Guest Opinion: Please reject Main Street retail mandate
Time to read: about 2 minutes The Pleasanton Planning Commission on Wednesday is set to consider a proposal by the city planning staff to require that the front 60% of all Main Street buildings be genuine retail. Peter MacDonald. The retail mandate just started recently with the newly adopted Downtown Specific Plan in 2018, which required that the front 25% of Main Street buildings be retail ("active ground-floor use" in planner talk, which includes restaurants). So, why not up the retail mandate to 60%? Main Street cannot support the kind and quantity of retail the planners are proposing to ...