16th Street Station Charrette
Location: OakStop, 1721 Broadway, Suite 201, Oakland, CA 94612 (enter on Broadway side)
Date: Saturday, July 20, 2024
Time: 10a-2p
Schedule:
10:00a - 10:15a: Gather
10:15a - 10:30a: Kickoff
10:30a - 1:00p Breakout
1:00p - 2:00p: Recap
Goal: Determine an alternate site plan that preserves the proposed 90 units of housing while also incorporating station reuse opportunities.
Food: Coffee, pastries, sandwich bar
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Charrette on July 20, 2024: Improving the site plan at the 16th St. Station
Key Takeaways
City should investigate 18th Street public access status. This area might be used, shifted, narrowed, or become part of project to allow more flexibility in the site plan
Priorities
Station Reuse
Views of historic resources from Wood Street and Frontage Road
Public use of public areas
Densify and consolidate housing or reconfigure it to allow better visual and physical access to historic area
Historic resources should be protected, maintained, and made attractive in the interim
There are opportunities to connect the development and surrounding community, including other developments and Raimondi Park
There are options to add additional units in the program
Both massing and architectural design should be more sensitive and deferential to the historic resources and to the neighborhood context
Table A
Main Idea: Keep area clear in front of station and baggage wing
Option A
Retain building type, but relocate away from station
Add two 4-unit buildings at corners of current plaza space
Platform space could be used as a market
Narrow access parallel to Frontage Road is one-way: increase space between Frontage Road housing and platform/back of station
Option B
Looked at 18th Street
Identified as public access, but maybe not a road, or not a full-width roadway
Is there potential for adjusting the site plan?
Divides housing on Frontage Road to retain view from that side
Open space view to Signal Tower
It's greener
Outdoor space for community
Building type raised over one layer of parking
About 56 parking spaces under 32 units
Plus elevator
Make the signal tower one special unit
Retain unit type, but reposition
Yield: 91 units
Table B
Elevate Frontage Road units, add trees on Frontage Road
Put buildings around perimeter
What about parking on Frontage Road?
Maybe move the signal tower?
Put a child care facility on the plaza?
Make a curved pedestrian lane which can double as fire lane
Finer grain, facilitates more walking
Using Frontage Road for parking
Narrower Frontage Road
Higher, denser buildings to the north part of the site
Number of units 50+
Podium buildings
Possibly a parking structure?
Table C
Concept of higher at north and south edges, lower in center toward station
Possibly a greater number of units (100+)
"Bowl" idea, lower at station, higher on edges
Consider that there is housing along Frontage Road in development to south of station
Possible taller along Frontage Road, but with a break
Moves view access to north to reveal station and baggage wing, potential additional building (dotted line) along 16th Street
Table D
Remove housing along Frontage Road and replace with parking
Add parking under platform area
Expand platform to create an elevated walkway area, which could connect with surrounding residential area
Stack units in higher denser buildings on north side, parking underneath
164–200 units
Expand tree canopy
