Sacramento General Plan Update
Designed as WRT/Solomon ETC, 2012
John Ellis Urban Designer with Steve Hammond, Swapnil Patil.
The Sacramento General Plan Update involved urban design guidelines for the development potential for a range of districts and neighborhoods across the City of Sacramento. The illustrations showed the urban forms for a variety of conditions including urban infill in Downtown; the urban repair of fragmented areas; high, medium and low-density commercial districts; transit-oriented and freeway oriented sites.
Illustrations showed recommended street and block patterns, the integration of Light Rail, and a range of building typologies appropriate to each district or neighborhood.
Downtown showing new high-rise residential and office towers.
High density mixed-use district showing new stacked flats, townhouses and low-rise commercial buildings next to a new light rail station.
Regional Commercial Center showing replacing surface retail parking with structured garages and new street-fronting retail along the main boulevard.
Commercial low density district showing new retail buildings defining the street intersection and new low-rise office buildings.
Transit-oriented medium density neighborhood with a range of housing types within five minutes walking distance of the light rail station.
Inner suburban mixed-use corridor showing new mixed-use buildings along the corridor and light rail line.
Low density transit neighborhood with a mix of housing types and a new street layout focused on the station.
Low density infill sites showing a range of new development including housing.
Freeway related sites showing campus type layouts related to the scale of the freeway 1.
Freeway related sites 2.