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Buellton planning commission reviews preliminary plans for San Ynez Valley Children’s Museum
Summary
The Buellton Planning Commission held a preliminary review of the San Ynez Valley Children’s Museum, hearing applicants’ revised plans for an outdoor STEAM-focused discovery campus, staff concerns about floodplain and trash-enclosure siting, and public calls to zone adjacent Williamson Green as park/open space.
The Buellton City Planning Commission on March 7 reviewed revised preliminary plans for the San Ynez Valley Children’s Museum, a proposed outdoor discovery campus on the Willingham property at 202 Dairyland Road.
Jillian Knight, an operations consultant and board member for the museum, told the commission the revisions shift the concept to an outdoor STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) campus aligned with California education standards and designed to be financially sustainable through targeted grants and sponsorships. “By refining the project in this way, we're also creating a more financially sustainable model,” Knight said.
The project team said the plan repurposes several existing buildings on the site, including a large shipping-container structure, and organizes the site into themed zones — water/earth science, sustainability and ecology, air-quality displays, geology and paleontology, human-powered technology, garden and an outdoor classroom. Architect Michael Holliday said the team has completed a site…
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