Oxnard Draft Downtown Code & Architectural Guidelines

ByRoy Prince July 14, 2019July 14, 2019

Oxnard recently released the Draft of the new Downtown Code & Architectural Guidelines.
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ROBUST GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT MANDATING PARKING
ByRoy September 3, 2017September 17, 2017

ROBUST GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT MANDATING PARKING What happens when you get rid of minimum parking requirements in a downtown district while also adding 4,500 people to the downtown? Many would suggest that adding so many people in a short time while removing parking minimums would be bad for businesses because parking spaces would be…

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Tenement Housing for H Street?
ByRoy October 3, 2017

A lousy project has been proposed for North H Street between 1st and 2nd street. 8 barracks like boxes each containing 5 bedrooms with 5 attached bathrooms. How many people do you think will be living in each box? I submit that number will vary between 10 and 20 or more per property – and…

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Affordable Housing | Downtown | Economic Development | Housing | Planning

YES, YOU CAN BUILD YOUR WAY TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING
ByRoy September 29, 2017September 29, 2017

Lessons from unexpected places. Author: Alan Durning September 21, 2017 “You can’t build your way out of a housing affordability problem.” That’s conventional wisdom. I hear it all the time: Prosperous, growing, tech-rich cities from Seattle to the Bay Area and from Austin to Boston are all gripped by soaring rents and home prices. But what…

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Decision Makers | Downtown | Economic Development | Economy | Housing | Human Scale | Incremental | Lean Urbanism | Missing Middle | Parking | Placemaking | Planning | Policy | Public Policy | Revitalize Downtown | Walkability

What Does It Mean To Build A Vibrant Community?
ByRoy July 16, 2018

JULY 12, 2018 BY STRONG TOWNS “Our country was built on place, built on neighbors, built on people helping each other… I think people are yearning for that again and that’s what a downtown does.”— Quint Studer Quint Studer is the founder of the Studer Community Institute, a nonprofit organization in Pensacola, FL focused on improving…

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Ciudad Cayalá & Herencia de Allende
ByRoy Prince September 5, 2020November 14, 2020

“The Art of Making Places: A Panel Discussion on Ciudad Cayalá & Herencia de Allende with Leon Krier, María Sánchez, and Pedro Godoy On May 19th, 2020, the ICAA presented this special panel discussion only to ICAA Members. The recording has now been made available here for the enjoyment of the general public. If you…

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Comeback planned for commercial corridor
ByRoy March 26, 2018March 26, 2018

It’s time for the City of Oxnard to begin to think about how to fix Oxnard Boulevard and Saviers Road. While Oxnard’s main streets have been a state highway for years, now our main streets are waiting to become walkable places that generate economic development for Oxnard. The following article is an example of how…

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