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A Placemaking Journal

National City, California

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PlaceMaker Howard Blackson led a downtown Specific Plan, Urban Design standards and project Environmental Impact Report for National City’s Redevelopment authority. The plan and EIR was adopted by the City Council in February 2005 after a two-year process. The project’s baseline operating system utilized the Form-Based Code approach to place the correct building intensity to the correct street and open space typologies.

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More urban streets, National City Boulevard and 8th Street, enabled more urban buildings, streetscapes and plazas, while less urban neighborhood streets enabled neighborhood-scaled buildings, streetscapes and parks. New plazas, streetscapes, civic institutions and one mixed-use building have been built under the code which is considered a success.

In 2005, the code won the Helen Putnam Award Honorable Mention by the League of California Cities for Most Effective Advocacy, Intergovernmental Relations and Regional Cooperation, 2005.

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