The Quarry
Pacifica, California
Action Outline
- Conceptual Town Plan at request of key stakeholders
- Design of Traditional Town Plan for abandoned quarry site
- Inclusion of diverse housing and commercial building typologies
- Development of emergent Town Center for greater Pacifica
The Quarry site has been in play for many years. We have worked with it on a number of occasions as well as with surrounding parcels that have since been developed.
This proposal was offered as a distinctive counterpoint to several Big Box proposals that were being developed. It was intended to redirect the dialogue towards town making and away from simple monoculture development equations.
Vision Outline
- An assembly of narrow, human friendly streets in the scale and nature of traditional coastal towns.
- Subdivision of developable properties such that "small lot" development and local ownership is encouraged.
- Intensity strata that reflect clear understandings of center and periphery with genuine focus on the creation of a traditional Main Street.
- Diversity of housing types that reflect their physical relation to both the center and the edge.
- Preservation of key natural features while integrating those features into a carefully woven urban fabric.
- Development of the hard quarry site as a public space, outdoor amphitheater and gateway to the natural areas remaining on the point.
