LARKSPUR SMART STATION AREA PLAN Public Review Draft. March 2014

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1 SMART STATION AREA PLAN Public Review Draft March 2014

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3 Table of Content Introduction Project Background 1.1 Planning Proce 1.2 Area Context 1.4 Community Outreach and Participation 1.8 Exiting Condition Land Ue Context 2.2 Tranportation, Circulation & Parking 2.16 Regulatory Context 2.31 Utilitie and Infratructure 2.43 Area Demographic and Market Demand 2.48 Viion Background 3.2 Initial Plan Concept 3.4 Community Feedback on Land Ue Alternative and Circulation Framework 3.9 Concluion 3.10 Viion for the SMART Station Area 3.11 Land Ue Integrated Land Ue / Tranportation Strategy 4.2 Priority Development Site and Preferred Ue 4.2 Illutrative Development Plan 4.6 Land Ue Deignation 4.9 Land Ue Plan 4.11 Land Ue Policy Recommendation 4.12 Acce, Circulation and Parking Integrated Land Ue / Tranportation Strategy 5.2 Complete Street 5.4 Pedetrian and Bicycle Circulation 5.12 Tranit Service 5.18 Parking Management 5.18 Tranportation Demand Management Program 5.22 Acce, Circulation and Parking Policy Recommendation 5.24 Urban Deign Guideline Guiding Principle 6.2 Urban Deign Zone 6.2 Building and Site Deign 6.8 Public Environment 6.20 Public Facilitie and Service Utility Infratructure 7.2 School 7.4 Public Service 7.4 Implementation Next Step 8.2 Regulatory Action 8.4 Implementation Action Plan 8.5 Funding Strategy 8.8 Appendice Appendix 1: Financing Model and Funding Source A.2 Appendix 2: Affordable Houing and Anti-Diplacement Strategy A.6 SMART STATION AREA PLAN February 2014 iii

4 Lit of figure Figure 1.1: Station Area 1.3 Figure 1.2: Larkpur Geographic Context 1.4 Figure 1.3: Station Area Zone 1.5 Figure 1.4: Hitoric Landmark 1.7 Figure 2.1: Exiting Land Ue 2.3 Figure 2.2: Station Area Parkland and Open Space 2.9 Figure 2.3: Property Ownerhip 2.10 Figure 2.4: Station Area Development Pattern 2.11 Figure 2.5: Major Roadway 2.17 Figure 2.6: Exiting and Currently Planned Bicycle Facilitie 2.22 Figure 2.7: Exiting and Currently Planned Pedetrian Facilitie 2.24 Figure 2.8: Bicycle and Pedetrian Network Gap 2.25 Figure 2.9: Weekday Parking Demand 2.26 Figure 2.10: Central Marin Ferry Connection Multi-Ue Pathway Project 2.29 Figure 2.11: General Plan Land Ue Map 2.32 Figure 2.12: Zoning Ditrict 2.35 Figure 2.13: 100-Year Flood Zone 2.45 Figure 2.14: Shoreline Area Vulnerable to Sea Level Rie 2.47 Figure 3.1: Opportunity Site 3.4 Figure 3.2: Land Ue Alternative Figure 3.3: Land Ue Alternative Figure 3.4: Land Ue Alternative Figure 4.1: Priority Development Site 4.2 Figure 4.2: Illutrative Development Plan - Maximum Site Buildout 4.7 Figure 4.3: Propoed Land Ue Plan 4.10 Figure 5.1: Circulation Network 5.5 Figure 5.2: Larkpur Landing Circle Interection Improvement 5.6 Figure 5.3: Exiting and Propoed Section of Larkpur Landing Circle at Serenity 5.8 Figure 5.4: Exiting and Propoed Redwood Highway Section 5.9 Figure 5.5: Section of Typical Internal Neighborhood Lane with On-Street Parking 5.10 Figure 5.6: Section of Typical Pedetrian Pathway 5.11 Figure 5.7: Exiting and Propoed Pedetrian Facilitie 5.13 Figure 5.8: Exiting and Propoed Bicycle Facilitie 5.14 Figure 5.9: Priority Acceible Path of Travel 5.16 Figure 6.1: Deign Zone 6.2 Figure 6.2: Exiting and Propoed Development Pattern 6.9 Figure 6.3: Area Elevation Above Sea Level 6.11 Figure 6.4: Allowable Building Height 6.13 Figure 6.5: Illutrative Cro-ection through the Larkpur Ferry Terminal Site and Wood Iland 6.14 Figure 6.6: Illutrative Cro Section through the Larkpur Ferry Terminal Site with a Two-tory Reidential Structure 6.15 Figure 6.7: Marin Country Mart Promenade Location 6.25 Figure 6.8: Ferry Terminal Plaza Location 6.27 Figure 6.9: Public Park and Open Space Improvement 6.29 Figure 7.1: School Ditrict and Location 7.5 draft iv CITY OF

5 Lit of table Table 2.1: Exiting Land Ue in the Station Area 2.2 Table 2.2: Commute Mode Characteritic 2.16 Table 2.3: Exiting Public Tranit Daily Riderhip in Station area 2.20 Table 2.4 : Zoning Code Standard 2.36 Table 3.1: MTC Place Type 3.3 Table 4.1: Illutrative Maximum Development Potential 4.8 Table 4.2: Potential Maximum Reidential Station Area Development by Sub-Area 4.8 Table 5.1: Exiting Parking Demand Rate 5.19 Table 5.2: City of Larkpur and Station Area Plan Off-Street Parking Requirement 5.20 Table 5.3: Propoed Parking Rate 5.20 Table 5.4: Station Area Plan Bicycle Parking Requirement 5.21 Table 8.1: Implementation Action Plan 8.6 SMART STATION AREA PLAN February 2014 v

6 Key PARTICIPANTS City of Larkpur Staff Neal Toft, Director of Planning and Building Julia Capao, Aitant Planner Hamid Shamapour, Director of Public Work Dick Whitley, Director of Recreation Citizen Adviory Committee (CAC) Reident, Buine and Property Owner Gail Bloom Ari Blum John Browne David Epoito Michael Folk Bruce Friedrick Jame Holme Michael Hooper Randy Kokke Jame Moore Virginia Moore (alternate) Nancy Nakai Joakim Othu Jared Polky Robert Shore David Sternberg Nancy Weninger Library Board Don Graff Dave Kanter (alternate) Planning Commiion Richard Young Jeff Stahl (alternate) Heritage Preervation Board Helen Heitkamp City Council Brad Marh Dan Hillmer (alternate) Park and Recreation Commiion Bob Matteo Jeanne Friedel (alternate) Technical Adviory Committee (TAC) In addition to City taff lited above: Lindy Lowe (interim), Bay Conervation & Development Commiion (BCDC) Norma Jellion, Golden Gate Bridge Highway & Tranportation Ditrict (GGBHTD) Carey Lando, County of Marin Suzanne Looen, Tranportation Authority of Marin (TAM) Linda Meckel, Sonoma-Marin Rail Tranit (SMART) John Nemeth, Sonoma-Marin Rail Tranit (SMART) Ian Peteron, Bay Area Air Quality Management Ditrict (BAAQMD) Mark Shorett, Aociation of Bay Area Government (ABAG) Theree Trivedi, Metropolitan Tranportation Commiion (MTC) Amy Van Doren, Marin Tranit Joh Widmann, Golden Gate Bridge Highway & Tranportation Ditrict (GGBHTD) draft vi CITY OF

7 Conultant Team Land Ue and Urban Deign BMS Deign Group Barbara Maloney Beth Foter Joy Glaier Tim Honeck Tranportation Planning and Parking Fehr & Peer Bob Grandy Matt Goyne Parii Aociate Tranportation Planning David Parii Ofelia Guner Real Etate and Market Analyi BAE Janet Smith-Heimer Paul Peninger Stephanie Hagar Civil Engineering and Cot Etimating BKF Dan Schaefer Eric Girod Meghan Cronin SMART STATION AREA PLAN February 2014 vii

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9 1 Introduction Project Background The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Tranit (SMART) i a paenger train and multi-ue pathway project that will extend 70 mile from Cloverdale in Sonoma County to Larkpur, Marin County. SMART will utilize an exiting but long-dormant rail corridor formerly ued by the Northwetern Pacific Railroad (NWP). The SMART corridor generally parallel U.S. Highway through Sonoma and Marin Countie, and will erve 14 tation when completed. The firt phae of the SMART project, expected to be operational by 2015 or 2016, will connect Railroad Square in Santa Roa with Downtown San Rafael. Service from Santa Roa north to Cloverdale, and from San Rafael outh to Larkpur will be extended a SMART receive additional funding. The Larkpur tation i planned to be located in the Larkpur Landing area, adjacent to Highway and the CalPark Tunnel multi-ue path. Through the General Plan update proce initiated in 2010, City official and the General Plan Update Citizen Adviory Committee had identified the Larkpur Landing and Redwood Highway neighborhood a having potential for future land ue change, due to it proximity to regional tranit, the planned SMART tation, and the CalPark Tunnel multi-ue path. Future tudy of thoe neighborhood wa recommended to evaluate the potential and feaibility of land ue change, particularly in regard to circulation impact and vulnerability to flooding and ea level rie. That ame year, the Aociation of Bay Area Government (ABAG) and Metropolitan Tranportation Commiion (MTC) announced the availability of grant funding for juridiction in the Bay Area with tranit tation planned or under contruction to conduct land ue and circulation tudie of the area extending a half-mile radiu from the planned or built tranit tation the tation area (ee Figure 1.1). The City of Larkpur applied for a tation area planning grant of $480,000 in January 2011 to fund land ue and circulation tudie of the Larkpur Landing area and a SMART STATION AREA PLAN February

10 1 Introduction portion of Greenbrae area. The City obtained matching grant fund totaling $120,000 from partner agencie, including the Tranportation Authority of Marin, the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Tranportation Ditrict, the County of Marin, and the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Tranit Ditrict, and from the City itelf. The funding partner agencie, all with direct interet in the tation area, upported incluion of the Redwood Highway area in the planning proce, though it extend beyond the half-mile radiu from the tation, due to the interrelationhip between circulation and land ue between the three ub-area. In applying for the tation area planning grant, the City Council confirmed the City commitment to the grant program goal, which are to: Boot tranit riderhip and reduce vehicle mile traveled. Increae walking, bicycling, carpooling, carharing, local tranit and other tranportation option for people in the area. Increae the houing upply, particularly affordable houing near tation area. Locate key ervice and retail opportunitie near tation area. The City Council alo identified the City prioritie and deired outcome 1 for the tation area planning proce: A circulation and parking plan for the Larkpur/Greenbrae area. A land ue and houing opportunity tudy for the Larkpur Landing area that would look at potential mixed-ue opportunitie relative to the exiting commercial, office, and ferry terminal ite. A tudy of the Redwood Highway area, including circulation, parking, land ue, and houing. In May 2011, ABAG and MTC granted $480,000 in tation area planning grant fund to the City to prepare a land ue and circulation plan for the tation area. The grant alo funded preparation of a program-level Environmental Impact Report to analyze potential environmental impact of circulation and land ue change in the tation area and potential rik to development in the tation area poed by natural hazard. Policy recommendation of the 1 City of Larkpur Reolution Larkpur SMART Station Area Plan hould be incorporated into the General Plan update proce to provide guidance for the future of the tation area. Planning Proce Preparation of the Larkpur SMART Station Area Plan began in May 2012, marked by kick-off meeting of the City Council-appointed Citizen Adviory Committee (CAC), and the Technical Adviory Committee (TAC). Tak and miletone throughout the tation area planning proce include: Exiting Condition Report (July 2012) The Exiting Condition Report include a comprehenive aement of the exiting phyical condition, regulatory context, and utilitie and infratructure found in the tation area. Market Analyi Memorandum (Augut 2012) Thi memo decribe the demographic and economic trend in the tation area; houing, houehold unit, and employment projection; and real etate market condition and demand. Affordable Houing and Anti-Diplacement Strategy (November 2012) Thi Strategy develop goal and implementation meaure to provide a range of houing option affordable to houehold at all income. Parking Demand Analyi Memorandum (November 2012) Thi memorandum document the exiting and future parking condition for the tation area and recommend parking ratio for reidential and commercial development. Land Ue Alternative Analyi Report (December 2012) The Land Ue Alternative Analyi Report feature the land ue alternative that were developed and analyzed for the tation area, a well a a circulation framework that i common to each plan. Infratructure Need Analyi Technical Report (March 2013) Thi report provide an analyi of the anticipated infratructure improvement aociated with the preferred plan identified in the Land Ue Alternative Analyi Report. The analyi include utility and circulation infratructure a well a new public park and other amenitie and improvement to two exiting park. draft 1.2 CITY OF

11 Introduction 1 STUDY AREA LEGEND STATION AREA BOUNDARY STUDY AREA CITY/COUNTY BOUNDARIES LEGEND SMART STATION LOCATION STATION AREA BOUNDARY STUDY AREA FERRY TERMINAL CITY/COUNTY BOUNDARIES LEGEND WATER SMART STATION LOCATION PARKS STATION AREA BOUNDARY OPEN CITY/COUNTY SPACE FERRY TERMINAL BOUNDARIES WATER SCHOOLS SMART STATION LOCATION PARKS FERRY TERMINAL OPEN SPACE WATER SCHOOLS PARKS OPEN SPACE SCHOOLS CITY OF SMART STATION AREA PLAN CITY OF SMART STATION AREA PLAN CITY OF SMART STATION AREA PLAN Piper Park Larkpur Creek DOHERTY DRIVE Tamical High School LOS CERROS DR. S. ELISEO DR. S. ELISEO DR. Larkpur Creek LOS CERROS DR. S. ELISEO DR. Larkpur Creek DOHERTY DRIVE LOS CERROS DR. DOHERTY DRIVE LA CUESTRA DR. LA CUESTRA DR. VIA LA BRISA San Andrea High School BRETANO WAY Bon Air Shopping Center VIA LA BRISA Corte Madera Creek Redwood High School RIVIERA CIRCLE Sandra Marker Trail BRETANO WAY LA CUESTRA DR. VIA LA BRISA RIVIERA CIRCLE Sandra Marker Trail Corte Madera Creek RIVIERA CIRCLE Sandra Marker Trail BRETANO WAY Corte Madera Creek BARRY WAY BARRY WAY Niven Park BARRY WAY High Canal High Canal LUCKY DRIVE LUCKY DRIVE High Canal ELISEO DR. Drake Landing TAMAL VISTA BLVD. TAMAL VISTA TAMAL BLVD. VISTA BLVD. LUCKY DRIVE ELISEO DR. Greenbrae Hill ELISEO DR. Greenbrae School Park FIFER AVE FIFER AVE FIFER AVE WORNUM DRIVE WORNUM DRIVE SAN RAFAEL SAN RAFAEL WORNUM DRIVE SAN RAFAEL REDWOOD HIGHWAY REDWOOD HIGHWAY Cot Plu Plaza REDWOOD HIGHWAY VIA LA CUMBRE Corte Madera Shorebird Marh VIA LA CUMBRE VIA LA CUMBRE Marin Airporter Wood Iland Cal Park Hill Tunnel Bike Route Larkpur Office Marin Century L.L. Country Cinema Mart Larkpur Ferry Terminal + Parking Cal Park Hill Tunnel Bike Route Larkpur Court Courtyard Hotel LANDING GREENBRAE BOARDWALK CORTE MADERA GREENBRAE BOARDWALK CORTE MADERA Cal Park Hill Tunnel Bike Route LANDING LANDING GREENBRAE BOARDWALK CORTE MADERA Madera Bay Park Site Corte Madera Marh State Ecological Reerve Serenity Neighborhood Park SAN RAFAEL SAN RAFAEL SAN RAFAEL Drake Way Miwok Park Drake Cove Remillard Park Figure 1.1: Station Area San Francico Bay San Francico Bay COUNTY OF MARIN COUNTY OF MARIN COUNTY OF MARIN San Francico Bay SMART STATION AREA PLAN February

12 1 Introduction Implementation and Financing Strategy (March 2013) - Thi memo identifie potential funding ource, time frame and implementing agencie for each infratructure item. It alo decribe a variety of financing model and funding ource that may be conidered over the long-term to fund future public improvement not yet identified. The Strategy alo conider potential policie and program for addreing houing and economic development need in the tation area building on the Affordable Houing and Anti-Diplacement Strategy. Urban Deign Guideline (April 2013) The Urban Deign Guideline provide concept and tandard to direct the phyical form of future development. Thee document, a well a the preentation made at each meeting during the planning proce, are available on the Station Area Plan webpage ( A program Environmental Impact Report (EIR), alo available on the webpage, ha been prepared to analyze the environmental impact of thi Plan; the EIR provide more detail on exiting and projected traffic generation than i included in thi document. Area Context The City of Larkpur i located in Marin County, bordered to the north by San Rafael, to the outheat by Corte Madera, to the outh by Mill Valley, and to the wet and north by the County of Marin. It i approximately 13 mile north acro the Golden Gate Bridge from downtown San Francico, and approximately 9 mile wet acro the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge from downtown Richmond and Contra Cota County. U.S. Highway run north-outh through the eatern portion of Larkpur, connecting outh to San Francico, and north through Marin to Sonoma County. The Larkpur SMART tation area conit of 405 acre located in eatern Larkpur, approximately 1.5 mile northeat of the city downtown core, at the edge of San Francico Bay (ee Figure 1.2). The tation area i defined by a combination of the Larkpur city boundary and a ½-mile radiu around the planned SMART tation location. The SMART tation, repreenting the end of the SMART rail line a it come outh from San Rafael, i located in the Figure 1.2: Larkpur Geographic Context MAGNOLIA AVE. BON MILL VALLEY AIRRD. MAGNOLIA AVE. DOHERTY DRIVE TAMALPAIS DR. CORTE MADERA LANDING FERRY SAN RAFAEL ANDERSON DR. 580 SAN QUENTIN San Francico Bay SMART right-of-way that parallel Highway, near the terminu of the Cal Park Hill Tunnel bike path, and behind and above the Century Larkpur Landing Cinema. The tation area i located where everal juridiction converge, including Larkpur, San Rafael, Corte Madera and the County of Marin. It i biected by Highway running north-outh, and Sir Franci Drake Boulevard running roughly eat-wet. Corte Madera Creek flow through the tation area to the bay. draft 1.4 CITY OF

13 Introduction 1 SUB-AREAS LEGEND STATION AREA BOUNDARY SUB-AREAS CITY/COUNTY BOUNDARIES LEGEND SMART STATION LOCATION STATION AREA BOUNDARY SUB-AREAS FERRY TERMINAL CITY/COUNTY BOUNDARIES LEGEND SMART STATION LOCATION STATION AREA BOUNDARY CITY/COUNTY FERRY LANDING TERMINAL BOUNDARIES AREA SMART STATION LOCATION GREENBRAE AREA FERRY TERMINAL LANDING AREA REDWOOD HIGHWAY AREA GREENBRAE AREA LANDING AREA REDWOOD HIGHWAY AREA GREENBRAE AREA CITY OF SMART STATION AREA PLAN REDWOOD HIGHWAY AREA CITY OF SMART STATION AREA PLAN CITY OF SMART STATION AREA PLAN S. ELISEO DR. Larkpur Creek LOS CERROS DR. S. ELISEO DR. Larkpur Creek LOS CERROS DR. S. ELISEO DR. Larkpur Creek DOHERTY DRIVE DOHERTY DRIVE LOS CERROS DR. DOHERTY DRIVE LA CUESTRA DR. LA CUESTRA DR. VIA LA BRISA VIA LA BRISA BRETANO WAY Corte Madera Creek RIVIERA CIRCLE Sandra Marker Trail BRETANO WAY LA CUESTRA DR. VIA LA BRISA Corte Madera Creek RIVIERA CIRCLE Sandra Marker Trail RIVIERA CIRCLE Sandra Marker Trail BRETANO WAY Corte Madera Creek BARRY WAY BARRY WAY BARRY WAY High Canal High Canal LUCKY DRIVE LUCKY DRIVE High Canal ELISEO DR. ELISEO DR. TAMAL VISTA BLVD. TAMAL VISTA TAMAL BLVD. VISTA BLVD. LUCKY DRIVE ELISEO DR. FIFER AVE WORNUM DRIVE SAN RAFAEL GREENBRAE FIFER AVE WORNUM DRIVE SAN RAFAEL GREENBRAE FIFER AVE WORNUM DRIVE SAN RAFAEL GREENBRAE REDWOOD HIGHWAY REDWOOD HIGHWAY REDWOOD HIGHWAY VIA LA CUMBRE VIA LA CUMBRE VIA LA CUMBRE REDWOOD HIGHWAY Cal Park Hill Tunnel Bike Route LANDING GREENBRAE BOARDWALK CORTE MADERA REDWOOD HIGHWAY REDWOOD HIGHWAY Cal Park Hill Tunnel Bike Route LANDING LANDING LANDING Cal Park Hill Tunnel Bike Route GREENBRAE BOARDWALK CORTE MADERA LANDING LANDING GREENBRAE BOARDWALK CORTE MADERA Figure 1.3: Station Area Zone SAN RAFAEL SAN RAFAEL SAN RAFAEL San Francico Bay San Francico Bay COUNTY OF MARIN COUNTY OF MARIN COUNTY OF MARIN San Francico Bay SMART STATION AREA PLAN February

14 1 Introduction Station Area Zone A hown in Figure 1.3, the tation area can be divided into three geographic ub-area. The Larkpur Landing area i bounded by Highway and the SMART right-of-way to the wet, a wooded ridgeline and the San Rafael city border to the north, the ½-mile radiu from the propoed future SMART tation to the eat, and Corte Madera Creek/Larkpur city boundary to the outh. It comprie the propoed future SMART tation ite, the Larkpur Ferry Terminal, and a divere mix of ue including retail, a hotel, office, ingle- and multi-family reidence, park and open pace, and a large, motly vacant parcel owned by Sanitary Ditrict #1 of Marin County. The Greenbrae area i bounded on the eat and north by the ½-mile radiu and the Larkpur city limit, to the eat by Highway, and to the outh by Corte Madera Creek and i biected by Sir Franci Drake Boulevard. North of the boulevard i a portion of the larger Greenbrae Hill ingle-family neighborhood, while outh of Sir Franci Drake are a mix of office, retail, ga tation and a reidential townhome community. The Redwood Highway area i located at the outh end of the tation area. It i bounded by Corte Madera Creek to the north, Wornum Drive to the outh, and the city boundary on both the eat and wet. The Redwood Highway area conit of a mix of ue including retail, light indutrial and higherdenity reidential development in the form of two mobile home park and one RV park. Though the entirety of the Redwood Highway area i included in the tation area, it extend outh of the half-mile radiu urrounding the SMART tation. Development Hitory Larkpur wa originally inhabited by the Miwok Indian who hunted and fihed along the alt marh. The area wa dicovered in the early 1800 by the Spanih, became part of the Mexican Republic in 1824, and wa then relinquihed to the United State in the The firt ettler in town proper were lumbermen, farmer and rancher. A railroad tation wa built in town in 1891, linking the town with the ferrie that travered the San Francico Bay, and attracting ummer viitor and the firt commuter. Commercial building and, in 1913, City Hall were built in what would become downtown, along Magnolia Avenue, a county road that connected Saualito with San Rafael. With a population approaching 600 double that in ummer the city celebrated it official incorporation in Within the tation area, development hitory begin before incorporation. The firt ignificant ettlement occurred jut outide the tation area in the 1850, with California firt prion, San Quentin State Prion, and the adjacent San Quentin Village. In the early 1890, the Green Brae Brick Yard, owned by the Remillard Brick Company, began making brick. Between 1891 and 1915, the company produced around 500,000 brick per year in their Green Brae kiln, upplying brick to the entire Pacific Coat. The brick yard upported a mall community of laborer who lived nearby. The community included 16 cabin for workmen, a cookhoue, table, blackmith hop, vegetable garden, and an orchard. Two building from the Remillard Brick Company Green Brae operation have been preerved and both are located within the tation area: the Remillard Brick Kiln and the Remillard Superintendent Houe (ee Figure 1.4). Located at 125 Sir Franci Drake Boulevard, the kiln, together with it chimney tack, i one of the few remaining example of the Hoffmann Type kiln in the United State. The Brick Kiln wa renovated in 1991 with the incluion of an additional office building. Today, the Melting Pot retaurant occupie the hitoric kiln building. The Brick Kiln building i lited with the National Regiter of Hitoric Place, and i alo a State Hitoric Landmark. The Remillard Superintendent Houe i a one-tory hip roof Victorian tyle houe built in the Originally located near the Remillard Brick Kiln, in 1984 the houe wa donated by the City of Larkpur to the San Rafael Cooperative Nurery School (now called the Children Cottage Cooperative Pre-chool), and wa relocated to 2900 Larkpur Landing Circle. Any future development propoed in the Station Area Plan hould repect thee two hitoric building. Jut outide the tation area and under the juridiction of Marin County i Greenbrae Boardwalk, a mall community of waterfront houe along the draft 1.6 CITY OF

15 RAFAEL SAN RAFAEL Introduction 1 S. ELISEO DR. Larkpur Creek LOS CERROS DR. Corte Madera Creek. The Boardwalk ha a vibrant hitory. The firt ark (floating houe) landed at Greenbrae Boardwalk in The Greenbrae Boardwalk community developed in the 1920 and 30. Over the year, the ark have tranitioned from houe on barge to houe on foundation above the mean high tide line. Today there are 49 home on the Boardwalk. LA CUESTRA DR. The Hutchinon Quarry began eriou operation in 1924 in the area below the ridge in Larkpur Landing, uing barge to upply quarried cruhed rock to variou location around the Bay Area. The legacy can till be een in the rugged 120-foot high gray tone cliff behind the multi-family reidential development. Bon Air Shopping Center In the 1940, reidential development in the Greenbrae Hill neighborhood began. At that time, the Northwetern Railroad wa extended outh from San Rafael to provide a direct commute line to Point Tiburon. The Greenbrae Station tood near the future SMART tation location. Rail freight traffic continued along thi line until the Drake The Larkpur Ferry Terminal began operating Landing Development of the Larkpur Landing area, with office and a hopping center, began in 1978 and wa deigned to reemble a New England eaport town. Under new ownerhip and renamed, the hopping center (now Marin Country Mart) ha recently been renovated. The Courtyard by Marriott Hotel opened in 1987, and the 250 apartment (built a condominium) at Larkpur Court Corte Madera Creek BARRY WAY were added in Since then, the completion of Serenity and Drake Way apartment ha created a large community of multi-family houing upon the hillide. For generation community member have peculated that Sir Franci Drake landed omewhere between the San Quentin Peninula and the Point Reye Lighthoue in Thi explain the numerou reference to Sir Franci Drake in the area. In 1989, a 30-foot tall tatue of Sir Franci Drake by culptor Denni Patton wa intalled jut off Sir Franci Drake Boulevard acro from the Remillard Brick Kiln. High Canal ELISEO DR. Greenbrae Hill Cot Plu Plaza CUMBRE Marin Airporter Wood Iland Cal Park H Larkpur Office Century L.L. Cinema Marin Country Mart Larkpur Ferry Terminal + Parking CORTE MADERA Larkpur Court Courtyard Hotel LANDING REMILLARD SUPERINTENDENT S HOUSE REMILLARD BRICK KILN Figure 1.4: Hitoric Landmark Serenity Neighborhood Park Drake Way Miwok Park Drake Cove Remillard Park COUNTY OF MARIN Madera Bay Park Site (left) Remillard Brick Kiln (above) Remillard Superintendent Houe San Francico Bay Corte SMART Madera STATION AREA PLAN February 2014 Marh State Ecological Reerve 1.7

16 1 Introduction Community Outreach and Participation Community participation i an integral part of the tation area planning proce. The City employed a variety of method to advertie public workhop, including citywide mailer, pre releae and announcement in local newpaper, letter to property owner and reident, a Station Area Plan webpage ( and e-notification on the City webite (with 200 ubcriber), advertiement in the biannual Larkpur and Corte Madera recreation brochure, taff preence at variou community event uch a the Marin Country Mart Farmer Market and Larkpur-Corte Madera Women Club dicuion panel, and taff canvaing neighborhood to talk with reident and buine owner and pot event flier. All CAC and community comment were recorded and ummarized in meeting ummarie. Conenu comment were incorporated into the draft Plan, while minority opinion were recorded and retained for the record. Throughout the development of the Station Area Plan, the City dieminated information to the public and olicited public comment at the following meeting and workhop: Citizen Adviory Committee (CAC), compried of reident, buine and property owner, and citizen of the city. Meeting with the CAC were held on: May 7, 2012 July 30, 2012 October 18,2012 November 15, 2012 February 21, 2013 May 20, 2013 June 17, 2013 Four community workhop: July 23, 2012 (50 attendee) November 5, 2012 (40 attendee) March 7, 2013 (30 attendee) December 3, 2013 (100 attendee) draft 1.8 CITY OF

17 Introduction 1 Community member worked together to enviion and dicu future land ue for the tation area at Community Workhop #1; dicu tranportation and circulation iue and participate in a voting exercie related to land ue and denity at Community Workhop #2; and dicu propoed urban deign guideline, and identify where and what type of new public pace and pedetrian and bicycle amenitie are needed at Community Workhop #3. SMART STATION AREA PLAN February