Claremont City Releases Draft Village South Specific Plan

Press release from the City of Claremont:

November 16, 2020

The City of Claremont released the Village South Specific Plan (VSSP) on November 16, 2020 on the City’s website (www.claremontca.org/VSSP). The VSSP and related Environmental Impact Report will be reviewed through the City’s commission process over the next few months with a final decision by the City Council by June 2021. Staff anticipates the Draft EIR will be released November 30, 2020 with a 45-day public comment period.

The Draft Plan was developed with community input over the course of the last three years and was prepared to guide future land use and shape new sustainable, mixed use, transit-oriented development within the Village South Plan Area.

The VSSP incorporates a clear and illustrated vision for the future of Village South, specific goals and guiding principles, and anticipated results, with objective design and development standards, design guidelines, design review metrics, and implementation strategies and policies, to predictably implement a community-based vision of the future of this important southerly approach to and further expansion of Claremont’s historic Village.

The plan area is immediately south of Claremont’s original Village. The entire plan area is approximately 24 acres, of which 17.4 acres is privately-owned parcels and the balance is the public rights-of-way of Indian Hill Boulevard, Arrow Highway, Bucknell Avenue, Santa Fe Street, and Green Street adjacent to the parcels within the plan area.

This press release was produced by the City of Claremont. The views expressed here are the author’s own.