City of Sunnyvale

Over the past decade, the City of Sunnyvale has been undertaking a Downtown Improvement Program to re-establish and revitalize the City's original central area. The program has consisted of a number of City-adopted, interrelated planning and redevelopment activities, primarily including the Sunnyvale Downtown Specific Plan (adopted in 1993), associated Zoning Code provisions, the Murphy Avenue Design Guidelines (1994), and the Sunnyvale Downtown Redevelopment Plan (originally adopted in 1975; last amended in 1993).

The City is now proposing to update its Downtown Improvement Program in response to the changing marketplace and the City's experience in implementing the 1993 Downtown Specific Plan over the past approximately ten years. To provide a "blueprint" for the proposed update, the Sunnyvale City Council in April 2002 approved in concept a new City of Sunnyvale Downtown Design Plan which addresses an approximately 125-acre area of the downtown and calls for retaining the basic downtown revitalization concepts of the 1993 Downtown Specific Plan, but with various land use and development standard revisions, new downtown design guidelines, new circulation and parking recommendations, and revised streetscape design standards, all formulated to create and maintain "an enhanced, traditional downtown serving the community with variety of designations in a pedestrian-friendly environment.

In conformance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines (2002) section 15132, the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the proposed Sunnyvale Downtown Improvement Program Update consists of two volumes (1) March 2003 Draft EIR and (2) May 2003 Final EIR document, which incorporates the Draft EIR by reference and inclues responses to comments received by the Lead Agency (the City Sunnyvale) during the public review period on the Draft EIR, plus a set of revisions made to the Draft EIR in response to comments received during the public review period.