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Tag Archives: District Plans

Downtown Artesia

December 2, 2023by Alan Loomis Leave a comment

Just under 100 acres in total area, the Artesia Downtown Specific Plan anticipates the new Southeast Gateway Metro Rail line connecting Artesia with Los Angeles Union Station, and plans for between 1000 and 2000 new residential units in various urban development typologies.

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Codes & Ordinances, District Plans, PlaceWorks, TOD Plans, Work

Long Beach Shoreline Vision Plan

September 19, 2023by Alan Loomis Leave a comment

The Shoreline district serves as the threshold between Downtown Long Beach and the city’s waterfront. The City is undergoing a visioning process to prepare a new plan for the district. The vision plan will embrace the City’s recent growth and look to future opportunities in this area for further housing, hospitality and recreational development.

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District Plans, PlaceWorks, Waterfronts, Work

DTSBSP

December 10, 2022by Alan Loomis Leave a comment

The Downtown San Bernardino Specific Plan imagines and describes the steps to revitalize one of Southern California’s largest downtowns.

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Codes & Ordinances, District Plans, PlaceWorks, TOD Plans, Work

Los Alamitos Town Center

April 12, 2022by Alan Loomis Leave a comment

The Los Alamitos Town Center Strategic Plan provides a framework to revitalize, reimagine, and strengthen the heart of Los Alamitos. The Strategic Plan aims to establish a pedestrian-oriented Town Center at the intersection of Katella and Los Alamitos Boulevards, in the physical center of the City.

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District Plans, PlaceWorks, Work

Maryland Off Broadway

March 9, 2011by Alan Loomis 7 Comments

“Maryland Off Broadway” is a Focused Implementation Plan to create an Art and Entertainment District in Downtown Glendale.

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City of Glendale, District Plans, Maryland Off Broadway, Plans for Arts, Work

Glendale Downtown Specific Plan

November 7, 2006by Alan Loomis 13 Comments

The Glendale Downtown Specific Plan is an award-winning design-based planning document that guides development in the 200-acre urban heart of Glendale, California.

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City of Glendale, Codes & Ordinances, District Plans, Work

North Montclair

May 15, 2006by Alan Loomis

The North Montclair Downtown Specific Plan, adopted in 2006, mitigates the City’s sprawl by establishing a framework and development strategy for a pedestrian-oriented retail and residential District surrounding the city’s regional transit center

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Codes & Ordinances, District Plans, Moule & Polyzoides, TOD Plans, Work

Downtown Newhall

June 1, 2005by Alan Loomis

This 300-acre Specific Plan, adopted in 2006, reestablishes the community’s connections along two Corridors, intensifies the two historic Neighborhoods that flank the downtown and transforms the original 1870s settlement into a Transit-Oriented District linked by commuter rail to Los Angeles.

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Codes & Ordinances, District Plans, Moule & Polyzoides, TOD Plans, Work

Azusa Civic Center Master Plan

October 1, 2001by Alan Loomis

The Azusa Civic Center Master Plan outlines a strategy for enhancing and expanding the institutional heart of this East San Gabriel Valley city

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Azusa, Civic & Campus Plans, District Plans, Moule & Polyzoides, Streets & Parks, Work

Azusa Station

September 19, 2000by Alan Loomis 1 Comment

Azusa Station establishes the future Gold Line light rail station as a northern anchor to the City’s downtown.

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Azusa, District Plans, Moule & Polyzoides, TOD Plans, Work

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1/3 Charles Moore’s contribution to the UC Irvine campus, the domestically scaled Extension Education Center, is inspired by the three chapels of San Gregorio in Rome. In fact, as Moore himself admits in the essay “The Qualities of Quality,” the triparte elevation design featuring a scalloped baroque centerpiece flanked by paired arched facades, is a near literal copy of the 17th Century Roman precedent. (As seen in the etching by Giuseppe Vasi). Approached via a set of scalloped steps and sitework, more elaborate than in Rome, the building likely felt more monumental when first built than today now that it is surrounded by the multi-story boxes of the Business School, Law Library and nearby Social Sciences Parking Structure. 2/3 Behind the ochre-colored baroque facades of Moore’s UC Irvine Education Center, are simple gable-roofed buildings containing offices and classrooms. Here the unity of the main facade(s) dissolves into a collection of loosely arranged structures around a loosely defined central courtyard flanked by shed-roof post-and-beam arcades. From this perspective, where the baroque facades read as clear false fronts, the architectural inspiration seems more cowboy western than Roman. As is often the case with Moore’s more experimental work, the quality of the architectural finishes and details is also a little cowboy western. 3/3 The baroque centerpiece of Moore’s UC Irvine Education Center is flanked by a pair of rambling buildings that create a piazza of sorts, delineating a promenade and pathway leading to/from the larger campus. Indeed, one of the structures bridges over the pathway with a low-slung postmodern archway, marking a gateway to this strange quasi-Roman fragment within the UCI campus. Like many of the forgotten corners of Rome, the legibility of this odd little California piazza is now obscured by overgrown landscaping and sycamore trees. One suspects Moore would be pleased. The typology and culture of Parisian cafes is most wonderful.

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