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Vibrant Downtown
The Heart and Soul of America’s
Communities
                   Reaching the Boiling Point




                 Presentation by Clifton Consulting Group
                 Los Altos Forward
                 July 11, 2012
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           Vibrant Downtown
Is Los Altos Dense?

1. Marked by compactness or crowding together
   of parts
2. Slow to understand
3. Having high or relatively high opacity
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           Vibrant Downtown
Who is the Clifton Consulting Group?
• Ted & Jerry Sorensen
 • 30 year residents
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          Vibrant Downtown
Who is the Clifton Consulting Group?
• Ted Sorensen
  • Attorney
  • 15+ years real estate development
  • Master Degree in Engineering
  • Transportation/economic planning
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          Vibrant Downtown
Who is the Clifton Consulting Group?
• Jerry Sorensen
  • 25+ years real estate
  • Market Center management/development
  • Vibrant Buildings
  • Trade Shows
  • Management Consulting
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              Vibrant Downtown

•   Why downtowns are important
•   Metrics for downtowns
•   Economic Levers
•   The Economic Model
•   Parking the key lever
•   Village Feel v. Mass & Bulk
•   Create Great Streets
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             Vibrant Downtown
Why our interest in Downtowns
•   Downtown Development Committee 3
•   How many people?
•   How many more people?
•   How do you quantify?
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           Vibrant Downtown

• If you don’t know where you are!
• If you don’t know where you’re going!

           Any Road will get you there!
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          Vibrant Downtown

“Doing the same thing over again and expecting
 different results.”

                  - Albert Einstein's Definition
                  of Insanity
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          Vibrant Downtown

• Redevelop Downtown
• Revitalize Downtown
• Reenergize Downtown

             Why is it Important?
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               Vibrant Downtown
What is Vibrancy?
To be Vibrant
• “Pulsating with life, vigor, or activity”


• “She (the city) has a vibrant personality”
• “New legislation to help small businesses and restore
  the vibrance of the local economy”
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           Vibrant Downtown

Why Downtowns are important!

A Vibrant Downtown Could…
• Increase retail/restaurant choices
• Increase residential property values
• Protect historic resources
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          Vibrant Downtown

Why Downtowns are important!

 • Pulse of a community
 • Community pride
 • Quality of life
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           Vibrant Downtown

Why Downtowns are important!

 • Attracts new businesses
 • Creates local jobs
 • Allows residents to work in town
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          Vibrant Downtown

Why Downtowns are important!
Did you know?

• $3 Million Annually to MVLA
• $3 Million Annually to LASD
• $900 parcel tax
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           Vibrant Downtown

Why Downtowns are important!
Did you know?

• $4 Million Annually to City


 $10 Million/yr incremental tax revenues!

  ―Is it time for downtown to contribute?‖
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           Vibrant Downtown

Common Characteristics of Vibrant districts

 • Events
 • Entertainment
 • Destination retail
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             Vibrant Downtown

Common Characteristics of Vibrant districts

 •   Geographically remote
 •   Transit hub
 •   College town
 •   Tourist town
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           Vibrant Downtown

Common Characteristics of Vibrant districts

 • Sense of Place
 • Density

    These we can achieve
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           Vibrant Downtown

Architecture – sense of place
How do communities create vibrancy?

 “If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars
   and traffic, If you plan for People and Places, you
   get People and Places.”
                              Fred Kent – Project for Public Spaces
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Metrics for Downtown!
Where are we?

• Inventory the town
 • People
 • Parking Stalls
 • Parking demand
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             Vibrant Downtown
Where are we?
• Inventory the town
 •   Parcels
 •   Buildings
 •   Uses
 •   Owners
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          Vibrant Downtown
• Parking demand
= People

2,200 People
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          Vibrant Downtown

Metrics for Downtown!
How do we quantify vibrant?

• How many people?
• 1,000 people/hr
     William Whyte
     ―Rediscovering the center city‖
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Metrics for Downtown!
How do we define vibrant?

 People on the Street? – 12:30-1:30
 • 575 Castro Street
 • 512 California Ave
 • 933University Ave

 • 870 Castro Street – 8:20-9:20
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           Vibrant Downtown
Metrics for Downtown!
How do we define vibrant?

 How does Los Altos compare?
 • 225 2nd & Main

 • Location • Location • Location
 • ―Where would you open your retail store?‖
               900 – 700 –500 or 225
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           Vibrant Downtown
Metrics for Downtown!
How do we define vibrant?

 225 people
 = 25% vibrant
 = Lack of sales
 = Lack of rent
 = Diminished retail environment
 = Diminished Social Environment
 = Second hand shops – salons – other services
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           Vibrant Downtown
Metrics for Downtown!
How do we quantify vibrant?
• Retail Rents
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           Vibrant Downtown

Metrics for Downtown!
How do we quantify vibrant?

 • Retail rents > Office Rents
 • Retail rents = 4% to 12% (8%) gross sales
 • @8%, $4.00 rent = $600 per square foot
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                               Vibrant Downtown
   Metrics for Downtown!
     Sales Tax Trends – Los Altos Downtown Core
  100.00

    80.00

    60.00
PERCENT




    40.00
                                                                                                     Fourth Street Berkeley
    20.00
                                                                                                     Burlingame
                                                                                                     Los Gatos
          0.00
                                                                                                     Mountain View
    20.00                                                                                            Los Altos

    40.00
                                                                                                    The figures in this chart
                                                                                                    represent the
    60.00                                                                                           downtowns for each of
                                                                                                    the jurisdictions and are
                 1995   1997   1999         2001       2003       2005       2007       2009        not city-wide, i.e., the
                                                                                                    Downtown Los Altos
                                                YEAR                                                Retail Core.



                                      Source: City Data adjusted to 1995 constant dollars by Andrea Eaton
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            Vibrant Downtown
Metrics for Downtown!
How do we define vibrant?

 • 100% Vibrant = $600 / sf annual sales
   • 1995 Avg. Los Altos = $300 / sf Annual sales
   • 2009 Avg. Los Altos = $180 /sf annual sales

 • Los Altos Retail/Restaurant = @8% = $1.20
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Metrics for Downtown!
Retail Rents
= $1.20 ÷ $4.00
= 30% Vibrant

―Our Businesses close, they almost never sell!‖
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          Vibrant Downtown
Metrics for Downtown
Where are you?
• People – 25%
• Economics – 30%

          Where do you want to go?
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            Vibrant Downtown
2008 Rezoning
20 year prediction
• 34 parcels
• 895,000 sq ft office
• 495 residential units
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            Vibrant Downtown
2008 Rezoning
5 year results

• 895,000           • 1,000
• 495               •2
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            Vibrant Downtown
Last 5 years

• 895,000           • 1,000
• 495               • 70
                    • 18 hotel rooms
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       Vibrant Downtown




3 parcels
14,305 sq ft
No Parking capacity
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Metrics for Downtown!
How vibrant do you want to be?

•   2,200 today = 25% to 30% vibrancy
•   50% to 60% = 2,200
•   75% to 90% =4,400
•   100% to 120% = 6,600
•   125% to 150% = 8,800
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           Vibrant Downtown
How Vibrant do you want to be?
• 100%
  • Add 4,400 people

 =2,000 Residential units
  =3,500,000 sq. ft.
  = 1,900,000 sq. ft. office
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Economics – the Dismal Science!
Why don’t properties develop?
• Prop 13
• Property owners have been here forever
• Property owners comfortable—Don’t care

       No Compelling Economic Reason!
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           Vibrant Downtown
Economics – the Dismal Science!
Why will properties develop?

• How to create the boiling point?
 • Market Conditions
 • Policy changes/city levers
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           Vibrant Downtown

Where is the Development Boiling Point?

• Develop a proforma for specific properties
• Developed multiple proformas – testing the
  edge
• The Economic Boiling Point for...
 • Developer
 • Property Owner
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           Vibrant Downtown
The Economic Model
Why will properties develop?

• Policy changes/city levers?
 • Floor Area Ratio (FAR)
 • Height
 • Fees
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           Vibrant Downtown
The Economic Model
Why will properties develop?

• Policy changes/city levers?
 • Use requirements (rents)
 • Parking
    Requirements
    In lieu Program/Fees
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          Vibrant Downtown

The Economic Model
Why will properties develop?
• Ratio Redeveloped Value/Current Value
  = Development Pressure Index (DPI)

Greater DPI = Greater Development opportunity
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           Vibrant Downtown
Achieving the development boiling point!
Additional outputs
• School revenues
• City revenues
• Parking spaces required
• People on the street
• etc
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           Vibrant Downtown

The Economic Model
Why Will Property Develop?

• Case Study #1         2001
 • Office Rent $7.50
 • Parking 4/1000
 • No In Lieu program
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                                    Net New Development


              3,000,000



              2,500,000
                                                                             Six Story

                                                                             Five Story

                                                                             Four Story
              2,000,000
                                                                             Three Story
Square Feet




                                                                             Current

              1,500,000



              1,000,000



               500,000



                     0
                          0   1-5     6-10           11-15   16-20   21-25
                                             Years
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          Vibrant Downtown

The Economic Model
Why Will Property Develop?

• Case Study #2         Current Situation
 • Office Rent $4.00
 • Parking 3.3/1000
 • No In Lieu Program
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                                    Net New Development


              3,000,000



              2,500,000
                                                                             Six Story

                                                                             Five Story

                                                                             Four Story
              2,000,000
                                                                             Three Story
Square Feet




                                                                             Current

              1,500,000



              1,000,000



               500,000



                     0
                          0   1-5     6-10           11-15   16-20   21-25
                                             Years
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                Vibrant Downtown

The Economic Model
Why Will Property Develop?

• Case Study #3
 • Office Rent $4.00
 • Parking 2.2/1000*
 • $10,000 In Lieu Fee**

 *Based on 4 recent parking studies of 22 office buildings in Los Altos
 ** Based on Parking, Best Practices.
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                                    Net New Development


              3,000,000



              2,500,000
                                                                             Six Story

                                                                             Five Story

                                                                             Four Story
              2,000,000
                                                                             Three Story
Square Feet




                                                                             Current

              1,500,000



              1,000,000



               500,000



                     0
                          0   1-5     6-10           11-15   16-20   21-25
                                             Years
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                                 Daily Census


         8000


         7000


         6000                                                     Six Story

                                                                  Five Story
People




         5000                                                     Four Story

                                                                  Three Story

         4000                                                     Current



         3000


         2000
                0   1-5   6-10            11-15   16-20   21-25

                                  Years
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          Vibrant Downtown

Why Downtowns are important!
Did you know?

A Vibrant Downtown Could Contribute…
• $3 Million Annually to MVLA
• $3 Million Annually to LASD
• $4 Million Annually to City

 $10 Million/yr incremental tax revenues!
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           Vibrant Downtown
Should we zone for dollars?


          NO!
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           Vibrant Downtown
We Should zone for…


• Great streets
• Distinctive Architecture
• A sense of place
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           Vibrant Downtown


Parking Requirements
A Quick History
• Nobody studied Parking!
 1. Build More!
 2. What are their requirements?
 3. What does ITE recommend?
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           Vibrant Downtown

Parking Requirements & Parking
 Management
• Lead Poison
• The first step – The seminal step to
  revitalizing downtown!
• Without change – Look for continuing
  decline
 ▫ Economics
 ▫ Vibrancy
 ▫ As the Social Center/Place
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             Vibrant Downtown

Parking Best Practices
•   Understand current requirements
•   Medium term growth requirement
•   Efficiencies in Parking lay-out
•   Efficiencies in Parking management
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           Vibrant Downtown


Best Practices Los Altos
• Establish a Parking Benefit District (PBD)
• Create a parking In-lieu program
• Adopt parking requirements based in reality
• Identify future parking
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           Vibrant Downtown


Los Altos Actual Average Demand!
• Private Office – 1.6 per thousand!
• Average Peak – 2.0 per thousand!
• Grocery Retail – 2.4 per thousand!
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          Vibrant Downtown


Parking Requirements
• Mountain View
• Palo Alto
• Burlingame
• 3000 Sand Hill Rd.
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           Vibrant Downtown


Parking In-Lieu Program
Benefits for Los Altos
• Would open up development
• Creates shared parking resources
• Shared Resources lead to activity (vibrancy) on
  the street.
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            Vibrant Downtown


• ―The Opinion of this mischievous Effect from
  Lead is at least above Sixty Years old; and you
  will observe with Concern how long a useful
  Truth may be known, and exist, before it is
  generally receiv’d and practis’d on‖
                        Benjamin Franklin
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Great Streets
• Building to street Ratio
  • ½ to 1
  • 1 to 1
Los Altos Buildings are 25% to 30%
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                   Greentown Los Altos
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First Street
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First Street
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Commissioned by Design, Community and Environment
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But I can’t see the mountains!
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           Vibrant Downtown
But I can’t see the mountains!
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           Vibrant Downtown
But I can’t see the mountains!
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San Bruno, CA
El Camino Real - San Mateo Avenue
80
San Bruno, CA
El Camino Real - San Mateo Avenue
81
San Bruno, CA
El Camino Real - San Mateo Avenue
82
San Bruno, CA
El Camino Real - San Mateo Avenue
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           Vibrant Downtown

We want a more vibrant Downtown!
• Greater economic vitality
  = Taller buildings/more density
• You must reach the Development Boiling Point!
• Nostalgic feel low density
  = Diminished retail
• Excessive Parking
  = Stunted downtown
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           Vibrant Downtown

We want a more vibrant Downtown!
The model
• Informs Community
• Informs Policy Makers
• Identifies Alternatives/Tradeoffs

A Powerful tool for a community based visioning
 process
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             Vibrant Downtown

Los Altos Recent survey

•   47% opposed
•   43% supported
•   3 stories or more
•   What if they knew?
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          Vibrant Downtown

Why Downtowns are important!
What is the vibrant downtown experience?


 ―What attracts people most, it
  would appear, is other people‖
                               Walkable Streets
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                   Greentown Los Altos
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Downtown Vibrancy Metrics

  • 1. Vibrant Downtown The Heart and Soul of America’s Communities Reaching the Boiling Point Presentation by Clifton Consulting Group Los Altos Forward July 11, 2012
  • 2. 2 Vibrant Downtown Is Los Altos Dense? 1. Marked by compactness or crowding together of parts 2. Slow to understand 3. Having high or relatively high opacity
  • 3. 3 Vibrant Downtown Who is the Clifton Consulting Group? • Ted & Jerry Sorensen • 30 year residents
  • 4. 4 Vibrant Downtown Who is the Clifton Consulting Group? • Ted Sorensen • Attorney • 15+ years real estate development • Master Degree in Engineering • Transportation/economic planning
  • 5. 5 Vibrant Downtown Who is the Clifton Consulting Group? • Jerry Sorensen • 25+ years real estate • Market Center management/development • Vibrant Buildings • Trade Shows • Management Consulting
  • 6. 6 Vibrant Downtown • Why downtowns are important • Metrics for downtowns • Economic Levers • The Economic Model • Parking the key lever • Village Feel v. Mass & Bulk • Create Great Streets
  • 7. 7 Vibrant Downtown Why our interest in Downtowns • Downtown Development Committee 3 • How many people? • How many more people? • How do you quantify?
  • 8. 8 Vibrant Downtown • If you don’t know where you are! • If you don’t know where you’re going! Any Road will get you there!
  • 9. 9 Vibrant Downtown “Doing the same thing over again and expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein's Definition of Insanity
  • 10. 10 Vibrant Downtown • Redevelop Downtown • Revitalize Downtown • Reenergize Downtown Why is it Important?
  • 11. 11 Vibrant Downtown What is Vibrancy? To be Vibrant • “Pulsating with life, vigor, or activity” • “She (the city) has a vibrant personality” • “New legislation to help small businesses and restore the vibrance of the local economy”
  • 12. 12 Vibrant Downtown Why Downtowns are important! A Vibrant Downtown Could… • Increase retail/restaurant choices • Increase residential property values • Protect historic resources
  • 13. 13 Vibrant Downtown Why Downtowns are important! • Pulse of a community • Community pride • Quality of life
  • 14. 14 Vibrant Downtown Why Downtowns are important! • Attracts new businesses • Creates local jobs • Allows residents to work in town
  • 15. 15 Vibrant Downtown Why Downtowns are important! Did you know? • $3 Million Annually to MVLA • $3 Million Annually to LASD • $900 parcel tax
  • 16. 16 Vibrant Downtown Why Downtowns are important! Did you know? • $4 Million Annually to City $10 Million/yr incremental tax revenues! ―Is it time for downtown to contribute?‖
  • 17. 17 Vibrant Downtown Common Characteristics of Vibrant districts • Events • Entertainment • Destination retail
  • 18. 18 Vibrant Downtown Common Characteristics of Vibrant districts • Geographically remote • Transit hub • College town • Tourist town
  • 19. 19 Vibrant Downtown Common Characteristics of Vibrant districts • Sense of Place • Density These we can achieve
  • 20. 20 Vibrant Downtown Architecture – sense of place How do communities create vibrancy? “If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic, If you plan for People and Places, you get People and Places.” Fred Kent – Project for Public Spaces
  • 21. 21 Vibrant Downtown Metrics for Downtown! Where are we? • Inventory the town • People • Parking Stalls • Parking demand
  • 22. 22 Vibrant Downtown Where are we? • Inventory the town • Parcels • Buildings • Uses • Owners
  • 23. 23 Vibrant Downtown • Parking demand = People 2,200 People
  • 24. 24 Vibrant Downtown Metrics for Downtown! How do we quantify vibrant? • How many people? • 1,000 people/hr William Whyte ―Rediscovering the center city‖
  • 25. 25 Vibrant Downtown Metrics for Downtown! How do we define vibrant? People on the Street? – 12:30-1:30 • 575 Castro Street • 512 California Ave • 933University Ave • 870 Castro Street – 8:20-9:20
  • 26. 26 Vibrant Downtown Metrics for Downtown! How do we define vibrant? How does Los Altos compare? • 225 2nd & Main • Location • Location • Location • ―Where would you open your retail store?‖ 900 – 700 –500 or 225
  • 27. 27 Vibrant Downtown Metrics for Downtown! How do we define vibrant? 225 people = 25% vibrant = Lack of sales = Lack of rent = Diminished retail environment = Diminished Social Environment = Second hand shops – salons – other services
  • 28. 28 Vibrant Downtown Metrics for Downtown! How do we quantify vibrant? • Retail Rents
  • 29. 29 Vibrant Downtown Metrics for Downtown! How do we quantify vibrant? • Retail rents > Office Rents • Retail rents = 4% to 12% (8%) gross sales • @8%, $4.00 rent = $600 per square foot
  • 30. 30 Vibrant Downtown Metrics for Downtown! Sales Tax Trends – Los Altos Downtown Core 100.00 80.00 60.00 PERCENT 40.00 Fourth Street Berkeley 20.00 Burlingame Los Gatos 0.00 Mountain View 20.00 Los Altos 40.00 The figures in this chart represent the 60.00 downtowns for each of the jurisdictions and are 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 not city-wide, i.e., the Downtown Los Altos YEAR Retail Core. Source: City Data adjusted to 1995 constant dollars by Andrea Eaton
  • 31. 31 Vibrant Downtown Metrics for Downtown! How do we define vibrant? • 100% Vibrant = $600 / sf annual sales • 1995 Avg. Los Altos = $300 / sf Annual sales • 2009 Avg. Los Altos = $180 /sf annual sales • Los Altos Retail/Restaurant = @8% = $1.20
  • 32. 32 Vibrant Downtown Metrics for Downtown! Retail Rents = $1.20 ÷ $4.00 = 30% Vibrant ―Our Businesses close, they almost never sell!‖
  • 33. 33 Vibrant Downtown Metrics for Downtown Where are you? • People – 25% • Economics – 30% Where do you want to go?
  • 34. 34 Vibrant Downtown 2008 Rezoning 20 year prediction • 34 parcels • 895,000 sq ft office • 495 residential units
  • 35. 35 Vibrant Downtown 2008 Rezoning 5 year results • 895,000 • 1,000 • 495 •2
  • 36. 36 Vibrant Downtown Last 5 years • 895,000 • 1,000 • 495 • 70 • 18 hotel rooms
  • 37. 37 Vibrant Downtown 3 parcels 14,305 sq ft No Parking capacity
  • 38. 38 Vibrant Downtown Metrics for Downtown! How vibrant do you want to be? • 2,200 today = 25% to 30% vibrancy • 50% to 60% = 2,200 • 75% to 90% =4,400 • 100% to 120% = 6,600 • 125% to 150% = 8,800
  • 39. 39 Vibrant Downtown How Vibrant do you want to be? • 100% • Add 4,400 people =2,000 Residential units =3,500,000 sq. ft. = 1,900,000 sq. ft. office
  • 40. 40 Vibrant Downtown Economics – the Dismal Science! Why don’t properties develop? • Prop 13 • Property owners have been here forever • Property owners comfortable—Don’t care No Compelling Economic Reason!
  • 41. 41 Vibrant Downtown Economics – the Dismal Science! Why will properties develop? • How to create the boiling point? • Market Conditions • Policy changes/city levers
  • 42. 42 Vibrant Downtown Where is the Development Boiling Point? • Develop a proforma for specific properties • Developed multiple proformas – testing the edge • The Economic Boiling Point for... • Developer • Property Owner
  • 43. 43 Vibrant Downtown The Economic Model Why will properties develop? • Policy changes/city levers? • Floor Area Ratio (FAR) • Height • Fees
  • 44. 44 Vibrant Downtown The Economic Model Why will properties develop? • Policy changes/city levers? • Use requirements (rents) • Parking  Requirements  In lieu Program/Fees
  • 45. 45 Vibrant Downtown The Economic Model Why will properties develop? • Ratio Redeveloped Value/Current Value = Development Pressure Index (DPI) Greater DPI = Greater Development opportunity
  • 46. 46 Vibrant Downtown Achieving the development boiling point! Additional outputs • School revenues • City revenues • Parking spaces required • People on the street • etc
  • 47. 47 Vibrant Downtown The Economic Model Why Will Property Develop? • Case Study #1 2001 • Office Rent $7.50 • Parking 4/1000 • No In Lieu program
  • 48. 48 Net New Development 3,000,000 2,500,000 Six Story Five Story Four Story 2,000,000 Three Story Square Feet Current 1,500,000 1,000,000 500,000 0 0 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 Years
  • 49. 49 Vibrant Downtown The Economic Model Why Will Property Develop? • Case Study #2 Current Situation • Office Rent $4.00 • Parking 3.3/1000 • No In Lieu Program
  • 50. 50 Net New Development 3,000,000 2,500,000 Six Story Five Story Four Story 2,000,000 Three Story Square Feet Current 1,500,000 1,000,000 500,000 0 0 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 Years
  • 51. 51 Vibrant Downtown The Economic Model Why Will Property Develop? • Case Study #3 • Office Rent $4.00 • Parking 2.2/1000* • $10,000 In Lieu Fee** *Based on 4 recent parking studies of 22 office buildings in Los Altos ** Based on Parking, Best Practices.
  • 52. 52 Net New Development 3,000,000 2,500,000 Six Story Five Story Four Story 2,000,000 Three Story Square Feet Current 1,500,000 1,000,000 500,000 0 0 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 Years
  • 53. 53 Daily Census 8000 7000 6000 Six Story Five Story People 5000 Four Story Three Story 4000 Current 3000 2000 0 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 Years
  • 54. 54 Vibrant Downtown Why Downtowns are important! Did you know? A Vibrant Downtown Could Contribute… • $3 Million Annually to MVLA • $3 Million Annually to LASD • $4 Million Annually to City $10 Million/yr incremental tax revenues!
  • 55. 55 Vibrant Downtown Should we zone for dollars? NO!
  • 56. 56 Vibrant Downtown We Should zone for… • Great streets • Distinctive Architecture • A sense of place
  • 57. 57 Vibrant Downtown Parking Requirements A Quick History • Nobody studied Parking! 1. Build More! 2. What are their requirements? 3. What does ITE recommend?
  • 58. 58 Vibrant Downtown Parking Requirements & Parking Management • Lead Poison • The first step – The seminal step to revitalizing downtown! • Without change – Look for continuing decline ▫ Economics ▫ Vibrancy ▫ As the Social Center/Place
  • 59. 59 Vibrant Downtown Parking Best Practices • Understand current requirements • Medium term growth requirement • Efficiencies in Parking lay-out • Efficiencies in Parking management
  • 60. 60 Vibrant Downtown Best Practices Los Altos • Establish a Parking Benefit District (PBD) • Create a parking In-lieu program • Adopt parking requirements based in reality • Identify future parking
  • 61. 61 Vibrant Downtown Los Altos Actual Average Demand! • Private Office – 1.6 per thousand! • Average Peak – 2.0 per thousand! • Grocery Retail – 2.4 per thousand!
  • 62. 62 Vibrant Downtown Parking Requirements • Mountain View • Palo Alto • Burlingame • 3000 Sand Hill Rd.
  • 63. 63 Vibrant Downtown Parking In-Lieu Program Benefits for Los Altos • Would open up development • Creates shared parking resources • Shared Resources lead to activity (vibrancy) on the street.
  • 64. 64 Vibrant Downtown • ―The Opinion of this mischievous Effect from Lead is at least above Sixty Years old; and you will observe with Concern how long a useful Truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally receiv’d and practis’d on‖ Benjamin Franklin
  • 66. 66 Vibrant Downtown Great Streets • Building to street Ratio • ½ to 1 • 1 to 1 Los Altos Buildings are 25% to 30%
  • 67. 67 Vibrant Downtown Greentown Los Altos
  • 74. 74 Livermore, CA: First Street Commissioned by Design, Community and Environment
  • 75. 75 Vibrant Downtown But I can’t see the mountains!
  • 76. 76 Vibrant Downtown But I can’t see the mountains!
  • 77. 77 Vibrant Downtown But I can’t see the mountains!
  • 79. 79 San Bruno, CA El Camino Real - San Mateo Avenue
  • 80. 80 San Bruno, CA El Camino Real - San Mateo Avenue
  • 81. 81 San Bruno, CA El Camino Real - San Mateo Avenue
  • 82. 82 San Bruno, CA El Camino Real - San Mateo Avenue
  • 84. 84 Vibrant Downtown We want a more vibrant Downtown! • Greater economic vitality = Taller buildings/more density • You must reach the Development Boiling Point! • Nostalgic feel low density = Diminished retail • Excessive Parking = Stunted downtown
  • 85. 85 Vibrant Downtown We want a more vibrant Downtown! The model • Informs Community • Informs Policy Makers • Identifies Alternatives/Tradeoffs A Powerful tool for a community based visioning process
  • 86. 86 Vibrant Downtown Los Altos Recent survey • 47% opposed • 43% supported • 3 stories or more • What if they knew?
  • 87. 87 Vibrant Downtown Why Downtowns are important! What is the vibrant downtown experience? ―What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people‖ Walkable Streets
  • 88. 88 Vibrant Downtown Greentown Los Altos