Civic Center Design Standards

Project Status

As of June 24, 2019, the City Council removed this item from the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Work Plan. 

Project Overview 

In 2014, the City Council tasked the Planning Department with establishing a set of Civic Center Design Standards as the first phase of a longer term goal of creating a Civic Center Specific Plan.

To complete the project, the City Council appointed a 10-member Civic Center Design Standards Task Force who worked with the City’s design team, MIG Consultants and John Kaliski Architects, to prepare a set of design standards to enhance the Civic Center area.

The project included a kick-off community event and task force meetings. See below for a list of meeting materials.

Following the court's overturning of Measure R, the City reopened discussions of regulations on chain stores and options for a Civic Center Specific Plan. On August 14, 2017, the City Council directed staff to schedule public hearing to consider a specific plan overlay district for the Civic Center; research alternative methods of regulating community character in commercial zone; and evaluate the Civic Center Guidelines that were prepared by the Civic Center Design Standards Task Force.

As of June 24, 2019, the City Council removed this item from the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Work Plan.

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