Evaluating Design Review Policies in Santa Barbara, California

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Evaluating Design Review Policies in Santa Barbara, California Smart, Jason

Abstract

The purpose of this final Masters degree project is to provide information that could assist the City of Santa Barbara in deciding how to review its Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance/Single Family Design Guidelines Update (the NPO Update). The NPO Update was an effort to improve the city’s single-family residential housing design review policies and processes. The specific objectives of this project are: • Clarify the review decision problem. • Clarify the objectives of the NPO Update and the objectives of the NPO Update review. • Present possible alternative review topics and approaches and discuss their relative advantages and disadvantages. To address the above objectives, interviews were conducted with key stakeholders in Santa Barbara who were asked their opinions regarding the review. The project is also informed by city documents, relevant academic literature, and my personal experiences working as an intern for the city during a portion of the NPO Update process. This project does not attempt to determine whether the NPO Update has been successful, nor does it suggest changes to the City’s existing NPO policies and practices.

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Title	Evaluating Design Review Policies in Santa Barbara, California
Creator	Smart, Jason
Date Issued	2009-08
Description	The purpose of this final Masters degree project is to provide information that could assist the City of Santa Barbara in deciding how to review its Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance/Single Family Design Guidelines Update (the NPO Update). The NPO Update was an effort to improve the city’s single-family residential housing design review policies and processes. The specific objectives of this project are: • Clarify the review decision problem. • Clarify the objectives of the NPO Update and the objectives of the NPO Update review. • Present possible alternative review topics and approaches and discuss their relative advantages and disadvantages. To address the above objectives, interviews were conducted with key stakeholders in Santa Barbara who were asked their opinions regarding the review. The project is also informed by city documents, relevant academic literature, and my personal experiences working as an intern for the city during a portion of the NPO Update process. This project does not attempt to determine whether the NPO Update has been successful, nor does it suggest changes to the City’s existing NPO policies and practices.
Extent	864746 bytes
Genre	Graduating Project
Type	Text
File Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
Series	University of British Columbia. SCARP Graduating Projects
Date Available	2009-10-20
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0107185
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14083
Affiliation	Applied Science, Faculty of; Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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