Feb 12, Mar 12, Apr 9, Apr 23, May 14

 

Without housing close to jobs, schools, recreation and shopping, we will not achieve a sustainable community. What are the measures that will bring about a complete community? How do we plan for growth in housing that doesn’t increase traffic and vehicle miles traveled? How can housing growth boost our affordable housing stock, instead of just attracting new affluent residents to the area? How can growth along transit corridors be a benefit to the surrounding neighborhoods rather than diminish the quality of life?

 

• Feb 12:   Watch the videos of Jeff Speck (Part 1, and Part 2) on getting to a walkable city
• March 12:  Watch  Peter Calthorpe video on how locating growth along transit corridors can be a community benefit
• April 9:   City of Santa Cruz planner Sarah Neuse will examine the decisions that the City will soon make in creating objective design standards for new development, as well as possible revisions of its General Plan. Check out the City’s web page to learn about objective standards.
• April 23:  Rick Longinotti will present on how reform of parking requirements, especially unbundling the cost of parking from the cost of a residential unit, can reduce housing costs and driving. Rick will discuss what we can do to protect adjacent neighborhoods from increases in parked cars and traffic. Read CFST’s webpage on parking policy.
• May 14:  Former Planning Commissioner Mike Guth will present what’s at stake in the the County’s adoption of a zoning ordinance. How will the County treat the Sustainable Santa Cruz County Plan, a plan that is already being subverted by a proposed Kaiser office building and 740 space parking garage far from a transit corridor?  See Kaiser Won’t Thrive in a Transit Desert