Gunnison Rising Master Plan
Gunnison, CO · 2020
Client: Gunnison Valley Properties
Location: Gunnison, CO
Year: 2020
CP Role: Lead consultant
Practice Area: Spatial Planning + Placemaking
Team: Alex Joyce, Development Strategy; Jamin Kimmell, Lead Code Writer
The Challenge
Gunnison Rising is a 633-acre community planned to build out over decades. Its standards had to allow for change, hold a high bar for design, and stay within what the market would build.
Our Approach
We started with agreement before code. Over nine months, Alex Joyce facilitated a core group of the mayor, city manager, planning directors, and university president, who settled the community's key features in a Concept Plan. We then wrote the standards from it, pairing form-based tools such as build-to lines and massing controls with 3D graphics, and tested each standard with pro forma modeling.
Outcome
Gunnison City Council adopted the planned unit development (PUD) standards unanimously in 2020.
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