FYI: RE: San Antonio Shopping Center and Merlone Geier Partners plans
Bruce England
See below re my comments regarding the San Antonio Shopping Center
proposals and Showers Drive.
Bye for now!
Bruce
>Subject: RE: San Antonio Shopping Center and Merlone Geier Partners plans
>Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:27:46 -0700
>From: "Tsuda, Randy" <randy...@mountainview.gov>
>To: "Bruce England" <bken...@earthlink.net>
>Cc: "Gilli, Peter" <peter...@mountainview.gov>,
> "Minicucci, Nancy" <Nancy.M...@mountainview.gov>
>
>Bruce:
>
>Thanks for the input. We'll also provide your comments to Mike Couch,
>who manages the Shower Drive side of the Center. He is also considering
>modifications to his portion of the Center.
>
>Randy
>
>______________________________
>Randy Tsuda, AICP
>Director of Community Development
>City of Mountain View
>650.903.6456
>randy...@mountainview.gov
>______________________________
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce England [mailto:bken...@earthlink.net]
>Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 4:13 PM
>To: Alkire, Martin; Tsuda, Randy; in...@merlonegeier.com
>Subject: Re: San Antonio Shopping Center and Merlone Geier Partners
>plans
>
>To:
>Martin Alkire and Randy Tsuda, City of Mountain View Community
>Development
>Mike Grehl, director of Merlone Geier Partners
>
>Hello gentlemen:
>
>The new plans for a portion of the San Antonio Shopping Center look
>very interesting, albeit in their preliminary state, and I think that
>they excellently reflect many of the wishes expressed by Mountain
>View residents at various general plan update visioning meetings.
>
>I hope that, as part of the discussions between the City and MGP, you
>can consider pedestrian and bicycle access improvements from the
>Showers Drive side if such considerations are appropriate or
>applicable. Some specific ideas were included in work done by the
>Mountain View Environmental Sustainability Task Force Transport
>Working Group, and you can find these details on page 18 of the
>document at:
>http://www.bruceengland.com/portfolio/civic/WalkabilityWordFilev3.pdf
>
>The text therein states:
>"Walkability issued related to Showers Drive
>"Showers Drive is currently not very pedestrian friendly. In spite of
>running between two major shopping destinations (San Antonio Shopping
>Center and Target) only one crosswalk is in place, and it is at a far
>southwest point on the road relative to the stores, and the crosswalk
>lacks signals.
>"The task force recommends that the City add crosswalks with signals,
>improve crosswalk visibility, and consider various traffic calming
>features on Showers Drive between California Street and Latham
>Street."
>
>Thanks for your consideration,
>Bruce England
>328 Whisman Station Drive
>Mountain View, CA 94043
>
>cc: Mountain View City Council members