Pacifica General Plan, LCP, and EIR

Dyett & Bhatia led the first comprehensive update of Pacifica’s General Plan and Local Coastal Program in nearly 30 years, and developed a new Specific Plan for Pacifica’s downtown, the Sharp Park neighborhood. The update framed a land use, housing, and transportation vision for this coastal Bay Area community with a focus on sustainability. The Sharp Park Specific Plan built upon the area’s significant opportunity for mixed-use buildings, new housing and higher intensity development to help the city address issues of housing affordability and create a center of gravity for the broader Pacifica community and visitors. Both plans and the D&B-prepared EIR were adopted unanimously by City Council in 2022.

General Plan policies were developed through extensive outreach, including online surveys, neighborhood workshops, and pop-up outreach, and sought to lever¬age coastal and open space assets for a visitor-based economic development strategy, provide opportunities for mixed-use redevelopment, biological resource protection, sea-level rise adaptation, and the future use of a former quarry site. To help visualize potential options for height and density changes in Sharp Park, D&B developed ‘existing’ and ‘proposed’ videos of renderings and views from a pedestrian’s point of view on a virtual ‘walk’ down Sharp Park’s main street.