Do you like the 2 new hotels being proposed for
Oxnard's premier gateway location?
Just Say NO!
Andrés Duany on the Architectural Review Process
Click to view YouTube video just below.
While the context and subject are a bit different...you get the idea.
No more junk architecture for Oxnard.
Will these buildings help make Oxnard a more attractive place? Why would Oxnard approve buildings that do not make our community more attractive and desirable? Just say NO!
Oxnard cannot allow these monstrosities to be built in our premier and final gateway location. Just say NO.
The developer has the option to build without further City Council approval and can move forward at will - but only with the final approval by Oxnard's Community Development Director.
Oxnard must protect its premier gateway location. Oxnard must say NO and deal with the consequences.
What impression will these hotels give about Oxnard? What do you think these hideous hotels will say to people driving by Oxnard? Do you think people will want to get off the freeway and visit our downtown or even stop at all?
Please contact your favorite Oxnard City Council member ASAP - and just say NO.
And please forward this message to your friends and associates.
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 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...
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