California Code, Public Utilities Code - PUC § 29010.1

(1) “BART TOD place type” means the place type described in Table 1 and Figure 1 of the BART Transit-Oriented Development Guidelines (2017), as updated by the district.

(2) “Eligible TOD project” means a TOD project that meets all of the following requirements:

(3) “Floor area ratio” means the ratio of gross building area of the development, excluding structured parking areas, proposed for the project, divided by the total area of the parcel or parcels used by the project, where “gross building area” means the sum of all finished areas of all floors of a building included within the outside faces of its exterior walls.

(4) “Local jurisdiction” means a city, including a charter city, a county, or a city and county.

(5) “Planned district station” means a station that has completed the California Environmental Quality Act review and for which construction is more than 75 percent funded.

(6) “Station entrance” means the entry point into an enclosed station structure, or, where that point is not clear or does not exist, the station fare gates.

(7) “TOD” means transit-oriented development.

(8) “TOD project” means any residential or commercial development project, comprised of one or more buildings, wholly or partially on district land with 50 percent of the floor area of the project dedicated to residential uses, unless a locally adopted specific plan provides for a different percentage, or other metric, of residential uses on district-owned parcels.  If a locally adopted specific plan establishes a lower minimum residential use requirement for district-owned land, the specific plan metric shall serve as the minimum residential requirement.

(9) “TOD project area” means the parcel or parcels of land on which a TOD project is situated.