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© OxnardRenaissance.org         Roy's Oxnard Renaissance Placemaking Newsletter         2018 ~ #22a
 

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Welcome Oxnard PlaceMakers

Roy Prince is a licensed Architect and Oxnard resident. He is an advocate for good urban design and planning and runs the OxnardRenaissance.org website/blog and newsletter.

OxnardRenaissance.org focuses on Oxnard placemaking, housing, and planning issues. We support infill incremental and small-scale walkable market-rate and affordable housing and mixed-use development in downtown Oxnard, neighborhoods surrounding the downtown, and along Oxnard's main street corridors and civic nodes.

Oxnard is a more than 210,000 strong multi-cultural population, and if we do not plan properly - sprawl will continue to be our future. Current Oxnard zoning and design guidelines incentivize sprawl, lousy architectural design, and poor planning.

Planning for the future is all about Economic Development. Oxnard cannot properly develop economically when starved of planning staff.

Currently, Oxnard does not have appropriate Development Standards and Design Guidelines to allow for the proper implementation of the Downtown Oxnard Vision Plan Charrette. However, the good news is that a Downtown Revitalization Manager, as recommended in the Vision Plan, has recently been hired by the City and Development Standards and Design Guidelines are being developed for Oxnard.

There is no Architectural Review in the entire City of Oxnard (except for a very limited and flawed Downtown Design Review Committee). This is hard to believe - a SoCal coastal city - and developers can do whatever they want in terms of architectural design. Unacceptable. Poor design equates to poor economic development. Who wants to invest in a place that is poorly designed? Not developers for sure...

Oxnard is killing potential economic development by starving it's Economic Development and Planning departments of staff. Oxnard needs 20 to 25 planners but currently has about 7 staff planners. Ventura, a city with half the population of Oxnard, has more than 11 staff planners. If Oxnard wants economic development it must hire more planners and economic development staff.

We post on placemaking and planning subjects that we think will inform and educate - while posts may not be specific to Oxnard - all will assist us to deepen our appreciation for and understanding of universal Traditional Neighborhood Development and New Urbanist planning principles and issues.

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