The Tripster strikes again:
"A majority of Area 4 is within a 10-minute walk radius to the new Warm Springs/South Fremont BART station located to the east of the site. Area 4 is not only a Transit-Oriented Development site, but is also a very accessible site via BART as it is bounded by circulation arterials such as South Grimmer Boulevard to the north, and Fremont Boulevard to the west that connects to Interstate 880 and Interstate 680. The Tesla Motors manufacturing facility is located directly south of the site"
https://fremont.gov/DocumentCenter/View/27214
According to that document, the "community developers" are taking AWAY Tesla factory land, not adding TO it. Perhaps that black parking lot is just in temporary use by Tesla, and they will develop other methods to park their cars. The BART parking lots in south bay (Berryessa, mostly) can replace the Tesla parking lots, and everyone can BART to work. Let's see if that works out: it might save some congestion between Berryessa on US-101 and Fremont. The fact that BART is dragging its feet (AS USUAL) is hurting the ability of anything right there to see fruition of any of those answers, obviously.
If push came to shove, the fields to the south could be parked in, and more people could carpool. I sense that a struggle between government and industrialists has been going on, with existing use being a right of use, saving space for possible expansion. I'm quite frankly amazed Tesla has been as successful as it has been so far avoiding problems like this, but thank god, property rights are a huge right in this country, so as long as they have that fantastic Fremont factory property, they have it relatively easy. This doesn't seem like that much of a squeeze.
OTOH, if that "BART community" plan has been abandoned and replaced with more factory, then by all means, let us know!
http://i.imgur.com/WzomZci.jpg
I guess I should have posted here, but I figured the information others had would have been superior. Yes, Tesla is building more at their Fremont factory site.
Apparently, I was entirely wrong? An L-shaped piece of old factory land that is partially currently used for production from said factory is in parallel being developed for an incompatible use (?!). OK then. It's just one of those things: (my) assumptions are built from fairly sensible things, until illogical activists get involved, then they end up biting me and us in the ass (grr). BART has unfortunately been one of those systems that has been over-hyped as being way better than it actually is, and while I understand the motivation of environmentalists to try to colocate people to the train stations, think of the life that would entail: pretty boxed in: you can only stay at home, walk to a train station, and go to places that train station goes to, which will also be boxed in places. I hope they have a lot of Uber, Lyft, and shared cars involved.
In 10 to 20 years, this site will be a gemsite, with Tesla Uber-like self driving cars, and everything. But for now, ??????
BTW, I like many activists, but not all of them, because they share a common flaw: they get hyped up, and it's easy to get gullible activists hyped up about incorrect things. BART might have seemed like a good idea at the time it was invented (right before my birth) to many people, but it has been kind of a sledge hammer used to ruin many other things since then.
Grrrrr .... on page 26, they are using more crappy ass deciduous trees. We need more huge evergreen Redwood trees or better, not those cheap ass east coast trees. I sometimes hate central planners with a passion that oozes hate everywhere, and I thoroughly apologize.
On page 48, we are in stage 1, Backbone Improvements, which would be consistent with the ground activity on the site. It could be that Tesla has worked a deal with them to move forward with the plan expeditiously, so that Tesla could benefit from the plan as much as possible. For instance, a home setting would be a nice kind of shopping experience for those wishing to visit a Tesla Store or Delivery Center, or even to some degree a Service Center. (However, I thought they were moving some of those sites further south.) Tesla might even try to become one of the site developers, building fully solar powered housing.
On Page 62, I take back my thoughts again, because it lists the Project Team:
Lennar "The Home of Everything's Included"
ktgy
Gates + Associates "Landscape, Architecture, Land Planning, Urban Design"
BkF "Engineers / Surveyors / Planners"
From page 4: "In 2013 Lennar began conversations with the City of Fremont to develop Area 4 of the Warm Springs/South Fremont Community Plan (WS/ SFCP)." "This Area 4 Master Plan document serves as Lennar’s Master Plan application to the City of Fremont. It establishes the development framework to guide future growth within the Area 4 of the WS/SFCP." The application was approved by Fremont City Counti March 17, 2015. I fired off an email to Lennar asking for further info (I usually don't have a great track record at receiving much, but whatever I receive, I'll post here immediately). From WikiPedia, Lennar is Floridian, so that explains the deciduous trees that don't grow tall. But, Lennar is apparently HUGE, so possibly, they have enough regional people to understand native trees.
