San José High Speed Rail

San José and California High-Speed Rail Authority Town Hall Community Meeting

Attend a community town hall meeting hosted by the City of San José and the California High-Speed Train Project, San Jose to Merced Section team to learn more about the proposed high-speed train plans for San José, development of visual design guidelines for the proposed aerial alignment, and findings from the evaluation of a modified tunnel option. A panel of representatives from the City of San José and the California High-Speed Rail Authority will be on hand to answer your questions about the project.

Thursday, December 8, 2011
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
San José City Hall, 200 East Santa Clara Street
West Wing Community Rooms (W-118/119)
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Visual Design Guidelines Document Version 5 September 2011

The California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) and the City of San José (City) initiated a collaborative public out-reach process to develop th San José Visual Design Guidelines for California High-Speed Train Infrastructure (Guidelines).

The purposes of the Guidelines are to

• Provide aesthetic design guidance to refine engineering and address visual impacts of High-Speed Train (HST) aerial and at grade infrastructure through the City of San José
• Use an open, collaborative process between the CHSRA, City, and community of San José to reach a consensus on design preferences that are also technically and economically feasible given the CHSRA’s     engineering, operations and funding constraints.
• Provide design guidance for the next steps of project delivery.
• Create rendered visualizations of HST infrastructure design solutions.
• Inform the environmental analysis in the Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) for the San José to Merced section.
• Identify visual design guidance for HST infrastructure that is applicable statewide.
• Produce a document that serves and informs both the general public and technical audiences

Design of the Diridon Station and the Diridon Station Area Plan are separate studies from the Guidelines.

This in-progress Guidelines document is the first version to bring text and graphics together in a coherent package for CHSRA, City and community review in any segment of the California High Speed Rail Project
Click the link below to view the documents. 

• Visual Design Guidelines San Jose
  
• Roles and Responsibilities