- July 28, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
The Pleasanton Planning Commission is set to consider proposed modifications to the Downtown Specific Plan on Wednesday, including requiring more “active” businesses in ground-floor units on Main Street.
The recommendations from city staff, which follow a City Council discussion last month on commercial activity downtown, include more than doubling the amount of space ground-floor businesses on Main Street must devote to a defined “active use.”
The Downtown Specific Plan, updated in August 2019, includes the “active ground floor use overlay” policy, which mandates first-floor commercial operations must be the type of business designed to “promote an active pedestrian environment,” such as retail and restaurants.
As written, the policy requires 25% of the depth of the tenant space to be of active use with exceptions to long-term vacancies and purpose-built bank buildings due to the difficulty in the conversion to other types of establishments.
The policy…
