Erin Fitzgibbons (2012-12-17)1
Daniel Fama
From:Erin Fitzgibbons
Sent:Monday, December 17, 2012 4:46 PM
To:Rafael Miranda
Cc:Daniel Fama; Steve Prosser; 'erin.fitzgibbons@ibigroup.com'
Subject:Research for Paul
Hi Rafael,
I've been working today on some research for Paul but not getting too far. He said to share with you if needed. I will also
continue this from IBI Group as work is slow there. My email there is erin.fitzgibbons@ibigroup.com and phone is
408.924.0811 - I'll call you in the PM on Tuesday.
Anyway- the short of the research is Paul is looking to find out how cities control a mix of businesses, especially in
downtown commercial districts. He said to start with Los Gatos - what they do is to make most uses approved by
conditional use permit, and then put language into their zoning code limiting the "overconcentration" of the use. However,
they don't have a metric for what defines "overconcentration." The planner I spoke to said that they will create a map for
planning commission and then they just look at the map to see if it seems like it's an overconcentration.
I know form based code can be used to do this to some degree, however I'm not so sure that's a mechanism that would
be explored in Campbell. Do you know of any other cities that have controlled the mix of their uses?
Thanks,
Erin
Erin Fitzgibbons, LEED AP
City of Campbell | Community Development Department
erinf@cityofcampbell.com (408)866-2144