{"id":1475,"date":"2007-11-08T05:22:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T12:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2007-11-08T08:22:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T15:22:33","slug":"city-council-thumbs-up-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1475","title":{"rendered":"City Council Thumbs Up Downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have to admit that there is something frightening about allowing the Carlsbad City Council to make any decisions related to &#8220;design&#8221; or &#8220;architecture.&#8221; That said, in a vote of 3-0 the Carlsbad City Council Tuesday night approved a revised master plan and and design guidelines changes to Carlsbad&#8217;s Village, according to an article in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20071108-9999-1mi8carls.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Deigo Union Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Councilmen <strong>Matt Hall<\/strong> and <strong>Mark Packard<\/strong> did not vote because they own property in the Village.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The council voted, instead, to allow building heights of 45 feet if at least 50 percent of a roof is sloped. . . The council also voted to allow commercial buildings in much of the redevelopment area to be built up to the sidewalks, as long as their upper floors are tiered back. But the council is requiring the first floor of residential buildings to be set back from sidewalks an average of 10 feet. . . . The council also . . . approved a compromise to allow up to 35 [residential] units per acre [previously it had been 23].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only thing the council rejected (thankfully) was a proposal let developers put in 15 percent fewer parking spaces &#8220;if their projects gave incentives to use public transportation&#8221; whatever that means.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20071108-9999-1mi8carls.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have to admit that there is something frightening about allowing the Carlsbad City Council to make any decisions related to &#8220;design&#8221; or &#8220;architecture.&#8221; That said, in a vote of 3-0 the Carlsbad City Council Tuesday night approved a revised master plan and and design guidelines changes to Carlsbad&#8217;s Village, according to an article in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}