Rancho Cucamonga City Council reviews North Eastern Sphere Annexation Plan design concepts

Oct 21st, 2015
Plan Progress

The STP team presented initial planning and design concepts for the North Eastern Sphere Annexation Plan to the City Council and received their input and support for the proposed approach.

 The plan framework envisions the conservation of approximately 3,500 acres of foothill terrain, the restoration of natural streams through the site, the development of a mixed-use town center in a former gravel mining area, and development of several walkable neighborhoods with a wide range of housing options, a new elementary school, and neighborhood parks, playgrounds, and trails connecting to newly conserved wild lands of the foothills above.  The City Council expressed their support for the proposed balance of new development, the proposed conservation and restoration of foothill habitats, and asked that they receive updates as the strategies for habitat conservation are further developed.

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STP Presents North Eastern Sphere Annexation Plan concepts to the Rancho Cucamonga Planning Commission

Aug 12th, 2015
Plan Progress

In a an evening study session the Rancho Cucamonga Planning Commission received the STP team's presentation of the goals and initial concepts for habitat conservation and restoration of the large majority of the City's 4,388-acre North Eastern Sphere Annexation Plan Area, and the development of n

ew walkable neighborhoods and mixed-use town center to underwrite the cost of conservation.  The presentation included habitat analysis and conservation strategies, a flexible framework for walkable mixed housing type neighborhoods, and conceptual designs for a town center in a former gravel mine with shops along a "Wilson Avenue main street" with restaurants around a major plaza overlooking a preserve running through the center of the site.  The neighborhood design emphasizes access to recreational trails and views of the mountains, valley, and open space preserve.  The Commission was supportive of the concepts presented and indicated they look forward to seeing the plan again when the conservation plan is further developed.

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Third Public Workshop for Palm Desert 111 Corridor Plan

Mar 10th, 2015
Plan Progress

In a third and final public workshop, the Raimi/Sargent team presented a preferred alternative framework plan for the Palm Desert 111 Corridor and City Center.  The plan presented consolidated concepts presented in two earlier workshops, reflecting the expressed community input and preferences.

The presentation included illustrations of themajor streetscape transformations proposed, illustrations of typical devleopment types and urban scale and character, and preliminary recommendations for zoning changes and updates.  As in the previous two workshops a lively and productive discussion ensued, with additional valuable input and direction. The team will now organize all of that information into a 111Corridor Plan section for the General Plan Update, along with new zoning standards. public realm standards and implementation manual for the Corridor.

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Second Public Workshop for Palm Desert 111 Corridor Plan

Dec 8th, 2014
Plan Progress

On Thursday, December 4 at the Desert Willow Resort the Raimi/Sargent team led a second public workshop to present and receive community input on a range of design concepts for Palm Desert's 111 Corridor.

 Following the successful initial workshop in early October, the STP team had worked rapidly to devise and illustrate the urban design framework to transform the 111 Corridor from an old highway strip to a multi-way boulevard to expand the existing El Paseo shopping district into a larger City Center District, linking it to the existing Civic Center to the north on San Pablo Avenue.  The assembled group of residents, business and property owners and community leaders received these recommendations enthusastically, and through large group and small group discussion offered a great deal of creative input. A third workshop is scheduled for March.

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First Public Workshop for Palm Desert 111 Corridor Plan

Oct 20th, 2014
Plan Progress

In a public workshop hosted by the Desert Willow Golf Resort, the Raimi/Sargent team presented initial planning concepts and suggestions for the 111 Corridor to a gathering of over 50 residents, business owners, property owners and community leaders.

The 111 Corridor is the historic "main drag" of Palm Desert, adjacent to their renowned El Paseo retail main street, which as developed a reputation as "the Rodeo Drive of the Desert", but 111 remains a somewhat ragged highway strip cutting through town.  

The purpose of the workshop was to offer some suggestions of how Highway 111 might be repositioned as Boulevard 111 that extends the high quality pedstrian/shopping environment of El Paseo, becoming part of the City center rather than a "downtown bypass".  Through extensive discussion in small groups participants provided a great deal of creative input, very supportive of the direction the team was heading. Following the workshop the Sargent design team will work rapidly to prepare a series of design concepts and alternatives that will be presented in a second public workshop in early December.

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