Page 17 - Healdsburg, CA Citywide Design Guidelines

Relationship to Zoning, Area Plans EXISTING PLANS AND

and Other Existing Policies POLICIES
The design guidelines support existing plans and policies The Design|Healdsburg Citywide
Design Guidelines support goals
adopted by the City of Healdsburg. This document is intended to and policies that have already been
be consistent with existing policies and to implement them. Key adopted by the City of Healdsburg.
policy and regulatory documents are summarized below. Each of these are summarized in this
section. For further information, visit
Four of the documents listed in this section are Special Area Plans the links to each of the plans below.
that have been adopted by the City. These include Specific Plans, Healdsburg 2030 General Plan:
Neighborhood Plans and plans for targeted areas in the city. Each http://www.ci.healdsburg.ca.us/
of these plans includes design guidelines and/or development DocumentCenter/Home/View/634
standards that must be followed when proposing a project in the Central Healdsburg Avenue Area
specified area. While each list of topics covered in the plans differs Plan (CHAP):
http://www.ci.healdsburg.ca.us/
and may not cover every topic in question for a development DocumentCenter/Home/View/772
proposal, these topics were selected and are subsequently
regulated because of extensive study and community input. Foss Creek Pathway Plan:
http://www.ci.healdsburg.ca.us/
Therefore, if an applicant desires to learn more about a topic that DocumentCenter/View/802
is not covered in the Special Area Plan, he/she may refer to this Area A Specific Plan:
design guidelines document for more information; however, he/ http://www.ci.healdsburg.ca.us/
she is not required to follow the subsequent design guidelines. DocumentCenter/Home/View/767
More information about these Specific Area Plans is provided in Grove Street Neighborhood Plan:
Chapter 4. http://www.ci.healdsburg.ca.us/
DocumentCenter/View/803
Healdsburg 2030 General Plan Saggio Hills Area Plan:
The Healdsburg General Plan serves as a fundamental policy http://www.ci.healdsburg.ca.us/
document of the City of Healdsburg to guide decision-making DocumentCenter/View/832
by the community about public and private land use and Healdsburg Bicycle and Pedestrian
development that shapes Healdsburg’s physical environment. Master Plan:
The General Plan also defines Healdsburg’s environmental, social http://www.ci.healdsburg.ca.us/
DocumentCenter/Home/View/771
and economic goals so that future planning and development
supports a common set of goals that define Healdsburg’s Healdsburg Housing Action Plan
(HAP):
character. Special Area Plans and other policies must support the https://www.ci.healdsburg.ca.us/
goals and policies of the General Plan. DocumentCenter/View/6637

Land Use Code
The Land Use Code, a portion of Healdsburg’s Municipal Code,
promotes the public health, safety and general welfare of the
community. The Land Use Code provides a variety of policies
that implement the Healdsburg General Plan as well as the
City’s Specific and Area Plans. The Land Use Code provides
base standards for the physical development of Healdsburg that
apply to all properties throughout the city. The Land Use Code
also provides policies for the protection of historic resources in
Healdsburg.

Unlike the Land Use Code’s regulations that dictate exactly what
a property owner can and cannot do with a property, the Citywide
Design Guidelines focus on how a project is constructed. The
Introduction Chapter 1 9