Specific Plans
Mr. Claiborne has developed a number of specific plans, usually in conjunction with an EIR, a process which allows proposed specific plan projects to be made self-mitigating.


Tower Theater

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Lennar Mare Island

 


East 14th Street, Mission Boulevard Corridor

Tower District Specific Plan and EIR: Developed for the City of Fresno, this Plan deals with historic preservation issues for one of that city's early streetcar suburbs.

Fairview Village Specific Plan and EIR: Prepared for a private developer, the Plan is for an approximately 360 acre residential subdivision, to be designed in conformance with the City's newly adopted neo-traditional community planning policies.

The Castro Valley CBD Specific Plan and EIR: This is the first of two Specific Plans, prepared for the Alameda County Community Development Agency, to address economic revitalization issues in the unincorporated western portion of the County. The Plan for the Castro Valley central business district includes a policy framework for transit oriented, mixed-use development adjacent to a new BART station along the extension line to Pleasanton and Dublin.

Lennar Mare Island: For five years, Mr. Claiborne was the planning consultant to the master developer of Mare Island, the former Naval Base in the City of Vallejo, California. He has prepared an amended and restated Specific Plan for the preservation and reuse of the historic naval shipyards and surrounding lands that comprise the Mare Island Specific Plan Area. As part of the Mare Island project, Mr. Claiborne has worked with noted Bay Area graphic designer Michael Manwaring to develop a comprehensive sign program tailored to the special requirements of the Historic District.

The Ashland, Cherryland Business Districts Specific Plan and EIR: The ACBD SP identifies priorities for the revitalization of two economically disadvantaged, unincorporated communities along a strip commercial highway corridor in western Alameda County. Primary goals of the Plan are greater utilization of existing transit infrastructure, rehabilitation of blighted apartment buildings and a major streetscape improvements program for the East 14th Street, Mission Boulevard highway right-of-way. As part of the implementation of the Plan, Mr. Claiborne helped establish a redevelopment plan area that now provides much of the funding for priority public improvement projects.