Item 17 - Appropriation Adjustments for Bristol Improvement Project Phase 4

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Bristol Street Corridor Specific Plan March 2018 Rationale: High traffic volumes on Bristol Street and the related noise and air quality conditions have already negatively impacted some residential neighborhoods adjacent to the corridor. In addition, the haphazard mix of uses and the absence of consistent development standards in existing development detracts from the overall character of the local community. New development and use of the frontage parcels on Bristol Street will reduce existing adverse conditions without imposing additional impacts on adjacent areas that would further erode the building fabric and quality of street life for the neighborhoods. Page 116 Objectives: • Convert shallow frontage parcels adjacent to residential areas, schools, or churches into landscape buffer areas. • Require visual screening and noise buffers between the Bristol Street Corridor and adjacent residential and community facility uses. • Establish standards for the type and placement of lighting within the corridor that will minimize light and glare nuisances in adjacent residential uses. • Establish land -uses and development standards and guidelines that will consider security and privacy concerns of uses adjacent to the corridor, • Develop guidelines for processing and approving new uses in the planning area in the transition period between adoption of the Specific Plan and its implementation. • Adjacent to residential areas, land uses should be restricted to community facilities, neighborhood -serving commercial and professional office uses; general retail and other traffic -generating uses should be restricted to frontage parcels and/or to corners on major cross streets.