Comments on: Downtown Dublin Specific Plan Inches Closer to Reality

By: Ramon

Ramon — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I completely agree. Dublin needs to balance out what “Dublin” really is, the small close-nit community it is as well as the up-in-coming community. Dublin sorely lacks a presence of small locally owned businesses and a walk-able downtown that shows this off, like Pleasanton, Livermore, Danville have, but creating a newer downtown area such as Walnut Creek and Livermore have. Dublin just needs to make up it’s mind as to where it wants this at (Waterford/Ulferts area, Hacienda area, new West Dublin Bart area).

By: ChaterHS

ChaterHS — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Did I get the downtown plan right? Seems the only major part is the transit area, which is very uncertain right now.

The retail area and village parkway area seems only getting a facelift? That is far from enough to make Dublin downtown competitive.

It needs to some more dramatic changes. Like a walkable downtown with attractive dining/shopping choices (like Pleasanton or Danville), and high end high rise office or retail towers (like Walnut Creek).

I think we can have a 2 part downtown. Let’s make the current downtown plan to be an attractive, walkable, pedestrian friendly environment. To do this, we need to have more small boutique restaurants and shops, provide people a place to enjoy and relax.

The second part of downtown can be in Camp parks or the area adjacent to east bart Station. This area already has modern and shining office buildings and already host some well-known corporates like Sybase. Let’s make this area more like Walnut Creek. There are very few cities which has the luxury of such a large piece of prime vacant land, Dublin has to make this land worth its value and bring high paying jobs and prosperity to our residents of the new century.

By: ChaterHS

ChaterHS — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Broadband sounds a good idea. How much will it cost to the city? If we can get some good corporate sponsor like Google, it’ll be be much easier since our city has limited resource.

By: Jing Firmeza

Jing Firmeza — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I agree that the downtown Dublin plan will put our city at a better advantage to compete for commercial retail and office tenants. I have been a strong advocate of implementing a broadband network in our city. Exhibited by implementation done through some major cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore and other metro cities. FCC just announced a broader country wide plan this week. The same vision I saw 3 – 2 years ago. Broadband is revolutionizing the way of business life and will continue to dominate every one of us. Broadband is bringing to reality video conferencing, faster file retrieval for imaging (paperless environment) and a myriad of cannot do’s in the past. Working from home will be the future and we will see less commuting to work. Managers and supervisors can monitor their employees through video. Documents can be displayed at every employees home computer much quicker. Video conferencing between clients and companies will be much cleaner and crispier. Business decisions are made much quicker. The advantage to it all is the environment with less commuters. Lesser office footprint for companies resulting in less overhead. I stood in front of the council about broadband and presented the advantages of this technology a year ago. We need to be in the forefront of this technology and what more better start than the Downtown Dublin area.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I like the downtown Dublin plan. It will separate us from our neighboring cities as far as attracting businesses