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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

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

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

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

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

Traffic Calming

I am a member of the Sebastopol General Plan Advisory [...]

By pcfritz|2014-11-14T14:05:12+00:00November 14, 2014|Categories: Sebastopol, street design, streets, Traffic, Uncategorized, urban design, walkable streets|Tags: human places, pedestrians, Placemaking, raised intersection, street design, traffic calming, urban design, walkability, walkable streets|4 Comments

Building Dense Does Not Have To Be Dense

This is an interesting blog post that discusses good and [...]

By pcfritz|2014-11-07T17:20:10+00:00November 7, 2014|Categories: Density, land use, urban design|Tags: density, human places, infill development, land value, small town, urban design, walkability|0 Comments

Sebastopol PARK(ing) Day

The blog today comes from a parklet constructed by the [...]

By pcfritz|2014-09-19T13:48:01+00:00September 19, 2014|Categories: parking, Placemaking, Sebastopol, streets, The Core Project, Uncategorized, urban design, walkable streets|Tags: PARK(ing) Day, parking, pedestrians, Placemaking, Sebastopol, street design, urban design, walkable streets|0 Comments

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