HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 19-050 update Village design GuidelinesRESOLUTION NO. 19-050
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA
ADOPT THE UPDATED VILLAGE DESIGN GUIDELINES
WHEREAS, The City Council adopted Saratoga Village Design Guidelines on January
2, 1991 to implement the design policies of the 1988 Saratoga Village Specific Plan; and
WHEREAS, on May 24, 2016 the City Council confirmed that the Village Specific Plan
had served its useful life, and that future policy guiding land use, development and building
modifications in the Village should be incorporated into the General Plan, Village Design
Guidelines, and the City Code, and authorized a work plan to update the Village Design
Guidelines; and
WHEREAS, On August 16, 2017, the Council was presented with the draft policy
statements for the Village Design Guidelines as recommended by the Planning Commission with
input from the Heritage Preservation Commission. The City Council affirmed the Planning
Commission's recommendations and staff was directed to incorporate the approved policy
statements into a Village Design Guidelines document with updated graphics and format that is
similar to the Residential Design Guidelines;
WHEREAS, staff and consultants prepared proposed illustrations and on May 8, 2019
the Planning Commission reviewed the proposed illustrations and recommended to the City
Council that they be adopted together with minor text amendments; and
WHEREAS, the attached document retains the text and polices approved on August 16,
2017 to add illustrations and makes minor text amendments recommended by the Planning
Commission together with further clarifying revisions by the City Council.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Saratoga does
hereby adopt the updated Village Design Guidelines.
The above and foregoing resolution was passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Saratoga
City Council held on the 21 st day of August 2019 by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor E. Manny Cappello, Vice Mayor Howard Miller, Council Members Rishi
Kumar, Mary -Lynne Bernald, Yan Zhao
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
anny Cappello, Mayor
DATE: th 21 O l 9
ebbie Bretschneider, City Clerk