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Campbell Community Meeting Report: S. Winchester Dev Plan
Posted: Sep 1 2007, 03:57 PM
A crowd consisting primarily of local residents attended a meeting recently in the Campbell City Hall Chambers to discuss their ideas of the development of Winchester Blvd. from Hamilton to Budd Avenue and to hear city staff present various kinds of design standard possibilities as the boulevard is developed. Led by Acting Community Development Director Jackie Young Lind, ideas and concerns were recorded and recapped at the end of the evening.
Primary concerns were traffic and parking, with citizens asking to know about traffic studies and how parking would affect surrounding neighborhoods. Building massing seemed to worry some and the residential property owners were close to unanimous in wanting to keep new buildings to two stories. Ideas flowed like wanting "buildings to be separated with landscaping to avoid walled-in corridors" and wondering if they could be set back from the sidewalks.
As Young Lind explained, this plan will focus on design standards for the Winchester corridor and not a specific project, but many of the audience members, aware that a complex was being designed for senior citizens where Winchester Hardware once stood (including a number of parcels behind and north of it) felt that traffic and parking concerns could be strong issues.
Already approved is a single story retail development on the property where A&W Root Beer once stood.
The meeting focused on design concepts and some expressed concern that if there was no variation in the architectural design, the area would have a "sameness". About half the audience seemed to favor some differences in design and repeated they didn't want a "Santana Row" look.
A hearing will be schedule with the city's planning commission to further consider the plans for the area.
Primary concerns were traffic and parking, with citizens asking to know about traffic studies and how parking would affect surrounding neighborhoods. Building massing seemed to worry some and the residential property owners were close to unanimous in wanting to keep new buildings to two stories. Ideas flowed like wanting "buildings to be separated with landscaping to avoid walled-in corridors" and wondering if they could be set back from the sidewalks.
As Young Lind explained, this plan will focus on design standards for the Winchester corridor and not a specific project, but many of the audience members, aware that a complex was being designed for senior citizens where Winchester Hardware once stood (including a number of parcels behind and north of it) felt that traffic and parking concerns could be strong issues.
Already approved is a single story retail development on the property where A&W Root Beer once stood.
The meeting focused on design concepts and some expressed concern that if there was no variation in the architectural design, the area would have a "sameness". About half the audience seemed to favor some differences in design and repeated they didn't want a "Santana Row" look.
A hearing will be schedule with the city's planning commission to further consider the plans for the area.
