Urban Vitality

Parklets Help to Create Place

Parklets Help to Create Place

The temporary parklet permits issued by Caltrans during the early [...]

By pcfritz|2023-01-14T01:17:07+00:00January 14, 2023|Categories: Parklets, Placemaking, Sebastopol, Urban Vitality|Tags: Caltrans, car-oriented infrastructure, human places, Parklets, people places, Sebastopol, urban design, vibrancy|0 Comments

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

Park(ing) Day 2021

Park(ing) Day 2021

Today is Park(ing) Day! Started in San Francisco in 2005, [...]

By pcfritz|2021-09-17T23:42:25+00:00September 17, 2021|Categories: Placemaking, Sebastopol, streets, Urban Vitality, walkable streets|Tags: human places, PARK(ing) Day, Parklets, Sebastopol, small town, urban design, walkability|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 Parklet Project

The Parklet Project

The Parklet Project was a success! We set up 3 [...]

By pcfritz|2025-02-02T04:53:12+00:00May 3, 2017|Categories: Pedestrian Safety, Placemaking, Sebastopol, street design, streets, The Core Project, Urban Vitality, walkable streets|Tags: human scale, Parklets, pedestrians, public space, sidewalks|1 Comment

The Parklet Project

The Parklet Project

The Core Project and the City of Sebastopol are sponsoring [...]

By pcfritz|2017-05-26T17:34:32+00:00April 28, 2017|Categories: Pedestrian Safety, Placemaking, Sebastopol, streets, The Core Project, Urban Vitality, walkable streets|Tags: human scale, PARK(ing) Day, Parklets, pedestrians, traffic calming, urban design|0 Comments

Santa Rosa: A City in Flux

This post was originally published as a guest post on [...]

By pcfritz|2016-01-15T11:38:12+00:00January 15, 2016|Categories: Background, cost of sprawl, land use, Strong Towns, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Vitality|Tags: cost of sprawl, infill development, land use, land value, Santa Rosa, SMART Train, Strong Towns, Urban 3, Urban Community Partnership, Urban Growth Boundary|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

After Hours Vitality and a Movie Theater

I was asked recently to suggest ways to provide vitality [...]

By pcfritz|2015-04-24T12:05:40+00:00April 24, 2015|Categories: land use, pedestrian connections, Sebastopol, The Barlow, Urban Vitality|Tags: connectivity, missed opportunity, pedestrians, Placemaking, Sebastopol, Sebastopol Documentary Film Fesitval, Sebastopol Rialto Cinema, The Barlow, Urban Vitality, walkability|1 Comment