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Council advances ordinance creating objective design and development standards with minor changes
Summary
Council introduced and adopted by title an ordinance creating Title 25 — Objective Design and Development Standards — and amended zoning provisions; council approved staff’s recommendation with a minor modification to an articulation threshold and a typographical correction following public testimony and extended debate.
The Santa Barbara City Council voted Feb. 4 to introduce and adopt by reading of title an ordinance creating Title 25, “Objective Design and Development Standards” (ODDS), and to amend Title 30 of the municipal code to add an objective design review pathway for multiunit residential and mixed‑use projects.
City planners said the standards are intended to provide measurable, verifiable rules for projects that choose a ministerial, streamlined review path under state law. “Objective standards mean there’s no personal or subjective judgment by a public official,” Rosie Deisty, project manager in the Community Development Department, told the council. “The standards are measurable and verifiable.”
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