Go BackPasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: Draft
16/11/1987103-page draft of the 16-Nov-1987 project report in three chapters. Its chapter and subchapter titles are different but the contents are similar and include extensive editing on text and suggestions on language tone. It is organized as follows: Chapter 1) Intent of the Ordinance: 1.1 Legal Status; 1.2 Observations: The Character of Pasadena; 1.3 Legislative Commentary; 1.4 The Coherence of the Neighborhood. Chapter 2) Application Procedure: 2.1 Legal Status; 2.2 Application Procedure; 2.3 Application Forms; 2.4 The Layout Process. Chapter 3) Standards: 3.1 Legal Status; 3.2 Standards for Density and Open Space; 3.3 Design Standards.
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The Unfolding of Public Space and Gardens as Positive Space
Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped just as a room is shaped. It has a contained character, it is bounded by walls, fences, natural vegetation, enclosure of some kind. It looks into other positive spaces, some larger, some ...
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The Layout Process of Buildings on the Land - Visualization at Full Scale on Site
Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...
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The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process
In architecture, as in other things, the "right" sequence is of vital importance. It is a generative sequence of progressive differentiations, which allow space to unfold in the right order. Each differentiation acts on the product of the previous ...
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: Re: Memorandum of consultant's disagreements about standards. Detailed review of three main areas of disagreement between the consultants and of the lack of agreement to date. Asking for the involvement of the Task Force in the discussions toward solutions
16/11/1987
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: RE: Clarification of the latest C.E.S./D.S.A. draft of standards. Presenting various points of discussion for the upcoming meeting with the Task Force in hope of finding solutions to the areas of consultant disagreements; prepared for facilitating the discussion. Draft included
02/12/1987
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing
06/08/1987
159-page draft of the 16-Nov-1987 project report in two parts. Part One: Philosophy and Intent, with the following four chapters, 1) Intent of the Ordinance; 2) The Coherence of the Neighborhood; 3) Examples of Individual Projects; 4) Density. Part Two: ...
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: Section Two: Residential Design Standards
20/11/1987
38 pages of the “Section Two: Residential Design Standards” in which the following design aspects are explained: 1. Open space standards in which, tables with minimum required areas for surface parking, parking with dwelling over, fully, and partially subterranean parking ...
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: Draft prepared by the Center for Environmental Structure
10/10/1987
178-page draft organized in four chapters with a Preface: Chapter 1) Intent of the Ordinance; Chapter 2) Use of the Ordinance (includes the layout process intended as a helpful guide to the applicant); Chapter 3) Ordinance Standards; Chapter 4) Examples.
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing
16/11/1987
138-page draft of the Pasadena Zoning Ordinance, which includes sequences of design which have been omitted from the submitted ordinance. The document is organized in four chapters: Chapter 1) Intent of the Ordinance, with three sections; Chapter 2) Ordinance Standards, ...
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: Pasadena Design Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing - A City of Gardens
25/04/1988
46-page final draft of the Ordinance submitted to the Pasadena Multi-Family Task Force. New zoning ordinance for the city’s multi-family housing areas that would permit high intensity development to continue in a way which is in keeping with Pasadena’s heritage. ...
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: Position Papers
01/01/1987
25-page collection of papers presenting the consultants’ initial solution positions after investigating the existing problems of the areas under study. The nine ‘position papers’ include: 1) Replacing current density measures with context-sensitive FAR; 2) Parking ratio; 3) Driveways; 4) Building ...
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: Comments on Manuscript of 10-Oct-1987 proposed standards
10/10/1987
Four pages with explanatory text on three of the sections of the proposed ordinance standards: 1. Section 3.2, open space standards; 2. Section 3.3. parking and driveway standards; 3. Section 3.4, architectural standards. One page lists some additional points to ...
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Pasadena Zoning Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: Introduction & ordinance background
01/09/1987
4 pages with a draft of an ‘Introduction’, of the sections on ‘Pasadena character’ and ‘Land use’; later revised and included in the proposed ordinance by the C.E.S. .