In March, the Community Development Department hosted a Community Meeting, offering an overview of the Objective Design Standards and inviting public input on architectural preferences.

Staff and City Consultants presented a comprehensive overview, showcasing diverse architectural styles found throughout our city. Attendees had the opportunity to provide feedback through a survey.

Members of the public who were unable to attend the March community meeting can share their architectural preferences by following a few simple steps.

1. Review the Presentation 
2. Provide feedback by taking the short survey

About Residential Objective Design Standards

The City is in the process of developing an updated and expanded set of objective design standards for residential development. The intent of this effort is to address recent changes in State law that seek to streamline and increase housing production, focused on making approval processes more routine and predictable for those developing housing. A key component of several of these new laws is continuing to place limitations on discretionary review processes, placing an increased emphasis on objective design and development standards as the primary criteria for project approval or denial. The standards will provide a basis for review and approval of residential projects based on objective, measurable, and verifiable design criteria that seek to ensure new residential development is attractive, compatible, appropriately scaled, and visually harmonious with existing neighborhoods and environments within Brentwood.

The City held an initial Community Meeting on March 27, 2024 to provide the public with an overview of what the objective design standards will potentially look like and gather input on the architectural preferences.  Staff and the City's consultant made a Community Meeting Presentation to introduce various architectural styles seen throughout the city. In addition, an interactive community survey was held. The Community Survey has now been expanded to allow those who could not attend to provide input on architectural styles they would like to see.