Specific Plan

Project Update:  The next City Council Study Session to discuss the Specific Plan is currently scheduled for August 25, 2025, 7pm, City Hall Council Chamber

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In 2021 the City Council established the following goal in its 2021 Strategic Plan:

“The City of San Carlos will work with residents, property owners, business owners, committees, commissions, the Chamber of Commerce, and all other interested members of the community to develop a plan to understand and ensure that the downtown meets the needs of the community and businesses now and into the future.”

Two different, but complementary documents are essential for fulfilling this City Council goal: (1) a Specific Plan, and (2) a Streetscape Master Plan. Together, these two documents will govern future development and street improvements in the downtown over the next 20 years, The Specific Plan will establish goals, policies, standards for new development, and identify action items that will be undertaken throughout the life of the plan. The Streetscape Master Plan provides clear, delineated space allocations for all users within the street rights-of-way and provides clear instruction for how the streets would be beautified with new paving, lighting, public seating, public restrooms, new street trees and landscaping, and new public plaza and park designs.
 
City staff and the consultant team are working towards completing the Downtown Specific Plan.  The next Study Session with the City Council will be held Monday, August 25, 2025, at 7 pm at 600 Elm Street in the City Council Chamber.
 
Staff and the consultant team will present the initial draft goals, policies, actions and development standards that will apply to the downtown’s 67.5-acre plan area. 
 
City staff is aiming to release a Public Draft Downtown Specific Plan in mid-September, with formal adoption hearings scheduled on October 25 and November 10 this year.

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