PLANNING CODES ISSUE Vol 16 | Issue 02 American Planning Association APA CALIFORNIA NEWS California Chapter From the APA California President P 3 Making Great Communities Happen LA Planning Gets a New Director P 6 Archiving the History of California P 6 California Chapter’s - CPAT Program P 9 California’s Newset AICP Fellows P 10 California Legislative Update P 13 In Memoriam P 17 Planning Services Directory P 19 APA California Leadership P 20 APA California Conference Information P 22 NEXT ISSUE PLANNER Planning in Los Angeles Submissions due June 1, see P3 for details IPlaFnninOg NewRs & NUpdatIesA from APA California Rendering for Hercules Lower Bay Front. Source: Opticos Design MARC YEBER | VP-Public Information CPERSPECTAIVE | GABRL IEL BARRERAS AND MARC YEBER, ASLA Regulating Land Use... and Community Form Creating Places, Not Projects Depending on your perspective or stake Let’s admit it...the land-use policy discussion can be a prickly topic to say the least. It in the planning debate, zoning can either is generally laden with verbiage that requires skilled deciphering and cross-referencing one's boon or bane. This issue on codes multiple levels of code, overlay zones, supplemental regulatory plans and design takes no position on the topic, but rather guidelines. In addition to development standards and guidance, these policies serve as highlights a few projects & perspectives on safeguards from legal challenges. This should not surprise anyone when you consider this regulatory tool used in nearly every that the first zoning code in 1916 was written by an attorney in Manhattan, New York, planning endeavor. The prevailing code where it remained an active ordinance until 1961. Despite the gradual integration and throughout the U.S. remains Euclidian zoning evolution of land use policies, zoning codes and regulatory tools over time, built with Form-based code making significant developments are often site or parcel-specific. This outcome leaves efforts to create inroads into the way planners shape our meaningful and interconnected places – that ultimately define a community – largely communities. Even though there are other marginalized. types of zoning, performance- or incentive- base to name a few, the articles to follow Use-Based vs. Form-Based Codes developers with a simple list of clear details focus on the juxtaposition of use- and form- The codes in wide use today became that potentially offer greater flexibility in base codes or some variation. This along formally known as the Euclidean zoning in 1926. design; however, the absence of standards for with Chapter, Section and National updates, Established by the Village of Euclid v. Ambler architectural details and larger urban forms has the potential to lead to ad-hoc, project-by- announcements and much more await your Realty Co. , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that municipalities have the right to prescribe and project developments that are often limited in review. Thank you to all who contributed to restrict land uses in order to fulfill a com- their ability to create consistent urban this issue. munity’s intended vision, balancing property patterns, building forms, and most importantly, I am also taking this opportunity to rights with public welfare. While Euclidean meaningful places. In response, form-based express my gratitude to Gabriel Barrerras zoning has evolved into one of the most codes have gained greater traction over the who will be stepping down as Assistant Editor entrusted regulatory tools in planning today, past three decades as they minimize the role of for the CalPlanner in order to focus on new these use-based codes are often framed by land use and instead focus on the value of responsibilities associated with fatherhood – broad and publically-perceived abstract creating a predictable public realm and con- CONGRATULATIONS!!! Gabriel not only concepts such as density, FAR, and lot coverage, sistent urban forms. In addition, form-based helped to develop story topics, identify all of which are largely devoid of specifics on codes broaden the discussion to consider how potential contributors, and refine article architectural design and urban form. By development beyond a single parcel or project site can be coordinated to create a unified built submissions, he wrote on a numerous topics. primarily focusing on these thresholds, Euclidean zoning provides architects and environment consisting of streetscapes, public He brought talent, insight, and enthusiasm to P7 the position. As such, today's CalPlanner has A form-based code model not only addresses development, but also the his DNA embedded in its overall tone and readability and for this reason the California ” relationship of that development to the broader context of a community Chapter is grateful for his service. and it’s public realm . As usual, your comments are welcome ” Coding by Area Pasadena's "City Two Decades of Great Places in by contacting me at INSIDE... P2 in the P4 of Gardens" P5 Vision-Based P16 California [email protected] . Sacramento Ordinance Codes Happy Reading, MY Region PLANNING CODES

nature of the unincorporated area, the County has long relied on Special Planning Areas (SPA’s) – 53 in total – to address the uniqueness of commercial corridors, greenfield areas, and key infill sites. The use of SPA’s enables the County to apply form-based and mixed use principles to these areas where traditional zoning doesn’t work. Like the City of Sacramento, the County found that the new development code conflicts with some SPA’s and has indentified the need to update them, especially to standardize allowed uses. One of the distinguishing features of the development code is three new mixed use zones – mixed- use centers, community-regional mixed-use centers, and corridor mixed-use zones – that hopefully will reduce the reliance on SPA’s in Form-based Specific Plan, Rancho Cordova, CA the future. Leighann Moffitt, AICP, Planning FEATURE | Tricia Stevens, AICP Director for Sacramento County commented, “the County is proud of its accomplishments to address the needs of our aging commercial Coding by Area: Evolving Approaches to Custom corridors and we are constantly looking for Zoning Codes in the Sacramento Region new and creative opportunities and tools to revitalize these areas.” Specific and flexible codes addressing challenges to special areas – whether it be commercial One such example is the Fair Oaks corridors, transitional infill sites, downtowns, or greenfield sites – are common in most Boulevard Corridor Plan. This plan is a communities. Customized area-specific codes in the Sacramento area are evolving from the community-based effort to establish a “Main City of Sacramento and Sacramento County to the cities of Elk Grove, Rancho Cordova, and Street” in an aging suburb. It sets the stage for Roseville. This article explores best practices in these communities and the various tools to grant funding for extensive “complete street” implement flexible area zoning. How do area-specific codes interface with the city-wide zoning improvements that are now under construc- codes? Are they form-based in nature or contain more traditional Euclidean zoning features? tion. However, businesses and property Area-specific codes ( let's call them AC’s ) they simultaneously amended some of the owners fought portions of the Plan arguing enable a jurisdiction to create the vision for older special districts, according to Jim that a “Special Planning Area” designation urban form with specific development McDonald, AICP, Principal Planner for the City would actually hurt efforts to upgrade and standards. Successful AC’s implement the of Sacramento. Moving forward, the City has redevelop commercial properties. They feared vision and incentivize desired development to indicated that it intends to rely on design that banks would not loan on properties with create unique places that would not have districts for special area needs. These design a label of “special zoning” attached to it. In otherwise been possible under traditional districts would provide the framework for response, the a portion of the Corridor Plan zoning. AC’s such as Special Planning urban form and guidance on project review was adopted as more of an “opportunity plan” Districts/Areas, Specific Plans, Overlay while still applying the basic underlying zoning where properties owners may use traditional Districts, and Design Districts are used to for allowed uses and development standards. zoning, or they could “opt in” to a mixed use successfully think outside of the Euclidean box. Further the City adopted an innovative form and receive regulatory and review But let’s face it, there are some downsides. AC’s can be complicated for community The City of Rancho Cordova uses Specific Plans and Special Planning Areas

2 members, businesses, and public counter staff 0

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u a day-to-day basis to get an answer to a simple s approach to parking codes. They created process relief from traditio”nal zoning. s

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The City of Sacramento (population urban, traditional neighborhoods, and 159,074 ) recently adopted its Southeast Policy 6

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l 2013 that comprehensively updated develop- those form types. For example, all urban areas acre greenfield development oriented around o

V ment regulations city-wide. While a cadre of have a commercial retail parking ratio of one employment-generating land uses. The policy

r Specific Plans, Special Planning Districts and space per 2,000 sq ft of floor area while the document included a SPA to implement the

e Overlay Zones framed much of the existing suburban ratio is one space per 400 sq ft. This land plan and policies through a creative form- n

n zoning, the City found that the development is an example of context specific parking based zoning that covers not only land uses, a l code rendered many of the special districts standards that recognize urban form and the setbacks, and height limits, but also entry P

L outdated and in conflict with the new city- associated mode split. details, design guidelines, and street standards.

A wide code. For example, the new city-wide The County of Sacramento (population The SPA will be augmented with an Architec-

C C-2 Zoning District allows greater urban 564,657 ) adopted a comprehensive develop- tural Style Guide and a Landscape Planning intensities than some of the special districts, so ment code in 2015. Because of the diverse Protocol Manual to round out the standards. P8 P2 CHAPTER NEWS

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strategy has also come to serve as an important heritage conservation catalyst throughout the city. The code’s gaps have also become evident over the two decades of its implementation. As it currently stands, the code is silent about transitional sites like a corner lot at the intersection of an arterial (or corridor) and a neighborhood street. For example, the code limits building facades to 60 feet in length, requiring a minimum building separation of 15 feet between adjacent buildings. While this idea ensures smaller building increments in single-family neighbor- hoods, they are not desirable on corridors where a more robust and continuous building façade would La Casa Torre. Source: Bharnes be a better fit. FEATURE | Vinayak Bharne This gap also extends to the manner in which The following was originally published by Planetizen in 2015. Permission for reprint was granted by the author. zones are currently designated in the city. For example, a transitional site at Oakland Avenue & Cordova Street consisted of a major east-west Re-Evaluating Pasadena’s City of arterial and a north-south neighborhood street where the zoning designation was different on Gardens Ordinance either side of the arterial. Lots to the south side fell In February 1989, the city of Pasadena adopted the City of Gardens (CoG)Ordinance, under the standards of the CoG Ordinance. Lots to a set of zoning regulations introducing courtyard housing as the sole multi-family type the north side fell under the standards of the in transitional single-family neighborhoods. The ordinance was an antidote to nihilistic Central District zone, with entirely different building residential development attitudes in parts of the city (beyond the Central District and heights and setback requirements. The idea of major commercial corridors), where units were packed into lots without any separating zones at the center of a street is a significant open space and were obstructed by opaque street walls or parking- fundamental problem – a recipe for formal dominated frontages. The intent of the ordinance was to allow denser development incompatibility on either side of a street. Corner within such transitional areas, but in a form sensitive and compatible to their largely lots and the first layer of lots facing a major avenue single-family neighbors. or corridor should be exceptions to a neighbor- Today, the CoG Ordinance is part of single-family-house neighbors. This is in vivid hood-friendly code such as the CoG Ordinance; the Pasadena’s Residential Multi-family District contrast to the variety of floor area ratio-based formal development of such lots should be guided General Development Standards, and for more conventional apartment buildings that disrupted differently and on their own terms. than two decades, this early form-based code several Pasadena neighborhoods prior to 1989, The code works effectively on mid-block lots has guided the production of dozens of with units extruded relentlessly in the form of a greater than 60 feet in width. To the code’s credit, courtyard housing projects in the city. The CoG monolithic box. The CoG standards have thus lots less than 60 feet wide do not require the standards are framed around a number of successfully mediated the residential densities garden to be visible from the sidewalk, thereby fundamental ideas: of the single-family house and the stacked flat allowing a larger building face and street frontage. apartment building through a more humane As lots widths decrease further, the design review 1.) A multi-family project is required to have a urban form. process allows flexibility for alternative shapes in clearly defined garden rectangle, enclosed by Simultaneously, the code has revived a the main garden or the creation of separate, a building for at least 50 percent of its traditional regional dwelling type that remained ancillary gardens that, in aggregate, meet the main perimeter. marginalized for over half a century. Courtyard garden requirement. In other words, the code 2.) The size of this rectangle is calculated as a housing emerged in the Southern California recognizes the challenges of designing courtyard percentage of the lot area in a specified per region at the turn of the 20th century, in housing on narrow lots as compared to large lots. density zone. response to its benign climate among other That said, lots with widths of 45 feet or less make the design of a building with the minimum 3.) The garden has to be visible from the street factors. The traditional East Coast row-house 2 type, arranged along streets in a linear form, required garden area very difficult. Typically a 0 (for lots greater than 60 feet in width). modest residential project on a 45-feet-wide lot is

e was rearranged to orient individual dwellings

u 4.) Each project is also required to have economically viable with on-grade parking. With the

s around common courtyards. Access to units

s additional open space beyond the garden in I occurred directly through this courtyard, giving garden rectangle taking up the required 19 percent

• the form of setbacks and common areas, also of the lot area, on-grade parking within the lot is

each dwelling a garden in front and private

6 as a specified percentage of the lot size. patios in the rear. As density increased, the type often impossible. In exceptional cases, when lots 1

l Building heights vary depending on their took on numerous permutations through are around 200 feet deep, surface parking can in fact o be accommodated at the rear of the lot, but since

V location within the city. The code thus centers various attached and stacking patterns, always

on the design of a common courtyard toward a around single or multiple courtyards, and the most blocks in Pasadena do not have alleys, access r to this parking comes from the street. The building, e larger theme of Pasadena as a "city of gardens." design of the space between the dwellings was n Multi-family, market-rate housing built as important as that of the building envelope. now sandwiched between a minimum 10-foot n

a driveway on one side and a minimum 20 feet wide

l under the CoG standards has generally exemp- The CoG standards have thus provoked a

P lified a context-sensitive attitude. Units significant rethinking of housing design – from courtyard on the other, is squeezed into linear L organized around the central courtyard have the normative trend of extruding units, to a residential arms as narrow as 15 feet or less, forcing A higher massing in the lot interior, with one and careful synergy of open space and architectural an air-tight design, with no space for landscape C two story house-scale masses facing the street, form. Furthermore, through this revival of a buffers between the building and driveway or the ensuring formal compatibility with their largely traditional architectural and urban pattern, this P11 P4 PLANNING CODES

FIRM SPOTLIGHT | David Sargent, AIA, CNU

Two Decades of Innovation in Lot organization and massing illustration. Vision-Based Development Codes Source: Sargent Town Planning Sargent Town Planning (STP) is an APA award-winning urban planning and design consulting architectural patterns that are to be preserved. firm focused on making sustainable, pedestrian- and transit-oriented neighborhoods, Infill codes applied to mixed contexts with a districts, corridors, towns and cities. The firm works with public and private clients variety of existing development typologies, on the throughout California and around the country, preparing plans, codes and guidelines for other hand, tend to benefit from a simpler code downtown revitalization, walkable neighborhoods, transit-oriented development, design that focus on basic building massing, frontage based frameworks for general plans, and 21st century technology and medical districts. design and public realm design. These afford As a practicing architect and design include form-based development coding in designers more flexibility in responding to market review committee member through the their zoning regulations. trends, while still controlling the scale and 1980’s, David Sargent observed that project While many East Coast practitioners character of infill development. In such level design review is no substitute for zoning focused on developing the SmartCode – a situations, STP generally recommends moving standards that reflect the community’s vision, standardized format for transect-based many important details from the standards into and that public concerns about new development codes originally developed by parallel design guidelines. And for contexts in development are more often related to site DPZ & Partners – STP and West Coast which little change is envisioned for the planning planning and building placement than to colleagues were developing comparable codes horizon, they find that well calibrated architecture. In 1995 he founded STP to focus but with a greater emphasis on building conventional zoning – in tandem with design his practice on neighborhood and districts typologies. Through two decades preparing guidelines and design review – can provide scale urban design and coding, which lead to such codes, STP has found that the emphasis sufficient of guidance without the added the preparation of the first adopted by on building typology can be a strength or a specificity of form-based coding techniques. California municipalities, including Oxnard weakness, depending on the context. Building In an early successful example of form-based (1995), Ventura (1996), Hercules (2000) types have proven most helpful mainly in two coding, the City of Hercules in 2000 adopted a Petaluma (2003) and many more since. He situations: codes for new development areas, very detailed plan and code for their Waterfront was the principal author and editor of OPR’s where a master developer or municipality District, which Sargent prepared for a master 1994 White Paper on Smart Growth in California , wants to ensure that builders deliver new developer who had a very specific vision for new which proved instrumental in the passage of neighborhoods of predictable character and neighborhoods and a new town center on a AB 1268, a State Assembly bill explicitly quality; and infill development codes for bayfront brownfield site. The community warmly enabling local California governments to communities with very clear urban and embraced that vision, and the code included not only street and building standards but architec- STP’s goal is to always strike an appropriate balance between tural style standards as well. Two neighborhoods ” flexibility and certainty, between private interests and the public were built between 2003 and 2006, and their residents are now the principal advocates for the good, between the ideal and the practical. district’s completion. The high level of detail in Railroad Avenue, H”ercules, CA. Source: Sargent Town Planning that code enabled the City and the master developer to ensure that the merchant builders delivered the neighborhoods the community had been promised. 2 0

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ASHLEY ATKINSON | Los Angeles Section Director Mayor Eric Garcetti Taps APA California Leader to Plan LA’s Future The City of Los Angeles welcomed long- Bertoni is charged with maintaining and for Policy and time APA leader Vince Bertoni as its new executing the City’s General Plan, which shapes Legislation from 2003 Director of City Planning in February. Over the built environment for its nearly four million to 2005, and as the course of nearly three decades in residents. Beyond the city’s boundaries, LA Director of the Los professional planning in Southern California, serves as a regional leader for planning best Angeles Section from Bertoni has led both APA’s California Chapter practices, often pioneering new policies and 2001 to 2002. He has been active on statewide and its Los Angeles Section, in addition to co- initiatives. legislation, having served on the State of chairing the 2012 National Planning Con- Bertoni expects his APA experience to California’s Housing Element Working Group ference in downtown LA. help him navigate the complexities of Califor- from 2003 to 2004. He has been a member of Bertoni credits APA with a key role in nia’s largest jurisdiction. “It has enhanced my the American Institute of Certified Planners guiding him to this point in his career. “I would leadership and management skills, as well as since 1998 and the California Planning not be the planner that I am today without given me valuable insight into how other Roundtable since 2008. APA,” he said. “It is such an integral part of my agencies resolve complex and sometimes On Monday, March 21, Bertoni joined professional career that it is difficult to unusual planning issues,” he said. APA Los Angeles members and guests to separate out what knowledge I have gained Bertoni’s impressive career also includes share his vision for planning and discuss the through my jobs, compared to what I have service as Director of Planning and Community work ahead for his department in an intimate learned through APA.” Development for the City of Pasadena and conversation with Josh Stephens, Contributing Bertoni, a former Deputy Planning Planning Director for the cities of Beverly Hills, Editor to The California Planning & Development Director for the City of Los Angeles, returns to Santa Clarita, and Malibu. Report . For more information, visit LA to guide the department through a time of Bertoni served as president of APA www.apalosangeles.org . change and opportunity. In his new position, California from 2007 to 2008, as Vice President AA

J. LAURENCE MINTIER, FAICP | Chapter Historian, Northern STEVEN A. PRESTON, FAICP | Chapter Historian, Southern CSUN Archives Set the State for the Story of California Planning How would you tell the history of the rebuilt with the assistance of a FEMA grant What’s in There? amazing planning profession? How would you following the 1994 Northridge earthquake. By 2004, the APA California Archives assess the incredible progress that California This state of the art facility – featuring robotic included more than 155 boxes (77.5 linear planning has made since the first California document retrieval – was able to house the feet), 17 oversize boxes, and 125 maps from conference on City Planning occurred in 1914? Chapter’s expanding collection. 1933 to 2004. Significant donations since then Planners tend to be better at future have included the personal collection of Betty thinking than at documenting their past. But Money Needed... Planners Come to the Croly, bequeathed to the Chapter on her since 1988, California Chapter APA members Rescue passing in 2010. Her records included an can be proud of the fact that this organization But before the facility could be populated, additional 18 boxes of archival materials is one of the only chapters in APA to maintain funding was required. Inspired to raise funds in including planning reports from throughout a permanent archive documenting the growth, a spur-of-the moment decision, former California spanning more than 60 years. On development and evolution of the planning Chapter president Steve Preston and Wein average three to five new boxes of material profession in California. raised $3,875 from an informal appeal at the are delivered to the archives every year. Hosted at California State University Chapter’s 50th Anniversary beach party, held at Contributors to the archives have Northridge, the California Chapter APA Sand Creek beach on a twilight evening during included leading planners representing more

2 Archives – part of the Oviatt Library’s Urban the 1998 conference in Costa Mesa. The than seven decades of planning achievement, 0 Archives – is one of only a few major Chapter Board then donated a $5,000 match, including Nadya Andrews, Melville Branch, e and the remaining funds were raised to create u repositories of California’s planning history, Douglas Duncan, William H. Fraley, Sande s a $10,000 initial contribution. The first s sharing the stage with programs at the George and Tom Stefan, Yvonne Koshland, I

donation was $10 from the late Earl Fraser of

• Huntington Library and UC Berkeley. Norman Lind, Stan Ott, Janet Ruggiero, Frank

Sacramento. In later years, the Chapter Board

6 Wein and Steven A. Preston. As we write this

1 The Search for History’s Home designated both a maintenance fee for the

column, the Chapter is implementing new l In 1988, the late Betty Croly, FAICP was archives and an annual stipend for the work of

o plans to help promote and fund the archives

V appointed California’s first Chapter Historian, the Historian.

over the next several years with long-term

one of only a few in the country. An agreement was reached with CSUN

r goals of making the archives more accessible

e Seeking to establish a permanent and signed in 1988 by then Chapter President to researchers and interested historians. n collection documenting our collective history, John Bridges, FAICP. To date there have been

n We urge city, county and consulting

a Croly surveyed all University and College more than 2000 documents sent to the

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P libraries in the State to find archive space for archives including APA California minutes, appropriate for the collection. For more L the growing planning document collection, but reports from many California cities, counties information about the archives or how you A to no avail. With the help of the late Frank and consultants. Each year the CSUN oversees can donate, contact Chapter Historians Steve C Wein, California State University Northridge an ongoing program which includes document Preston and Larry Mintier at spreston@sgch. (CSUN) offered space in its Oviatt Library, preservation and cataloging. org , or [email protected] . JM, SP P6 PLANNING CODES

P1 Creating Places, Not Projects frontages, block sizes, public open space and Integrating Form in the numerous other land uses. Public Development Another shortcoming of conventional Process zoning is its inability to quickly change or adapt In general, the applica- a site’s permitted use when shifting socio- tion of conventional zoning economics and market forces continue to be in and development is applied flux. The intentions of a policy document with a in a fairly linear process. 25-year window rely heavily on a regulatory tool Also various professions that is designed to provide established rules and involved in the process have assurances in spite of future changes. As a a tendency to be siloed result, we planners can find ourselves spending where such regulatory tools more time and public resources reconciling are applied in isolation often projects that are viewed as incompatible with resulting in regulatory designated land uses through months (or even conflicts. Form-based codes, years) of rezoning, development agreements and on the other hand, are variances. grounded in an all-inclusive Lastly, use-based codes result in a built design process that environment that can significantly stray from the integrates the public with community vision, despite being in compliance planning, design and with the established zoning. Herein lies the real development professions rub for the community. Through the compre- from day one. During this hensive planning process, the community has time, community members staked out their future via policy goals and a are not only educated on defined vision. The very nature of this exercise various urban forms, but they are entrusted Goal vs. Outcome. Source: Urban Advantage & Planetizen is to create a place that is steeped in meaning with a new language of design and and experiential suggestions. Conventional architectural elements that allow them to to closing the gap between what was envisioned planning applies use-based codes to help achieve engage in tangible conversations with planners, and actual development outcomes. In fact, there such a vision, which are suppose to regulate the architects, engineers and development profes- is reasonable argument and criticism against its scope of a project on a particular site. Yet even sionals. Furthermore, form-based codes allow underlying tenets, especially if applied in an though the zoning has been applied correctly, a city to take a more proactive role in the final exacting manner, to give one pause in considering the outcome can be rather different from what design and form of the city such principles. Rather the form-based code was expected. The reality is that the legal As described by form-based code pioneer model is just one tool to further engage the tenants of this type of zoning do not extend Kaizer Rangwala (AICP): public, better predict outcomes, and ultimately beyond a project's site – or an adjacent site for “Form-based codes are an end-to-end close the gap between a community's policy that matter – and therefore cannot be expected integrated product that brings together the document, design vision, and the regulatory tool to fulfill a more comprehensive vision to create various disciplines of planning, design, used for implementation. The planning objectives a cohesive place. economic development, engineering, and of a typical community are to lay emphasis on Form-based codes attempt to remedy this. public safety early on to perform in unison. It creating places and not just building; using a form- Under a form-based code, it is still possible to becomes possible to analyze the community- based model as regulatory tool is just one limit certain uses outright, but uses are typically supported vision from every point of view, to possible solution to achieve such an outcome. self-selecting based on the scale, intensity, figure out the cost, and understand how Performance – or incentive-based zoning or even building type and public frontage required. various public and private partners can the infinite variations of form-based codes have Originally seen as an organizing strategy of implement that vision. The results are also proven to be viable alternatives or additions defining building typologies to better commun- therefore more predictable. At the same time, to use-based codes. icate the intentions of zoning, the term of a lighter focus on use allows buildings to be If the goal is to ensure that an outcome to form-based code evolved out of happenstance. nimble to the market.” community development is to be more pre- In fact, the label for this planning tool was dictable, aesthetically pleasing, economically coined as the result of an impromptu remark A form-based code model not only 2

viable, functional and flexible for a changing 0 during a 2001 presentation where a new addresses development, but also the relation-

market, and in ways that include the public in a e ship of that development to the broader process was developed and the land-use tangible design process, then form-based codes u s

context of a community and its public realm. It s regulatory framework was viewed and allow us to start that conversation. Case after I places emphasis on connection and interaction implemented through graphic or typological case, the result is continued community buy-in, • between public and private spaces, including coding. It should be noted that this type of reduced political uncertainty, and a predictable 6

interstices and frontages, as well as the form, 1 planning activity was initially introduced in the

outcome of a future vision and built environ- l massing and scale individual projects. In doing early 1980's under the banner of "urban code". ment. That said, such form-based strategies o so, the use and treatment of complete places – V What is interesting about the 2001 presen- place emphasis on the community's core values whether they are active or passive, planned or tation is that the Review Authority did not by shifting the focus of development to be less r embrace rewriting the code as a regulatory tool, impromptu – become the driving force that e oriented around a single project and more n frames the public realm. but saw it as a new method to improve and place- centric . n a better communicate the existing code. Fifteen Gabriel Barreras is a planning & design l years later, various degrees of now what is now Making the Case for Place-centric P Associate with a focus on urban design at Sargent L Planning known as form-based codes and their related Town Planning. Marc Yeber is Principal and Urban A This is not to imply that form-based hybrids have been developed and implemented Designer for Cont-X Studio concentrating on public C codes are an indisputable or singular solution more than 400 times across the U.S. realm and private landscape projects. P7 PLANNING CODES

P2 Evolving Approaches to Codes “Ultimately the suite of materials will provide a in the corridor,” said Pam common design language and integrated Johns, Rancho Cordova framework for development of the Southeast Special Project Manager. area,” remarked Christopher Jordan, AICP, The City of Assistant to the City Manager. Roseville (population The City of Rancho Cordova 128,615) can be (population 66,927 ) uses specific plans and characterized as the “City SPA's to create desired urban forms based on of Specific Plans” with 13 their General Plan. Folsom Boulevard runs specific plans covering through the heart of Rancho Cordova and the the vast majority of the Sacramento Regional Transit Blue Light Rail City, with the first one line parallels the Boulevard. In 2008, the City adopted in 1993. Many adopted an aggressive form-based Specific Plan of the earlier specific to transform the aging suburban corridor to plans relied on the city- SEPA Mixed Use Coding, Elk Grove, CA urban mixed use and transit supportive wide zoning code for basic districts. Like Fair Oaks Boulevard in uses and development standards, but newer Communities in the Sacramento area Sacramento County, businesses and property specific plans have been more comprehensive continue to evolve and rethink their regulatory owners were not entirely on board so the City in their approach with mixed-use and form- framework to reflect the pulse of the com- Council recently amended the specific plan based principles that supersede basic zoning munity and its desires to create sustainable, with fewer mandated mixed use areas and standards. One of the newest specific plans, walkable and healthy communities while at the more flexibility for existing businesses based West Area, was adopted as a key implemen- same time responding to market realities. on current market realities. For example, the tation of the SACOG Blueprint and recognizes Lessons learned include: updated plan focused on four key opportunity need for a mix of product types, and a • The Area-Specific Code (AC) will continue sites allowing a broader range of uses, flexible walkable community with over 11 miles of to be part of any communities' tool-kit to standards and “inspired ideas” to represent a Class I trails and paseos. According to Kathy encourage "special places". range of desired development types. “The goal Pease, AICP, Planning Manager for the City of of the City Council was to balance the desire Roseville, “Specific plans allow the City to • The AC must provide clear vision on the for new urban development and redevelop- comprehensively plan our communities with desired urban form and comprehensively set ment with a respect for more modest high amenities in a way that is fiscally sound the vision, goals and policies in concert with investment in existing businesses that grew up and easy to implement.” the regulatory framework. Integration of P9

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APA’s Community Planning Assistance National Association of Realtors Launching the Peer Learning Network! Teams Highlights Walkable Communities January 12, 2016 January 28, 2016 January 20, 2016 Ready, set, launch! The Plan4Health staff has The American Planning Association’s The Winter 2016 issue of On Common been busy developing a Peer Learning Network professional institute – the American Institute Ground, published by the National Association (PLN) for Plan4Health coalitions and the of Certified Planners (AICP) – engages of Realtors, is all about designing healthy community at large.

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I Improving Food Access: Examples from Walking January 7, 2016

• January 19, 2016 In September 2014, the Centers for Disease across the U.S.

6 January 26, 2016 WalkWays is working to “move Indy forward” Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a 1

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TOP THAT! ROBERT PATERNOSTER, FAICP | CPAT Program Coordinator Crazy Stories from Pro Bono Planning Assistance Program the Planning Realm Launched by California Chapter California Chapter has launched a program Here’s how the program works. Every request to provide volunteer, pro bono professional for assistance is carefully reviewed by a committee planning assistance to financially constrained of distinguished planners from the Planner Emeritus municipalities and community groups through-out Network of the California Chapter. The evaluation California and Baja California. By pairing expert considers community need, potential positive impact, planning professionals from around the State with and community readiness in terms of local residents and other stakeholders from leadership and community support. Meritorious communities with limited resources, the proposals are recommended to the California Community Planning Assistance Team (CPAT) Chapter Board of Directors for approval. program is designed to foster community A Memorandum of Understanding is then education, engagement and empowerment. executed between the community and the Chapter The Chapter needs the support of its Board of Directors, clarifying the responsibilities and membership to get this important new program expectations of the community and of APA. The underway. Two things are needed: volunteers to community agrees to reimburse team members for serve on Community Planning Assistance Teams, their out-of-pocket expenses for transportation, and the identification of communities needing food, and overnight accommodations (when such assistance. If you are interested in serving necessary), and to provide facilities and materials Do you have a planning story that makes as a volunteer, you should complete and submit a necessary to undertake the project. you scratch your head or chuckle? We're Community Planning Assistance Team Volunteer Form . The Chapter’s CPAT Coordinator selects, from seeking brief submissions that make us If you know of a community in need of pro bono among those planners who have filed a Volunteer wonder, laugh & remember that the planning planning assistance, you should tell the Form, a team leader whose expertise best meets the profession is not immune from human nature. community about the new program and needs of the specific project. The team leader and encourage them to complete and file a CPAT Coordinator assemble a multidisciplinary team Entry #1: MIC CHECK by Ben Kimball Community Request for Assistance Form . of four or five volunteer professional planners, and The CPAT program was established by the work with community leaders to establish a This story begins with a consultant who California Chapter to both benefit the munici- schedule for the planning process. The length of the was part of a team of experts making a palities and community organizations it serves, process ranges from one day to several days, presentation to a small, southern community and to provide a venue for creative community depending upon the nature of the issues and the on a groundwater management plan. There service for its members. Participation will qualify budget parameters. The planning process includes was considerable controversy over legislative for AICP credit. Each team is selected for the significant involvement of local stakeholders and actions that restricted groundwater pumping specific expertise needed to address the local broad community outreach. Once completed, the which put urban uses at odds with agricul- community’s planning problem. The team planning product is forwarded to the community in tural interests. Needing to use the toilet members engage the community representatives electronic form and published on the California APA facilities during deliberation, one of the in a short but intensive planning process which website. can develop a vision for the community’s future, a The California Chapter CPAT program is based project engineers dismissed himself to find a strategy for achieving specific planning goals, a upon a similar program which has been operated nearby restroom. Relieved at the convenient conceptual site plan for a developing area, a nationally by APA since 1995. access, he proceeded to "take care of transportation plan or parking program, an For more information on the CPAT program of business." What he didn't realize was that the economic development strategy, or a collabora- California Chapter, please contact Robert small, clip-on microphone he was wearing had tive planning process for resolving ongoing local Paternoster, FAICP, at [email protected] not been turned off. As a result, he planning issues. or (562) 400-3825. unwittingly contributed to the water topic discussion that was underway with the sound 2 effects of streaming and splashing water as 8 0 P Evolving Approaches to Codes well as a barrage of other noises. When he e u returned to the stage, he was greeted to the the public and private realms with excellent market trends and business needs. Don’t lose s s I sound of thunderous applause and much graphics is vital. your vision, but adjustments will always be • laughter. necessary. • AC’s should tier off general or compre- 6 1

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• If you update your development/zoning County of Sacramento with over 35 years of l code, plan on updating or even eliminating experience in the planning profession. She is Past P L Section Director and Board member for the Sac- outdated AC’s. A

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P4 City Garden Ordinance adjacent lots. The results are far less than lots too narrow to desirable. The only other option is to park accommodate a single underground, which is a very expensive central courtyard. All proposition for a small project. The problem here such traditional is that the code, however well intentioned, has not typologies exist in been tested rigorously enough for conventional Pasadena as precedents market feasibility. The need for a single courtyard for study and application. with a minimum required width, irrespective of lot Over two decades size or location, is a highly limiting proposition. since it was originally The code further mandates that a courtyard adopted, the CoG can be only up to two feet, eight inches above Ordinance has been existing grade over a subterranean parking amended by many structure. This has serious economic implications administrations and has for residential projects on large lots. It eliminates gradually morphed into a the possibility of designing housing on top of an tedious zoning document. on-grade garage – which is far more economical Like any zoning code – than a subterranean one. An on-grade garage on a and particularly a sizeable lot could easily be layered with residential progressive one – it Arboleda Drive. Source: Bharnes units at street level, concealing it from the needs continuous clarification and simplification. sidewalk, and creating the same positive street Such revisions can only come through the and maximum lot ranges for each of these types face for which the code currently aspires. The lessons learned from years of implementation, to ensure that they are realistic within the code’s unequivocal bias of courtyard housing, with and now the city of Pasadena urgently needs to mainstream market. It should allow various forms the courtyard being close to street level and revisit and re-evaluate this ordinance. Further, of parking, so long as it is concealed from the visible from the sidewalk for lots greater than 60 Pasadena should expand and complete this public realm. It should elaborate on frontage feet, shrinks the residential typological menu to partial typology-based code into a full-blown, conditions through location-specific interfaces expensive development projects. citywide form-based code. Pasadena needs a between the private and public realm, such as Courtyard housing is only one of many holistic planning instrument that can synchro- porches, stoops, and arcades. It should revisit the traditional residential typologies that can nize its numerous specific plans and disparate current zoning designations of the city to ensure introduce responsible density into single-family zoning codes into a single coherent formal formal compatibility on both sides of streets. It neighborhoods. Each residential typology has its vision. should also require building form and character own minimum lot dimension limits – anything Such a citywide form-based code should distinct from a corridor-to-neighborhood street below makes its design difficult. In turn, each include a number of dimensions currently as well as from a neighborhood to a district. typology has its own criteria for building form, absent from the its land use regulations. It Pasadena’s CoG Ordinance, as written in the open space and parking. For example, duplexes, should expand the menu of residential dwelling late 1980s, was far ahead of its times. It is an triplexes, quadruplexes, and townhouses are far types within multi-family zones, each with its important precedent for other North American more suitable for narrow lots and can offer open own open space and form requirements, just cities to study and build upon. It has affirmed space in the form of front yards or rear patios. like the CoG standards currently does for that, even when partially implemented, form- or Rose-walks and non-paasage lanes can work on courtyard housing. It should specify minimum typology-based coding (as an alternative to floor area ratio – and coverage-based zoning) can yield City of Gardens diagrams. Source: Bharnes compelling, sustainable results and offer a clear planning methodology for dignifying mainstream development. It has shown that the least common denominator of conventional multi- family housing can be channeled for a formal compatibility and incentivized by new products 2 0

within the market. All things considered, more

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2016: The Year of Planning Bills The 2016 Legislative Session began on January 4th and all bills for the year have now been introduced. The Legislative Review Team will be meeting on March 18th to take positions on these bills and begin lobbying efforts. Based on our initial review, this appears to be a banner year of planning legislation. There are quite a number of bills introduced dealing with affordable housing, the density bonus law, and 2. Does not contain more dwelling units AB 1569 (Steinorth) – CEQA exemption for homelessness to name just a few. than were projected by the existing transportation infrastructure. Importantly, this year APA California will be jurisdiction to be accommodated on AB 1591 (Frazier) – Assembly Democrats’ sponsoring by-right housing legislation with the the sites and any density bonus for transportation funding package. goal to make it easier to get housing built – and which the development is eligible. to avoid another round of new, additional AB 1648 (Wilk) – Restricts public records from 3. Complies with applicable, objective housing element requirements. being disclosed to a private entity in a manner that general plan and zoning standards and A short list of the most interesting is not open to the public. criteria, including design standards, in measures and a full discussion of APA AB 1886 (McCarty) – Allows CEQA exemption effect when the attached housing California’s by-right proposal are below. for transit priority projects that are within ½ mile development was determined to be of a major transit stop or high-quality transit complete. APA-Sponsored By Right Housing corridor if all parcels within the project have no Legislation 4. Is either located in an urbanized area more than 50%, rather the current 25%, of their To help address the increasing lack of or located on an infill site. area farther than ½ mile from the transit stop or affordable housing in California, APA California is 5. Contains 20% of its units for lower corridor. sponsoring legislation this year to focus on income households, or 100% for AB 1934 (Santiago) – Amends definition of building housing identified in local housing moderate-income households. “housing development” eligible for a density bonus elements rather than additional housing element This proposal will be made in conjunction to include a mixed-use project or commercial or other procedural/process requirements with a recommendation from APA that no new development with a housing component. unlikely to have much effect on the amount of housing element mandates or other process- – Prohibits mental health housing produced in the state. Strong economic AB 1967 (Gaines) centric legislation be approved, focusing on facility projects from being approved within growth combined with relatively low levels of building housing rather than continually revised 2000 feet of a school or childcare facility. 2

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AB 2140 (Hernandez) – Redefines AB 2351 (Hernandez) – Authorizes rent applicant’s application is complete within 30 farmworker housing to mean housing occupied control in mobilehome parks where the rent calendar days of receipt, and determination of by 50% of farmworkers and their households charged residents is above average rents in an application for a density bonus with 60 rather than the current 100%. mobilehome parks in the same area. calendar days; providing the applicant with AB 2162 (Chu) – Prohibits removal of AB 2388 (Gipson) – Requires local agencies appeal rights; requiring any density calculation specified oak trees from an oak woodland to adopt a mortgage program that allocates that results in fractional units to be rounded up without a plan and permit approved by the 10% of all single-family family residences that to the next whole number; allowing the Director of Fish and Wildlife. the local government agency owns and leases developer to accept no density bonus; to become eligible for current tenants of those requiring the local government to provide AB 2176 (Campos) – Allows the County of requested concessions or incentives unless it Santa Clara to use transitional housing for the units, limited to low and moderate income finds, based on substantial evidence, that the homeless after declaring a shelter crisis and persons. concession or incentive does not reduce the allows the county to enact local building, AB 2391 (Steinorth) – Allows all cities and cost of development; and additionally requiring housing, health and other standards that will be counties that opt into the program to use a fast the local government to provide the applicant operative during the crisis. track process to remove unauthorized with a waiver or reduction of development residences from vacant properties. AB 2195 (Bonilla) – Extends the California standards. Massage Therapy Act sunset date to 2019 AB 2403 (Bloom) – Requires the State AB 2502 (Mullin) – Authorizes cities and AB 2208 (Santiago) – Requires the State Public Department of Health Care Services to issue a counties to impose inclusionary housing Works Board, before constructing or seismic single license to a residential alcoholism or requirements. retrofitting a public building with state funds, to drug abuse recovery or treatment “integral sell the air rights above the building to a facilities” if there are two or more facilities AB 2522 (Bloom) – APA California’s private or nonprofit developer to construct located in the same or different parcels that sponsored by right housing bill. affordable housing and to construct the public collectively serve 7 or more persons and are AB 2593 (Brown) – Exempts from the building with the capability of supporting such controlled by the same entity. definition of a food facility requiring licensing a affordable housing. AB 2406 (Thurmond) – Authorizes local private home that is not open to the public AB 2281 (Calderon) – Provides incentives agencies to adopt ordinances allowing for where the cook directly sells food to the to home sellers to sell their homes to buyers “junior accessory dwelling units” defined as consumer. who intend to live in the home. units that are no more than 500 square feet in AB 2697 (Bonilla) – Requires successor AB 2281 (Calderon) – Restricts the total size and contained entirely within an existing agencies, before disposing of former redevelop- percentage of single family rental homes in one single-family structure, but imposes specific ment land, to send a written offer to sell for ZIP code . requirements and restrictions on the purposes of developing low- and moderate- ordinances. income housing to any local pubic entity in the AB 2292 (Gordon) – Adds population density as a population characteristic in Cal AB 2442 (Holden) – Requires a density jurisdiction. Enviroscreen. bonus if a housing development includes at AB 2734 (Atkins) – Requires the least 5% of the total units for transitional foster Department of Finance to calculate the savings AB 2299 (Bloom) – Eliminates the ability of cities and counties to adopt an ordinance youth. to the state attributable to the elimination of prohibiting second units with findings, AB 2452 (Quirk) – Prohibits a court in a redevelopment agencies and provide 50% of mandating that every local agency adopt an CEQA action from staying or enjoining that amount to HCD to provide funding to ordinance allowing second units in specific transportation infrastructure projects based local agencies for housing. areas of the jurisdiction; prohibits the solely on the project’s potential contribution to AB 2853 (Gatto) – Clarifies that “public 2 0

ordinance from imposing parking standards for the emissions of greenhouse gases. record” includes writings kept on the private e

u a second unit located within ½ mile of public AB 2475 (Gordon) – Establishes a forgivable cell phone or other electronic device of an s

s transit or shopping or is within an elected official, official, or employee of a public I loan program administered by the CA

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l funds for affordable housing projects consistent SB 879 (Beall) – Authorizes bonds to finance o AB 2311 (Brown) – Requires every local V

agency to use a state-certified sign language with the region’s SCS. low-income and homeless housing .

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MARGARITA P. McCOY, FAICP 1923 - 2016 ED CROWLEY Margarita Piel McCoy, unintended irony an 1927 - 2016 the distinguished urban “exceptionally well educated Ed passed away in planner who was the first woman.” An interview with February. Ed started his woman to chair a university the program’s director Alan career in the City of department of urban planning Kreditor also persuaded him Garden Grove Planning in the United States and the to take a chance. Department in 1968, daughter of a famed New Although admitted into and then moved on to York brewing family, died on USC’s doctoral program in the City of New March 31 at her long-time 1975, Ms. McCoy deferred in Orleans, where he home in La Habra Heights, order to accept a professor- served as the staff California. She was 92. ship in the Department of planner for the Mayor’s Task Force on Housing Ms. McCoy had entered Urban Planning at California and Redevelopment. He returned to urban planning under Polytechnic State University- California, where he remained for the rest of challenging circumstances in Pomona. At the time, the his life, serving as Assistant Planning Director the late 1960s when the brand-new program for Mendocino County, Kern County, Yolo profession, like architecture, was almost struggled to raise the skills of its many first- County, and El Dorado County and Planning exclusively male where few women had a generation students to compete with Director for the cities of Clovis and Victorville. place, either in the practice or in university graduates from the well-established planning After his “first” retirement from public service, programs. During her 50-year career, she departments at USC and UCLA. During her Ed continued to consult with NK Engineering taught at the University of Southern California, fifteen years as professor and seven years as of Davis and RMM Planning (Rose Marie chaired the planning department at California chair at Cal Poly (1977-83), she insisted on Moore) in West Sacramento, until his Polytechnic State University-Pomona, and excellence as the way to raise the program’s “permanent” retirement aorund 2000. served on planning’s accreditation committees, ranking and launch the careers of its many Ed was always proud to be a planner and pressing university departments nationwide to blue-collar working students. She also taught a was a lifelong member of APA and AICP, and open their doors to women and minorities. full course load, not only in her specialty especially supportive of his Alma Mater, San Her planning career started accidentally planning theory but every course unfunded by Jose State University. when a local chapter of The League of Women tight state budgets, correcting the grammar Voters in Massachusetts sent her to observe and checking for plagiarism in every one of the the planning board in her town of Sudbury. hundreds of essays she required of her Deciding it “interesting but being done all students each quarter. Through research, she DICK WEAVER wrong,” she ran for that Board in 1959, was also led her department to the forefront of 1923 - 2016 barely elected, and found herself caught up in critical statewide issues, chairing a citizens’ Dick was proudest of the politics of an old New England village at review committee that helped block a costly his work as the City the cusp of rapid suburban development. With corporate people mover for downtown Los Planning Director of Santa the help of newly created courses in planning Angeles and developing a plan for managing Fe Springs, which enabled at Harvard and MIT, she gained the skills to the California coastline. him to take part in the network with neighboring towns along the Amidst these demands on her time, Ms. conversion of oil fields to Concord and Sudbury rivers in a then McCoy was also active in professional sites for corporate pioneering program of wetlands protection. associations, working to widen the space for headquarters with street Just when that success was leading to a career, women in planning. She was a commissioner set-backs for landscaping her husband’s move to California for work in on the American Institute of Certified Planners and sculptures. He maintained life-long communications satellites forced her to put or AICP (1979-82, 1990-94) and was elected affiliations with the International Federation those plans on hold for another decade. to a term as its president (1981-82). She also for Housing and Planning and Rotary After a quarter-century as a mother and served as a director (1979-82) of the Ameri- 2 International. 0

housewife, following her husband to army can Planning Association (APA), and was a Dick was a leading planner in the Los e u bases and defense contracts across America, an founder of its Planning and Women Division. Angeles region in the 60s and 70s. He was a s s unexpected divorce from an aerospace As a member of the Planning Accreditation I pivotal figure in the development and • engineer left her unemployed, in debt, and out Board and the Association of Collegiate implementation of the Flood Ranch 6 in Los Angeles, far from her extended New Schools of Planning (ACSP), she inspected redevelopment project, which was an early 1

York family. Drawing upon a single term as an many of the nation’s planning schools, pressing l

success story for California redevelopment o elected member of the planning board in a often-reluctant faculty for affirmative action V

because of its focus on infrastructure,

small Massachusetts town a decade earlier, she plans to advance women and minorities. housing and community facilities. He was r applied to the highly competitive planning By the time she retired from Cal Poly in e

active with the Los Angeles Section, the n program at the University of Southern 1989 at age 66, her revitalized program, then California Chapter, and the California n a California. She was admitted as a provisional one of the largest in the United States, had Planning Foundation. l P student in 1967, at the age of 45, on the basis won a national reputation, said the APA’s In 1986, Weaver co-chaired the Local L of a sole recommendation from her ex- professional journal, “for producing the best Host Committee for the National Planning A husband’s boss, who called her with C P18 Conference in Los Angeles, a duty he shared with Sharon Hightower. P17 IN MEMORIAM

JOE HORWEDEL 1959 - 2016

Joseph “Joe” They included several of the city’s housing Accreditation Board re-accreditation. Horwedel, a longtime elements and general plans (including the In a 2014 interview, Northern News asked city planner for the City recently adopted “Envision San Jose 2040 Mr. Horwedel whether directing the planning of San Jose, California, died General Plan”), the city’s Habitat Conservation of a big city required him to apply different on February 22nd in San Plan, a number of urban village plans (including approaches based on political situations. He Jose after a Santana Row), and master plans for high-tech responded, “Planning values reflect what the short battle with cancer. headquarters (including Adobe, Hitachi, and community is about. Every city is different. He was 56. Mr. Samsung Semiconductor). He also oversaw Even within San Jose, every community is Horwedel – a member of the regulation of landfills, solid waste, and different,” and yes, “Land-use planning is the American Institute of Certified Planners – recycling facilities. Mr. Horwedel led significant political. My guiding principle is ‘Be politically received his BS in city and regional planning technology initiatives, negotiated complex new astute but apolitical.’ ” from California Polytechnic University, San Luis development and redevelopment projects, and He characterized his leadership style this Obispo, in 1983. That fall, he began what would collaborated with countless stakeholders to way: “In a large organization, 300 people, you’ve be a more than 30-year employ-ment with the garner consensus and achieve major policy got to let go and trust your staff; let people do San Jose Department of Planning, Building, and initiatives. their work. On projects, I let the staff Code Enforcement. He retired from that Active in the American Planning celebrate their successes, and if something got department in March 2014, after more than Association, Mr. Horwedel at the time of his screwed up, that was my responsibility. I let seven years as its director. That Fall, the death was serving his second two-year term as them know they’re not going to be left hanging California Planner’s Emeritus Network chair of APA’s City Planning and Management out there.” recognized Mr. Horwedel for his contributions Division of 400-plus members. “Mr. Horwedel was more than a planning to city planning and his service to the He also authored planning articles for the wonk,” wrote Nathan Donato-Weinstein in the profession. division’s newsletter and APA’s Planning Silicon Valley Business Journal . “He was funny, Mr. Horwedel was committed to Advisory Service. Mr. Horwedel served as a kind, and generous. He loved Hawaiian shirts. facilitating San Jose’s economic and future mentor and advisory committee member to And he had been to Disneyland ‘probably 15 or growth while preserving its diverse community. San Jose State University’s Urban and Regional 20’ times, and Disney World about five He led and managed an array of comprehensive Planning Department and assisted with their times.” planning programs and projects in San Jose. recent restructuring and Planning

P17 Margarita P. McCoy technical planners in the Los Angeles area.” By of sufficient size to sustain animal habitats, even delighted in reports from friends and family then, three of the eight professors in her in the middle of the Los Angeles. that Powder Canyon’s trails were busy with department were women, close to parity. By then as well, the tributes were flowing. hikers, dog walkers, mountain bikers, and even Though formally retired, she spent a decade in In 2003, the California chapter of the American horse riders. The Association of Collegiate private practice, advising communities across Planning Association (APA) honored her as a Schools of Planning (ACSP) who established Southern California on general plans that “name synonymous with service to the the Margarita McCoy Award in 1995, which is would balance growth and preservation while planning profession,” and two years later gave still bestowed biannually, captures her preparing for the fire and earthquakes that are her its Contribution to Women Award. A year pioneering spirit and unyielding passion the natural facts of life in that region. later, the APA’s national board selected her, best.. . "recognizing her outstanding contribution After retiring a second time, she served then 82, for its National Women in Planning toward the advancement of women in planning.” nine years on the planning commission of her Award, citing her “career opening the door for

2 adopted home, La Habra Heights, working to many women planners” and her “important 0

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6 general plan far beyond what she called “these her alma mater USC corrected that provisional Like Us! 1

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L colleagues on planning topics and deer and coyote somehow survived, and link architect’s plans, and tape measure in hand – A it, via wildlife corridors, to other natural areas she retired for a third time in 2012, just a few activities and be a part of the C along the region’s mesquite-covered ridgelines days before her 89th birthday. Late in life, she conversation. P18 PLANNING SERVICES DIRECTORY

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