Napa’s planning commission is beginning to develop objective design standards, a set of building requirements municipalities need to use to approve residential development projects that are ...

Architect Fred Sweeney says he supports the Objective Development Design Standards for Santa Barbara and that good architects can create great projects within the form-based planning. Credit ...

The project is currently in its design development phase which has included: preliminary research, defining constraints, objectives, and specifications, concept development, CAD modeling, design ...

The Santa Barbara City Council unanimously approved a new ordinance providing objective design standards for city developments on Tuesday. The change comes as state law mandates that housing projects ...

Objective design standards allow developers to build to the maximum extent that state law allows for a given type of project, but allows local governments to retain control over standards such as ...

On Jan. 10, the Planning Commission held the first public hearing regarding the proposed objective design standards. These standards can be used to evaluate qualified residential projects as an ...

Council also approved a new process for reviewing construction projects that are larger ... planning commission in January approved the objective design standards in a 4-3 vote, with the addendum ...

The BME Industry Capstone Program brings together CU Boulder engineering students and professionals to engage in real-world, interdisciplinary engineering problems. Sponsors share projects from their ...

“offering transparency into departmental projects, their objectives and how each initiative contributes to the goals of the council.” Each of the work plan’s 81 projects are tied to an ...