About the Countywide Design Guidelines
About the Countywide Design Guidelines
Section titled “About the Countywide Design Guidelines”These Countywide Design Guidelines provide consistent design principles to implement the County General Plan. They have been developed to encourage high quality development that strengthens the economic vitality of all areas of the County. The purpose of these guidelines is to create design recommendations and standards for review of projects that are easy to understand and will result in well designed and sustainable projects that raise the overall design quality of development occurring within the County. They encourage active transportation and transit supportive development in appropriate locations and anticipate new types of opportunities where commercial and residential uses could be developed into new village centers that provide social and economic focus to the surrounding neighborhoods.
Please note that if your project is within a Special Planning Area (SPA) there may be additional design guidelines that will apply to your project.
Chapters
Section titled “Chapters”Appendices
Section titled “Appendices”| Appendix | Topic |
|---|---|
| A | Relationship to Other Documents |
| B | Special Standards |
| C | Case Studies and Checklists |
| D | Active Design |
| E | Glossary |