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Tremendous opportunities to provide quality transit oriented development exist at the Florin Road light rail station area and the Meadowview Road light rail station area. Realizing these opportunites required planning for mixed-use housing opportunities for a variety of citizens while improving the opportunities to use rail transit for trip-making – thus providing travel options to new residents, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and travel in the region, as well as reducing traffic congestion in the immediate area.
The development program, conceptual plans and design guidelines for these areas should not be construed as Specific Plans. These plans and guidelines provide both general and specific guidance and direction to future development of the area that will help achieve adopted goals of the City as well as the vision developed with the effected communities. Should future development generally follow the concept and guidelines contained herein, it is anticipated that a more streamlined and less complex development review process will following compared to an alternate development strategy that does not substantially conform to the directions provided.
Saving time for future development implementation by providing a clear example of what would be acceptable at each station as well as providing program level estimates for the utility improvements required for such a plan and thus streamlining the process to realizing TOD at these sites is a key purpose of these plans. The other key purpose is to develop a set of guidelines for both stations that clearly expresses the vision of the City to help guide transit-oriented development at these locations should development occur in a slightly different manner.
It should be noted that the concepts presented herein reflect development intensities greater than anticipated by the current zoning, as well as the introduction of several key themes into the development approach. Alternative concepts also exist (including, most importantly, an even higher intensity of development than proposed herein) which could also meet the city’s goals. Nothing in this document should be construed as either restricting or discouraging the consideration of alternative concepts at both of these sights including increased density above the levels proposed herein, should the market dictate at the time of development. However, options that propose development intensities below the levels proposed herein would not be consistent with the spirit and intent of this document, the vision developed through our collaborative process, nor the generally accepted principles of transit oriented development.
It is the intent of the City of Sacramento in producing these development programs, conceptual plans and design guidelines to provide the development community with a clear but general guide for developing the Florin Station area and the Meadowview Station area in a manner consistent with TOD-friendly principles, while remaining responsive to the community and decision-maker’s vision at the time of actual project review. Translating the concepts from these plans into market-responsive developments will prove to be a tremendous accomplishment with regional benefits in Sacramento.
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Fedolia "Sparky" Harris, Senior Planner
Transportation Planning
Department of Transportation
New City Hall
915 I Street, 2nd Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 808-2996
fharris@cityofsacramento.org
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