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Lafayette design panel endorses objective design standards draft with edits, forwards recommendation to Planning Commission
Summary
The Design Review Committee reviewed Phase 2 of Lafayette's objective design standards to guide multifamily and mixed-use projects, agreed to a set of drafting edits requested by commissioners and members of the public, and voted unanimously to recommend the revised package to the Planning Commission.
The Lafayette Design Review Committee on an evening meeting reviewed a consultant-drafted update to the city's objective design standards (ODS) intended to support ministerial review of multifamily and mixed-use projects and to align with the city's recently adopted housing element.
Lisa Wise Consulting's Monica Sudlik and colleagues presented the draft ODS, describing standards on massing, facade articulation, upper-story stepbacks, fenestration, materials and parking screening. Sudlik said the updated standards will apply to multifamily and mixed-use zones citywide and were developed after working-group sessions and an open house earlier the same evening. "SB 330 requires a ministerial review pathway, which is nondiscretionary for residential projects," the consultant said in the presentation.
Why it matters: the ODS will be the…
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