Urban Planning
The City of Santa Cruz Downtown Recovery Plan, September 1991, amended through October 2009, contains guidance on the general need for public spaces downtown and a specific vision for the section of downtown west of Pacific Avenue. Click HERE for pertinent excerpts from the Downtown Recovery Plan.
The City of Santa Cruz Downtown Plan is the original Downtown Recovery Plan, September 1991, as amended through November 2017, when it was renamed (deleting the word "recovery") and the City Council adopted revisions to the plan with specific emphasis on Chapter 4, Development Standards and Design Guidelines with Ordinance 2017-23, extending Additional Height Zone A to Laurel Street and modifying Additional Height Zone B for Front Street riverfront properties.
The Local Leader’s Toolkit:
A Strong Towns Response to the Pandemic
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/19/the-local-leaders-toolkit-md2020
When the Public Realm is all you have
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2020/04/09/urbanists-keep-planning-through-crisis
Planning under crisis conditions
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2020/04/09/urbanists-keep-planning-through-crisis
The economy under crisis and city budgets. What does this portend for an $87 million parking garage [not counting any library or affordable housing as supposed parts of the plan]? Read all the way to the bottom to get to the part about cities. Let's have some common sense! https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/3/2/market-correction-time?
Building Strong Local Economies (without Cheesecake Factory)
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/3/30/building-strong-local-economies-without-cheesecake-factory?utm_campaign=040320+Friday+Jab+-+General+List&utm_medium=email&utm_source=autopilot
On the Park Bench: "Placemaking for social inclusion."
23 minute mark: discussion of public spaces and the homeless. The speaker, Elena Madison, works on planning plazas, for the Project for Public Spaces.
https://youtu.be/mwYs__o-wxc
CityLab: How to support mental health through urban planning.
https://www.citylab.com/design/2016/12/how-to-support-mental-health-through-urban-planning/510833/
The City of Santa Cruz Downtown Plan is the original Downtown Recovery Plan, September 1991, as amended through November 2017, when it was renamed (deleting the word "recovery") and the City Council adopted revisions to the plan with specific emphasis on Chapter 4, Development Standards and Design Guidelines with Ordinance 2017-23, extending Additional Height Zone A to Laurel Street and modifying Additional Height Zone B for Front Street riverfront properties.
The Local Leader’s Toolkit:
A Strong Towns Response to the Pandemic
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/19/the-local-leaders-toolkit-md2020
When the Public Realm is all you have
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2020/04/09/urbanists-keep-planning-through-crisis
Planning under crisis conditions
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2020/04/09/urbanists-keep-planning-through-crisis
The economy under crisis and city budgets. What does this portend for an $87 million parking garage [not counting any library or affordable housing as supposed parts of the plan]? Read all the way to the bottom to get to the part about cities. Let's have some common sense! https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/3/2/market-correction-time?
Building Strong Local Economies (without Cheesecake Factory)
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/3/30/building-strong-local-economies-without-cheesecake-factory?utm_campaign=040320+Friday+Jab+-+General+List&utm_medium=email&utm_source=autopilot
On the Park Bench: "Placemaking for social inclusion."
23 minute mark: discussion of public spaces and the homeless. The speaker, Elena Madison, works on planning plazas, for the Project for Public Spaces.
https://youtu.be/mwYs__o-wxc
CityLab: How to support mental health through urban planning.
https://www.citylab.com/design/2016/12/how-to-support-mental-health-through-urban-planning/510833/