern that for the circulation, it's critical, of course, to have two complete means of egress, because anyone who's on this site is going to be trapped between a railroad with fracking, trains filled with fracking oil, and a big fence, and the freeway. So it's like a death trap. Now my concern is that before we waste a lot of money on consultant things and stuff, get the circulation, and it seems to me that the way you have it set up right now is that the egress is too close to the middle and it should be more towards the end. I think you need a complete means of egress at either end. You don't want people even caught in the parking lot at that end without having a means of egress that doesn't say if there's an accident between the middle of the Nishi or towards the Mandabi Center. It seems to me that for safety's sake you should move that access further towards the Mandabi Center. One observation. A second observation is I don't think it's a good idea to put retail on this site because we care. You mentioned the character of Davis and the things that are uniquely Davis, and what's uniquely Davis is that we have not spun out the way Berkeley has with a ton of different retail centers and had our downtown suffer. And this is close enough to walk downtown. So I think that it's better not to have retail on this site, maybe one coffee shop. I mean, but everybody can walk downtown or bike downtown from that site. It's only a couple of minutes. So maybe it's better to avoid the retail. I've seen that not work in many places but those to Maryland split up retail. Berkeley split up retail. Let me just respond to that. I think that's a very good comment. And I didn't, it wasn't clear in the presentation, but we're actually proposing very little retail. It's really just a cafe, maybe a dry cleaner, really small because we really want people to go to the downtown. It's really about accessibility. And as to your first comment, we're still looking at all the circulation. This is very early on in the planning and your concern is noted, definitely. So just one, I mean, as we move forward, I mean, time is valuable here. In terms of comments, we've certainly liked to get comments and feedback and suggestions. I'd really like to focus right now on some key questions. We've got about 10, 12 minutes left to focus on questions. So why don't we do that and then break out and give the opportunity for more comments and suggestions and such as we move on. Okay, we'll start here and then go there. Okay, I'll put my comment in the form of a question. A temperate move, right? Yeah. I think it's really important to, anything like this when we're this early, we're really not going to focus on the community character, what jobs we're gonna have there, how it fits in with the green community and using all these keywords. The key thing here is infrastructure. What is the basic layout gonna look like? That's what's important right now. My question is, along with my suggestion, is why do you have the roads laid out the way you do? And the reason I'm asking that is because my understanding is that we are gonna have the ability to come to Richards and Olive and instead of everybody going through downtown, they can now turn and go to the campus by going up Richards through the Nishi property into campus, which will greatly improve circulation in downtown. But the way this is laid out, there's a right hand turn and then you go way to the far side and back. So my suggestion is that that be a curve, that that be a parkway. And my other suggestion is that coming from the bike path there, which is the key bike path through, as soon as you get out of the freeway there, you have a turn into the property, but it's a series end of corners. And it needs to be grade separated from the parkway that I just suggested so that you don't have to deal with the parkway. And then instead of coming out there, have a nice bike path that goes into the tunnel that is like the core of the whole thing. And so you have a curb parkway and a nice curb bike path and build everything else off of that because then those are direct paths right through the center of it. I know you have a drawing in your mind of what you're talking about. I'll be glad to draw it, but I just wanted to get it out there to the whole group. Very good, thank you. All right, so you have to come up. Is that as far as I can go? I saw this presentation at the city council meeting some months ago. And at that time, there were two auto roadways under the railroad tracks with undisclosed access to Olive Drive. And I thought, well, that was interesting and maybe there would just be no access automobile-wise to Olive Drive and that would work. The way I see it now, there's conflict between the existing bike path that parallels Olive Drive and automobiles. And also the automobile traffic will further congest the already congested Richard's Boulevard area. And I see that as a huge negative that is not being addressed. I also think, I think generally, the campus has a lot of athletic space, particularly along Russell Drive and elsewhere. On one of the slides, there's a baseball field that's adjacent to the tracks. I would suggest move all those athletic fields into the niche, if you wanna do that, development of the niche and put all the campus and buildings, housing and all that under the core of the campus. Screw this development of the niche project. I still stand with plan F, which is farmland. We're good. Yeah, my concern is, this is being kind of stage as a innovation park idea and all I see is primarily housing. So number one question is, who is the housing for? How many units are we talking about? That ties into all of the circulation issues. There are enormous circulation problems in this area that have been known for decades. I don't see a solution to those being presented, really. So I guess the question is, I know the university seems to be very excited about this. I know the university is trying to bring in 5,000 more students, most of them being at a state, at a country. And the university has always been very resistant to building any housing for students in general, especially for the in-state students. So I mean, is that what's going on here? Is this like supposed to be the housing project for the out-of-state and out-of-country students that pay higher tuition? So then this begs the question, is why is this being presented in the way it is as a pseudo innovation park, which is like an iota of it is innovation park whereas the majority of it is very high-density housing which would demand the most vehicular traffic, which is, this is the worst location in the entire city to handle vehicular traffic. And I'm not hearing the solutions, or who is gonna pay for those solutions? Do you wanna talk a little bit about the numbers again? I know you mentioned in the months. I think we're roughly, we're still studying this, so we haven't figured out an actual number. But we're looking at about 1,200 units. And 1,200 on 40, 90, about 90 acres. I would also, your second question, that was your second question, but your first question was housing. The idea here is not student housing. This is housing for not just students, but graduate students, families, but also a segment of the population that doesn't get housing in Davis, which is those newly graduates who don't wanna live in student housing but can't afford the higher-end housing. And the city has a gap in that kind of housing. And this project, we're looking at ways to provide that kind of housing for them in a way. So my point is, it's a housing project with some a commercial one. I mean, that's how it should be, honestly, portrayed. You didn't want to pull up the slide with the, some of the, I would really, I have to differ with you strongly, actually. I don't know how you're drawing that, but I would suggest that, because other people have, this is only 15 minutes, is that you come to the board, because I'll be there and we can have this discussion. I'm happy to have it with you. And you can see actually how many housing and how much office and incubator space and then we can talk about how that fits in, because I just don't think I can address that right now. And I would be happy to talk to you at the board. And the charts here demonstrate, roughly the proportions of housing to the R&D space, to the open space that they're looking at in the program at this point. Yeah, and these are all the same for all the alternatives right now. That's not to say they might change as we start to understand the market studies and the analysis, but for right now, we're working with this basic program. So the question is, how many housing units? That's your third question though. Do other people have it? Correctly. I think I did, it's right there. So it's a 1200 units on 90 acres, and yet Nishi's not 90 acres. So you're including the slant over. It's included, yes. Okay, so how many units on the Nishi? I think we're still working that out, but maybe you could say there's about half, for the SICU. Okay, so at least 600 on 45, that's a big number. I'll add too that I think one of the important elements here at this stage of where we are in concept development is that we had, excuse me Rodney, I can't, everyone can't hear me when you're speaking. I can't really hear you. Oh, okay, no, yeah, no, I appreciate it. I'll speak up, thank you, Kevin. I think one of the key elements to note at this point in our evaluation of options here is that we have, there's a range of possibilities for housing units, the types of housing units, that's the types of jobs, the number of jobs, that's the kind of input we're wanting to seek from the community, from you. And hence some of these boards tonight and then tomorrow night, more of a focus on the housing and economic development jobs piece of it. But reality is too, that in order to evaluate the possibilities, we have to start somewhere and have some numbers to kind of plug in so that we can start testing things, testing economics, testing traffic, testing other scenarios. But these are all, there's nothing here that's set in stone in any way. So I'll just want to emphasize that. All right, so I think that's been about 15 minutes. I'll spend some time now with the boards. Staff will be here to answer questions. Again, do you want to talk about specific frameworks up here on the front? Open space and public space as well as mobility in the back. Thank you very much.