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Santa Clara Transit Area Plan

DESCRIPTION The Santa Clara Transit Area Study, initiated in Fall 2001 and funded by a grant from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, examined existing conditions and identified opportunities for new and in-fill development and redevelopment around the historic train depot and future BART Station in order to […]

ABAG Smart Growth

DESCRIPTION The Smart Growth Strategy Place Types model was part of a regional planning effort intended to achieve support among public officials, civic leaders, and stakeholder organizations for a preferred land use pattern informing how the Bay Area could grow over the next 20 years. The […]

North Bayshore Precise Plan

DESCRIPTION VMWP is collaborating with Raimi + Associates on overhauling the zoning and regulatory structure of Mountain View to allow the construction of up to 10,000 housing units in a mixed-use neighborhood in the North Bayshore area. VMWP is spearheading the urban design, block structure, street […]

ArtWay Place

DESCRIPTION ArtWay Place is a 6 acre, 351 unit urban infill development that is just minutes away from Downtown Denver via the new A-Line light rail train (with a station located immediately adjacent to the site.) The site is also bounded by the 303 ArtWay, a […]

West Letterman Development Study

DESCRIPTION Working with TransAct, VMWP was charged to identify and evaluate potential development alternatives to enrich the historic Letterman and Thornburgh Districts of the Presidio through suitable adaptive reuse, enhanced retail amenities, “third place” spaces for social interaction, transportation management, and sustainable infrastructure, to define critical […]

East Palo Alto General Plan

DESCRIPTION VMWP’s work on the East Palo Alto General Plan includes urban design and housing direction and the development of the Westside Community Plan for the area of East Palo Alto west of US-101. The Urban Design chapter of the General Plan will focus on strengthening […]

Yale Place TOD

DESCRIPTION The Yale TOD Master Plan, Yale Place, presents a unique suburban infill site where a walkable, mixed-use neighborhood adjacent to the Yale Station light rail stop will be created. The project area consists of the 10 acres west of highway I-25 and north of Yale […]

Compton Streetscape & Guidelines

DESCRIPTION The Compton Boulevard Streetscape Master Plan and Compton Urban Design Guidelines are two projects that work together to create a new vision for Downtown Compton and major streets and nodes through out the city. The Compton Urban Design Guidelines sets up a framework for development […]

10th & Sheridan Station TOD Master Plan

DESCRIPTION The 10th and Sheridan TOD Master Plan is a comprehensive, phased, redevelopment of the outmoded Jody Apartments affordable housing site and surrounding properties into an integrated 3.64 acre mixed use, pedestrian oriented community that is adjacent to the 10th and Sheridan light rail stop and […]

Arvada Transit Village & Downtown Plan

DESCRIPTION The Arvada Transit Village and Downtown Revitalization Plan outlines a strategy for revitalizing the Olde Town area, developing a new 8-acre multi-modal transit center (bus and train) as well as identifying housing and residential infill opportunities surrounding the transit center site. One of these opportunities […]

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