Land Use and Urban Design Sample Clauses

Land Use and Urban Design. The Consultants will evaluate Land Use and Urban Form goals, policies, and programs, with a focus on creating a land use system that reflects current economic trends and facilitates development and investment in the community. The Consultants will ensure the General Plan reflects updated Airport Land Use Commission plans, the updated Planning and Development Code (SCC Title 17), as well as City priorities and expectations for annexations. The Consultants will refine policies and land use and urban form standards to address near-term development trends and building demands. The Consultants will recommend creating more flexibility in policies to allow for near-term, transitional uses that would not interfere with the long-term development of the community. The Consultants will review the potential to refine the land use and urban form designations by combining designations, lowering minimum floor area ratios, expanding allowed uses, and allowing new land uses (e.g., urban farming). The Consultants will refine policies to promote reinvestment and revitalization of neighborhoods, centers, and corridors, enhance community character, optimize City investments in infrastructure and community services, and support increased transit, bicycle, and pedestrian use. At the same time the Consultants will seek to ensure that redevelopment and any associated intensification of these areas is designed to limit impacts on adjacent residential areas.

Land Use and Urban Design. The proposed plan is not consistent with the City’s current land use policy because it is outside the urban limit line. It also conflicts with the County’s proposed policies for a community buffer area between Vacaville and Fairfield. Also, the proposed circulation system - an internal loop collector and new arterial street on the south side - is inefficient and may even encourage residential development to the south, eroding the greenbelt concept even more. Lastly, the professional office uses proposed for the southwestern corner bear no relation to the rest of the site and are inconsistent with General Plan policies calling for such uses to be integrated into commercial centers or the central business district.