The proposed Official Community Plan is a big document to go through, and new elements within it keep cropping up. Below are a few that don’t quite seem to jibe with each other:
- The OCP purports to support sustainability on the one hand (Page 12.1), and a huge increase in growth on the other (Page 35).
- While the document argues that City Hall should “Consider view impacts from the valley or from water bodies and from hillside development sites,” (p.35, Objective 3.12) but it also says that “Higher building forms, such as point towers, will be permitted,” on hillsides and shorelines in some circumstances (p.36, Objective 3.13.2).
-The new OCP advocates for more walkable communities, but it permits extensive hillside development with “Single-loaded travel lanes or one-way streets”, “Narrow and/or steep local roads”, “Very steep driveways”, and “Sloping boulevards with fewer sidewalks” (p.37, Objective 3.14.1). Read the rest of this entry »
