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Specific Area Plans
A Specific Plan is a planning and regulatory tool made available to
local governments by the State of California. They are intended to
implement the city’s general plan by outlining policies, programs
and regulations for an identified area of the city. They provide a
vision, guidance and implementation strategy for development.
The Healdsburg 2030 General Plan also requires that a specific
plan be prepared and adopted for an area prior to annexing that
area into the City. The following four documents are intended
to carry out the goals of the Healdsburg 2030 General Plan and
provide specific guidance for development in these areas. Each
of these Specific Area Plans provides design guidelines and/or
design standards that new development must follow. However,
the guidance provided often does not cover the total range
of topics that may be relevant to a new development. In some
cases, design guidelines may not have been covered for every
topic because of community feedback, or because flexibility
regarding a specific topic is allowed, which was a decision
resulting from extensive study of the area. After reviewing design
guidelines and/or standards in the relevant document, if readers
feel that they that they would like more information and/or
guidance regarding a specific design topic, they may refer to the
appropriate section(s) in this design guidelines document for more
information. However, they are not required to follow the design
guidelines provided in this document.

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