• Land Use
• Economic Development
• Resource Conservation
• Public Facilities
• Community Health and Sustainability
• Safety
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The addendum explained the What and Why behind our legal and practical reasons for the proposed language changes.
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• Circulation
• Community Character and Placemaking
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High density housing in the wrong places creates more car trips, not less.
The TOD area is the wrong place for high density housing. It will make unbearable traffic congestion in the area even worse.
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• The proposed TOD's size is 70 acres.
• Proposed housing density for the TOD is 30 units per acre.
• The Federal Highway Administration estimates that each household is responsible for between 9.6 and 10.2 vehicle trips per day.
• Doing the math, 70 acres x 30 units per acre x 9.6 vehicle trips per day per household comes out to 21,000 additional vehicle trips per day for that area.
• The city's proposed language has no plan for minimizing or mitigating Diamond Bar's horrible traffic congestion.
• In order to keep Vehicle Miles Traveled to a minimum, any area of high density housing needs vital servicess such as shopping, medical care restaurants and other types of services within walking distance. These types of services are missing in the proposed TOD area.
• Hundreds more car-centric households in the proposed TOD area would add thousands of car trips a day to an area already choked by congestion.
• TOD areas need to be near a transit area with a high volume of trains that connect to essential services. The Metrolink Industry station currently has only 6 trains each way a day into and back from Union Station. As the Metrolink tracks are always busy with a high volume of freight traffic, no opportunity to increase the number of trains each day can be expected.
• A TOD area needs to be walkable. The high volume of vehicular traffic on Brea Canyon and Lemon Avenues is not a pedestrian friendly environment.
• In order to implement the TOD as proposed, a vibrant light industrial area with middle class jobs and many small businesses would need to be destroyed.
• Even worse congestion than we currently experience.
• Loss of our remaining natural open space, undeveloped hillsides and ridges.
• Loss of what's left of our quality of life, and our sense of Country Living..
Please get involved. Diamond Bar's future is literally at stake.