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Solvang moves toward a visual design handbook and village color palette to guide storefronts
Summary
Design reviewers and planning staff supported creating a new design handbook to replace 1990s guidelines, produce illustrations and checklists, and adopt a village color palette as an immediate first deliverable to give applicants clearer, more objective guidance.
Members of Solvang’s Design Review Committee, planning staff, and business representatives used a workshop to push for a modern design handbook and an adoptable village color palette that would give applicants objective starting points and reduce subjective, inconsistent decisions.
Rafael, the planning staff presenter, told the committee that the town’s existing design guidelines date to the 1980s–1990s and are “pretty rudimentary.” He said the handbook would include illustrations, a functional color palette, and graphical checklists to help property owners and designers understand the city’s expectations. “We don’t have a…
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