Goals
(5 total)
- CD-A: Community Identity and Sense of Place – Express community identity through improvements to appearance, function, and design of new development and public realm
- CD-B: Streets as Places – Promote streetscapes that enhance economic vitality, visual quality, and support pedestrian-scale activity
- CD-C: Site and Building Design – Provide a built environment of well-designed, pedestrian-friendly and community-oriented sites and buildings
- CD-D: Natural Features and Open Space – Integrate and emphasize natural features and open space in community design and new development
- CD-E: Historic and Cultural Resources – Preserve Bellingham's heritage and diverse identities through preservation of historic buildings, sites, and cultural resources
Stronger Policy Language (19 policies)
- CD-15: Install, protect and maintain curbside street trees in the public right-of-way.
- CD-16: Require new and retrofitted sidewalks to be set back from the curb and designed to include curbside street trees.
- CD-37: Require the installation and maintenance of adequate landscaping throughout the city and in development projects, prohibiting invasive plant species.
- CD-19: Establish and maintain a predictable, clear and objective set of design standards and review processes for development.
Aspirational / Monitoring Language (26 policies)
- CD-10: Foster placemaking by supporting unique design themes in building facades, public spaces, streetscapes and other built elements within the visual public realm.
- CD-11: Encourage the incorporation of creativity, culture and public art features with new and existing development.
- CD-33: Identify and strive to preserve scenic vistas of important natural features from public spaces such as the Cascade Mountains, Lake Whatcom, Bellingham Bay.
- CD-41: Promote the many benefits of historic preservation beyond the aesthetic and expand historic preservation to embrace tangible and intangible cultural heritage.