Senior Associate Tony Perez of Berkeley-based Opticos Design Inc., which was hired to prepare the standards, says creating objective design standards for Santa Barbara was easy because of all the ...

Napa’s planning commission is beginning to develop objective design standards, a set of building requirements municipalities need to use to approve residential development projects that are supposed ...

The city is developing Objective Design and Development Standards to bring developers more certainty in the process, while also protecting Santa Barbara’s quality of life and character. “It’s a very ...

For a project to be successful, all levels of management, along with project team members, must have clearly defined objectives. According to Robert Youker, a consultant in project management, these ...