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All multifamily and mixed-use zones
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Award
2024 APA California Chapter Award of Excellence for Planning Agency: City of Campbell - Planning Division, City of Campbell, Opticos Design, Inc., M-Group, De Novo Planning Group
Multi-Family Design and Development Standards
Campbell, CA
Opticos created objective design and development standards that replace existing zoning for multi-family and mixed-use projects subject to the Housing Accountability Act for the City of Campbell, CA. These resulting Multi-Family Development and Design Standards (MFDDS) enable the implementation of the City’s urban design and housing production priorities, as expressed in the new General Plan and existing area plans, while also complying with state requirements for by-right ministerial review.
Providing much needed housing to the Silicon Valley
Hired by the City of Campbell, CA, Opticos’ work was informed by a significant amount of community and stakeholder outreach through small groups, community meetings, and workshops. The MFDDS helped streamline approval processes to build more housing while providing certainty to applicants, decision makers, residents, and the general public.
- The standards cover a wide range of environments from small single-family neighborhoods to 5-story neighborhoods and 7-story mixed use corridors.
- “Large site” standards require superblocks to be divided into walkable blocks.
- Adjacency-massing standards require larger buildings to change in scale near smaller buildings.
- Façade composition standards provide clear and objective design options while ensuring variety.
- Collaborative process with City staff of preparing draft standards, drawing test fits, and meeting with the community, stakeholders, planning commission, and City Council.
The City of Campbell – Planning Division received the 2024 Award of Excellence for Planning Agency from the American Planning Association California Chapter including recognition of Opticos’ collaboration on the MFDDS.