Purpose

The purpose of the Fountain Valley Crossings Specific Plan will be to provide a policy and zoning framework that will allow for additional land-uses in the project area.

The city’s goal is to encourage current and future property owners to invest in their property through added land-use flexibility. This added value will not only allow property owners and businesses to continue to operate as they do today, but will also provide a design in which a activity center district can be created through private investment.

The Draft Fountain Valley Crossings Specific Plan, includes a vision, development regulations, streetscape designs, public space improvements, and a range of implementation measures that will foster the comprehensive re-use and reinvestment in properties in the specific plan area in the future. The specific plan will use a form-based code to incorporate these elements. A form-based code is a land development regulation that fosters predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical form (rather than separation of uses) as the organizing principle for the code. A form-based code is a regulation, not a mere guideline, adopted into city law.
  
The project will include the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to identify potential impacts of change and mitigation measures to reduce those impacts.