urban design

Permanent Parklets?

Permanent Parklets?

Sebastopol has been fortunate to have had 3 parklets installed [...]

By pcfritz|2022-10-04T23:55:25+00:00October 4, 2022|Categories: Parklets, Placemaking, Sebastopol, streets, urban design, Urban Vitality|Tags: Caltrans Parklet, Parklets, Placemaking, Sebastopol, urban design, Urban Vitality|0 Comments

Parklet Update

Parklet Update

Since November of 2020 Sebastopol has had 3 parklets installed [...]

By pcfritz|2022-03-11T23:02:06+00:00March 11, 2022|Categories: Parklets, Placemaking, Sebastopol, street design, streets, traffic calming, urban design, walkable streets|Tags: Caltrans, human places, Parklets, pedestrian infrastructure, pedestrians, Sebastopol, street design, traffic calming, urban design, walkability|0 Comments

Private Parking

Private Parking

There is a bank in downtown Sebastopol that, given the [...]

By pcfritz|2021-09-11T00:42:09+00:00September 11, 2021|Categories: land use, parking, Sebastopol, urban design, zoning|Tags: infill development, parking, shared parking, urban design|0 Comments

Auto-Oriented Uses Downtown

Auto-Oriented Uses Downtown

A project came before the Planning Commission last fall that [...]

By pcfritz|2021-03-06T00:59:18+00:00March 1, 2021|Categories: general plans, land use, Sebastopol, urban design, Urban Vitality, walkable streets, zoning|Tags: auto-oriented uses downtown, FAR, general plan, redevelopment, Sebastopol, small town, zoning|0 Comments

The Happy City

Just read a great blog post from Mr. Money Mustache. [...]

By pcfritz|2017-02-11T22:19:05+00:00February 11, 2017|Categories: biking, cost of sprawl, land use, Strong Towns, Traffic, urban design, walkable streets, walking, zoning|Tags: land value, road safety, sprawl, traffic, transportation|0 Comments

Parking Requirement Impacts on Small Town Urbanism

Sebastopol, like many other small towns, needs to get a [...]

By pcfritz|2015-07-19T16:34:37+00:00July 19, 2015|Categories: Density, land use, parking, Placemaking, Sebastopol, streets, urban design, Urban Vitality|Tags: Community Character, human places, infill development, land use, Main Street Sebastopol, parking, Placemaking, Sebastopol, small town, street design, urban design, Urban Vitality, walkability|2 Comments

Community Character, State Highways and Walkability

One of the topics at our General Plan Advisory Committee [...]

By pcfritz|2015-03-15T18:03:23+00:00March 15, 2015|Categories: pedestrian connections, Placemaking, Sebastopol, street design, Traffic, urban design, walkable streets|Tags: Commercial Nodes, Community Character, connectivity, Gravenstein Highway North, Gravenstein Highway South, human places, human scale, Sebastopol, State Highway, street design, Street Smart Sebastopol, urban design, walkability|0 Comments

Surrey Parking Standards

I like the way this blog post illustrates what would [...]

By pcfritz|2015-02-06T16:54:18+00:00February 6, 2015|Categories: land use, parking, Sebastopol, streets, urban design, zoning|Tags: infill development, parking, sprawl, underdeveloped lots, urban design|0 Comments

Pro-active Marketing of Infill Sites

One of the suggestions of the SDAT Team's visit to [...]

By pcfritz|2015-01-12T13:39:59+00:00January 12, 2015|Categories: CVS development, land use, Placemaking, Sebastopol, SebastopolConnect SDAT, The Barlow, The Core Project, urban design, vision|Tags: CVS/Chase, infill development, land use, Sebastopol, The Barlow, Vision|0 Comments

Smart School Siting – 4

Today's post will be an update on the Sebastopol Charter [...]

By pcfritz|2014-12-19T15:47:48+00:00December 19, 2014|Categories: land use, pedestrian connections, schools, Sebastopol, Traffic, urban design, zoning|Tags: bikeability, climate change, connectivity, Drive-through windows, Sebastopol Charter School|0 Comments

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