Like so many California towns – from San Francisco to San Diego – Oxnard began as a railhead for the export of agricultural produce to markets in the East. Recruited ...
CNU-California Annual By-Design Charrette The CNU-CA hosts an annual By-Design charrette program that provide educational and membership outreach opportunities statewide. The charrette is designed to advise a city that requests ...
Local citizens led several events. We held the first charrette New Urbanism Film Festival on Saturday night at the local Plaza Theater with over 100 attendees. A pop-up studio space, ...
On Sunday, January 31, at 10:30 AM, approximately twenty CNU participants conducted a walking tour of Oxnard’s historic Downtown. Led by Gary Blum, Director of the Downtown Oxnard Merchants Association, ...
Based on dozens of interviews, research and in-field studies, the following SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis highlights several the key opportunities and challenges relevant to the revitalization and ...
Over the course of five days, based on community input, analysis and design studies, the Charrette Team outlined a vision for the future of the Downtown emphasizing a human-scale, pedestrian-oriented, ...
Rethink the Boulevard as a Public Space Existing Condition: Two very wide, fast vehicular lanes northbound and southbound, armored raised medians with Australian Paperbark trees, no on-street parking, and sidewalks ...
Greet Visitors with New 3rd St Gateway The Third Street bridge is perhaps Downtowns largest piece of infrastructure, providing much needed safety improvement and allowing the construction of the Oxnard ...
Define Gateways at 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th With Oxnard Boulevard finally under the City’s control, the strategy for using it as an effective conduit to bring increasing numbers of ...
A Street has always been the primary retail street of Downtown and is expected to remain so. In its early days it had the advantages of direct access from Five ...