Goals
(8 total)
- GOAL CD-1: Promote streetscapes that enhance the economic vitality and overall visual quality of the City, support the circulation network, and support pedestrian-scale streets and patterns of activity.
- GOAL CD-2: Express the City's distinct community identity and sense of place through improvements to the appearance of new development, commercial centers, urban villages, transit corridors and streetscapes.
- GOAL CD-3: Establish and reinforce district and neighborhood characteristics recognized both within the community and throughout the region.
- GOAL CD-4: Provide a well-designed, pedestrian-friendly, and community-oriented environment.
- GOAL CD-5: Ensure that the design and development of urban villages and transit corridors convey a positive image of the district they are located within.
- GOAL CD-6: Encourage contextually-appropriate infill development projects and property renovations.
- GOAL CD-7: Preserve historic and cultural resources.
- GOAL CD-8: Interconnect parks and natural features by establishing an integrated network of trails, parks and open spaces.
Stronger Policy Language (21 policies)
- Policy CD-21: Maintain a system of design review that applies more intense levels of review where the scope of the project has greater potential impacts to the community.
- Policy CD-25: Apply CPTED principles in the review process for development proposals.
- Policy CD-46: Require developers to provide and maintain publicly-accessible, privately-maintained open spaces that are proportionate to the scale and impact of the subject project in commercial zones.
Aspirational / Monitoring Language (29 policies)
- Policy CD-8: Discourage future extension of linear auto-oriented commercial development along rights-of-way in areas already developed.
- Policy CD-11: Encourage the incorporation of public art features with new development.
- Policy CD-19: Foster placemaking by reinforcing key design themes in building facades, public spaces, streetscapes and other built elements within the visual public realm.
- Policy CD-45: Provide incentives to create neighborhood parks, green spaces, and other public or private open spaces throughout the City, particularly within commercial areas, urban villages, and transit corridors.
- Policy CD-51: Encourage the use of native plantings throughout the City.