The City Council invite public participation in a Public Hearing for the following: The City proposes to implement Objective ...

All California cities are required to develop objective design standards under state law, City Manager Tom Williams said. That means that standards for new residential development must be defined ...

The Arbor Real residential community in Palo Alto ... criteria to automatically qualify for those flexible design standards.” A key goal is to give developers of affordable housing more ...

Essentially, buildings will no longer have to conform to residential design standards. Mayor Suzanne LaFrance spoke in favor of the ordinance, and said it won’t get rid of standards for safety ...

The measure was brought forward by Assembly Vice Chair Meg Zaletel and member Anna Brawley, who said it would give the city time to collect data and consider what residential design standards it ...