The Del Mar City Council introduced a set of objective design standards Aug. 26 that the city can apply to any new development that, based on new state laws, would not have to go through the typical ...

Senior Associate Tony Perez of Berkeley-based Opticos Design Inc., which was hired to prepare the standards, says creating objective design standards for Santa Barbara was easy because of all the ...

For decades, Santa Barbara’s notoriously nitpicky review boards have made navigating the city’s design approval process a gauntlet for potential developers. The subjective “discretionary review” — ...

Napa’s planning commission is beginning to develop objective design standards, a set of building requirements municipalities need to use to approve residential development projects that are supposed ...

San Mateo is expanding its review scope of objective design and development standards for all housing projects as it considers new standards for the whole city, with the City Council approving a ...

Objective design standards were the main topic of debate for the Davis Planning Commission on Wednesday night. On Jan. 10, the Planning Commission held the first public hearing regarding the proposed ...

On Tuesday, the Davis City Council unanimously approved citywide Objective Design Standards for qualifying mixed-use and multi-family housing developments with Vice Mayor Bapu Vaitla participating in ...

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