GENERAL PLAN GOALS AND POLICIES
LAND USE AND TRANSPORATION CHAPTER
General Plan Goal LT-4: An Attractive Community - Ensure that all areas of the city are attractive, and that the city’s image is enhanced by following policies and principles of good urban design while valued elements of the community fabric are preserved.
Policy LT-4.1: Preserve and enhance an attractive community, with a positive image, a sense of place, landscaping, and a human scale.
Policy LT-4.2: Encourage nodes of interest and activity, public open spaces, well-planned development, mixed-use projects, signature commercial uses, and buildings and other desirable uses, locations, and physical attractions.
GOAL LT-7 Diverse Housing Opportunities - Ensure the availability of ownership and rental housing options with a variety of dwelling types, sizes, and densities that contribute positively to the surrounding area and the health of the community.
Policy LT-7.1: In addition to more traditional forms of housing (single-family detached, townhouses, garden apartments, and shared corridor multi-family housing), support alternative housing types including co-housing, single-room occupancy units, live/workspaces, transitional housing, assisted living, and other types that may become necessary and appropriate to serve a changing population.
Policy LT-7.2: Determine the appropriate residential density for a site by evaluating the site planning opportunities and proximity of services (such as transportation, open space, jobs, and supporting commercial and public uses).
Policy LT-7.3: Encourage the development of housing options with the goal that the majority of housing is owner-occupied.
GOAL LT-8 Options for Healthy Living – Create a city development pattern and improve the city’s infrastructure in order to maximize healthy choices for all ages, including physical activity, use of the outdoors, and access to fresh food.
Policy LT-8.4: Promote compact, mixed-use, and transit-oriented development in appropriate neighborhoods to provide opportunities for walking and biking as an alternative to auto trips.
Goal LT-11: Supportive Economic Development Environment - Facilitate an economic development environment that supports a wide variety of businesses and promotes a strong economy within existing environmental, social, fiscal, and land use constraints.
Policy LT-11.2: Support a full spectrum of conveniently located commercial, mixed-use, public, and quasi-public uses that add to the positive image of the community.
Policy LT-11.3: Promote business opportunities and business retention in Sunnyvale.
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Goal LT-12: A Balanced Economic Base - Develop a balanced economic base that can resist downturns of any one industry and provides revenue for City services.
Policy LT-12.3: Support a variety of land and building ownership forms, including business condominiums, planned developments, and more traditional single-owner developments.
Policy LT-12.5: Encourage land uses that generate revenue while preserving a balance with other community needs, such as housing.
GOAL LT-14: Special and Unique Land Uses to Create a Diverse and Complete Community - Provide land use and design guidance so that special and unique areas and land uses can fulfill their distinctive purposes and provide a diverse and complete community fabric.
Policy LT-14.8: Ensure that development projects provide appropriate improvements or resources to meet the City’s future infrastructure and facility needs, and provide development incentives that result in community benefits and enhance the quality of life for residents and workers.
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