Burlingame Downtown Specific Plan - Burlingame, California

For the City of Burlingame, CA

Kevin Gardiner & Associates is leading a multi-disciplinary consultant team in preparing a new specific plan for historic downtown Burlingame, California. Downtown Burlingame is an undeniable success, but like all downtowns it is subject to ever-changing lifestyles and consumer preferences. The work plan provides a highly involved program for civic engagement informed by thoughtful analysis and evaluation, allowing the community to develop a vision and ultimately a plan that is realistic and compelling for the future while being “uniquely Burlingame.”

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Logansport Comprehensive Plan - Logansport, Indiana

For the City of Logansport

KGA led a multi-discipinary team including Gruen Gruen + Associates, Wilbur Smith Associates, Shaw Group, and H&H Associates. The Comprehensive Plan focused on downtown revitalization, neighborhood preservation, trails and recreation, economic development and tourism, historic preservation, brownfield redevelopment, urban design, and protection of rural areas within the city extraterritorial jurisdiction. More >>>

Scottsdale Downtown Plan Update - Scottsdale, Arizona

For the City of Scottsdale, AZ

Kevin Gardiner & Associates led a multi-disciplinary consultant team in updating Scottsdale's Downtown Plan. The process was custom-tailored to the needs of the City and its downtown with an emphasis on district character, connectivity within downtown, streetscape character, and sustainability. The project was structured to be a team effort with the City, with the consultant working collaboratively with staff through the process. The project received the 2008 Arizona Planning Association Award for Best Public Participation Program.

South Whisman Precise Plan - Mountain View, California

For the City of Mountain View, CA

Kevin Gardiner & Associates assisted the City of Mountain View in preparing a regulating Precise Plan for a 48-acre infill planning area. Existing uses include a number of light industrial and agricultural uses, but a number of the property owners expressed an interest in rezoning properties to allow residential use. Rather than have the area develop in a piecemeal fashion with each parcel planned independently, the City embarked on a master planning effort that will result in a coordinated, phased approach to development.

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Downtown Napa Specific Plan - Napa, California

For MIG and the City of Napa, CA

As part of a multi-disciplinary consultant team led by MIG, Kevin Gardiner & Associates is preparing the development standards and zoning for the recently initiated Downtown Napa Specific Plan. The objective will be to incorporate innovative zoning techniques and a "form-based" design-oriented approach that references surrounding context.

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Landmark Site Feasibility Study - San Carlos, California

For the City of San Carlos, CA

Kevin Gardiner & Associates assisted the City of San Carlos in studying a series of site planning alternatives for a "landmark site" at one of the primary entrances into town. The study took the project givens of two franchise hotels and one or two medical office buildings, and evaluated a range of alternatives that explored different strategies for building placement, architectural design, and site circulation.

Maple Ash Character Study - Tempe, Arizona

For the City of Tempe, AZ

KGA assisted the City of Tempe, Arizona with a character study and evaluation of potential regulatory options for one of the city's oldest neighborhoods. KGA teamed with A DYE DESIGN on an approach that emphasized neighborhood character and community involvement. More >>>

Flagstaff Pathways Plan - Flagstaff, Arizona

For the Flagstaff Metropolitan Planning Organization

The Flagstaff Pathways Plan is being produced by the Flagstaff Metropolitan Planning Organization and its member agencies: The City of Flagstaff, Coconino County, and the Arizona Department of Transportation. The plan will prioritize how tax dollars should be spent on highway, street, bicycle, pedestrian and transit projects. It will also help shape those projects to best fit the neighborhoods they serve. More >>>

Hayden Island Plan Charrette - Portland, Oregon

For the City of Portland, OR

KGA was part of a multi-disciplinary team undertaking development of a long range plan for East Hayden Island situated in the Columbia River between Portland and Vancouver, WA. The team, led by David Evans & Associates and including SERA/Urbsworks, Van Meter Williams Pollack, Parisi & Associates, and Glatting Jackson (among others), worked on this important effort to think ahead by evaluating the capability of the island to accommodate new development and serve existing development in a way that respects the boundaries of the natural environment and transportation infrastructure.

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Form-Based Zoning Code - Palo Alto, California

For the City of Palo Alto, CA

As part of a consultant team including Van Meter Williams Pollack of San Francisco and Urbsworks, Inc. of Portland, Kevin Gardiner & Associates worked on the zoning ordinance update for commercial and multifamily districts throughout Palo Alto. The objective was to incorporate innovative zoning techniques and a "form-based" design-oriented approach through the development of building and site planning design prototypes. KGA focused on standards for mixed use and transit-oriented development.

Download Pedestrian & Transit Oriented Development (PTOD) Zoning Chapter (1.08 MB)

Walnut Station Mixed Use Center Vision Plan - Eugene, Oregon

For Urbsworks Architecture and Urban Design

Kevin Gardiner and Associates joined Portland's Urbsworks to prepare a vision plan for a 73-acre transit-oriented mixed use district in Eugene, Oregon. The effort included extensive community outreach and involvement. Three distinct vision plans were prepared, culminating in a single vision plan recommendation.

Rowhouse Concept Plans - Mountain View, California

Kevin Gardiner and Associates prepared a series of concept plans as part of a feasibility study for a proposed infill rowhouse project. Design concepts tested options for a range of unit types, street layouts, and open space configurations. Particular emphasis was made on integrating the new development with the existing surrounding neighborhood.

Riverside District - Chicago, Illinois

For Addis Group

Kevin Gardiner and Associates provided consultation to the Addis Group of Berkeley on the large-scale mixed use Riverside District being developed in Chicago's South Loop. Work included an overview of "best practices" for marketing and branding of large-scale mixed use developments, as well as a strengths and weaknesses analysis of the subject property and neighboring development projects.

Download the memo "Mixed Use Best Practices Memorandum (1.41 MB)"

Downtown Precise Plan - Mountain View, California

For the City of Mountain View, CA

The 2002 Downtown Precise Plan Update focused on updating the development plan for the most central areas of Downtown Mountain View. The process included developing a series of "Concept Strategies," which ultimately served as the basis for the plan amendments.

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Rowhouse Guidelines - Mountain View, California

For the City of Mountain View, CA

The Rowhouse Guidelines document is a combined set of zoning standards and design guidelines for rowhouse development, providing direction on how new rowhouse development should be designed to create desirable residential developments and ensure a seamless integration with existing neighborhoods.

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South El Camino Real Design Guidelines - Palo Alto, California

For the City of Palo Alto, CA

The South El Camino Real Design Guidelines provide direction for enhancing the quality of El Camino Real, a high-volume commercial thoroughfare. The guidelines address issues from lot coverage and site planning to the treatment of parking lots and facade details, as well as propose prototypical development patterns for different site conditions along the corridor.

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Multidwelling Infill Prototypes - Portland, Oregon

For the City of Portland, OR

The Multidwelling Prototypes are a product of the City of Portland Bureau of Planning’s “Infill Design Project.” The prototypes are intended to serve as exemplary models for future development in low- and medium-density multidwelling zones and serve as a “path of least resistance” incentive for builders and developers, providing the advantage of regulatory certainty by illustrating configurations that are approvable under various City regulations.

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Smart Growth Design Code - Honolulu, Hawaii

For the City and County of Honolulu and the Environmental Protection Agency

The Smart Growth Design Code grew out of the community’s dissatisfaction with conventional development on Oahu and an interest in smart growth community design. The Code includes examples of alternative development patterns supported with revised development standards including parking, community design and walkability, street design, and street networks.

Warm Springs Transit Village - Fremont, California

For Warm Springs Station LLC

The Warm Springs Transit Village addresses one of the last great remaining opportunities to prepare a plan from the ground-up for development around a new BART station within the inner-ring of the Bay Area. It is designed to be part of a regional "smart growth" strategy to provide much-needed housing and make best use of the sizable public investment involved in bringing BART to Warm Springs.

Commercial and Multifamily Residential Design Guidelines - Newark, California

For the City of Newark, CA

The City of Newark's requirements and guidelines are illustrated through a series of design principles intended to ensure a consistent high quality of project design and to encourage and inspire creative design solutions. The document contains architectural guidelines applicable to all new projects, as well as "Guidelines for Extraordinary Design" which are elective standards eligible for development fee credit.

Bayfront Design Guidelines - Burlingame, California

For the City of Burlingame, CA

The Burlingame Bayfront Design Guidelines were created to assure that development is in harmony with the natural character and qualities of the area, while promoting a range of commercial uses and development types that are vital to the economy of the City and the region. The creation of the guidelines included an audit of existing regulations, an evaluation of recently approved and completed projects, and a series of committee and stakeholder meetings to ensure that the guidelines would serve the purpose of promoting, but not inhibit, quality development.

Smart Growth Strategy Regional Livability Footprint Project

For the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Bay Area Council

The Smart Growth Strategy was a regional planning effort intended to achieve support among public officials, civic leaders, and stakeholder organizations for a preferred land use pattern that will inform how the Bay Area could grow over the next 20 years. A "Place Types Manual" was used at large community meetings as a means to facilitate communication and inform participants from disparate backgrounds about “smart growth” planning concepts.

Colma General Plan - Colma, California

For the Town of Colma, CA

In 1999 the Town of Colma embarked on a comprehensive update of its General Plan with the stated goal of sustaining the essential economic, environmental and social attributes of the Town. More >>>