Project Information

The Fulton Corridor Specific Plan will occur in the following six phases:  
 

1. Discovery.  In this phase, the Consultant team learns everything about the Specific Plan area, including its physical, economic, regulatory, and political aspects through in-field analysis, review of existing regulatory documents, and meeting with the City’s various departments, agencies, and stakeholders.  The information is compiled into several reports, posters, and PowerPoint presentations, and presented to the Fulton Corridor Specific Plan Community Advisory Committee (FCSPCAC) and the community during several public meetings and workshops.  Click here to see schedule of meetings.

   This phase will conclude in early May 2010.

2. Visioning and Design Workshop.  In this phase the information and input received during the previous Discovery phase is translated into physical form and draft policy recommendations during a week-long Visioning and Design Workshop. 

   The Visioning and Design Workshop process is a method of public participation that brings all interested parties (municipal officials, developers, business owners, and community members) together for a series of days in which everyone with a stake or interest of any kind participates directly with the design team to develop and review ideas about the project at hand.  The process is completely interactive and sees each of the plan’s components developed simultaneously in response to issues and needs posed by its various participants.  City Staff are involved throughout and help facilitate input from a person or group that needs to be heard on a particular subject.  In this way, the 'feedback' loops are ongoing and immediate, keeping unproductive or inappropriate results from being developed.  At the end of each day, the design team summarizes what the Design Team, City Staff and the participants studied, achieved, and decided upon that day for the community's review and comment. 

   The Visioning and Design Workshop will occur September 27 – October 2, 2010.

3. ”Unpacking”.  The intent of this phase is to compile, describe, and distill the various strategies, outlines, illustrated ideas, methods, desired outcomes, codes, and implementation measures produced during the Visioning and Design Workshop, refine them as necessary and provide all of the materials for review by the City, the DNCAC, and the public.  This Phase focuses on producing any refinements to any of the diagrams, drawings, memos, etc., that will be used in the Specific Plan document.  The Consultant presents to the FCSPCAC and DNCPCAC the vision, policy recommendations, and implementation measures that were generated at the Charrettes.  The CACs gives their final input prior to the consultant team beginning the Downtown Neighborhoods Community Plan document.  .  Click here to see schedule of meetings.

   “Unpacking” will occur in October, 2010.

4. Specific Plan Preparation.  In this phase, the Specific Plan document is compiled through the generation of several successive drafts.  The Specific Plan will include all elements required by California State Law and will include:
   • The Foundations of our Community Vision
   • Community Form and Character
   • Transportation and Mobility
   • Implementation and Economics
   • Form-Based Code

   The Consultant team will begin working on the Fulton Corridor Specific Plan document in November 2010 and will have a first draft ready for review by the Community Advisor Committee in early 2011.

5. Environmental Review.  This phase is devoted to the generation of the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in order to address the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), evaluating the potential environmental impacts of the combined Community Plan/Specific Plan/Neighborhood Code project.

   The Notice of Preparation is scheduled to occur in February 2011 with the Public Review Draft ready for review in October 2011. 

6. Public Hearings and Plan Adoption.  This phase is devoted to navigating the final Community Plan and EIR/EIS through the public hearing and adoption process and is comprised of a series of workshops and hearings with the DNCAC, the Planning Commission, the Historic Preservation Commission, and the City Council.  The final product is an adopted Community Plan and EIR/EIS.

   The Adoption process is scheduled to begin in March 2012 with final adoption of the Fulton Corridor Specific Plan occurring in June 2012.