THE PLAN
What is the purpose of the Downtown Napa Specific Plan?
The Downtown Napa Specific Plan will guide the City of Napa in its planning efforts to create a more inclusive and vibrant Downtown core. The purpose of the Downtown Napa Specific Plan is to craft a vision and steps to improve the public and private realm in the Downtown core of Napa. This Specific Plan will create detailed policies, design guidelines and development standards to steer future public and private realm improvements in the Planning Area. See the following map for the planning area boundaries.
What is a Specific Plan?
A specific plan is a policy and regulatory tool used by local governments in the State of California as a complement to a General Plan. Specific plans implement a city or county's General Plan through the development of policies, programs and regulations for a localized area and in greater detail.
A Specific Plan must address, at the minimum, land use, transportation and circulation, utilities and infrastructure, public facilities, development standards, and implementation and financing. Once adopted, the Downtown Napa Specific Plan will guide all new development in the Planning Area both in the public and private realms.
