PHILOSOPHY & GOALS

• Create and preserve a sense of uniqueness, attractiveness, history, culture, and social diversity including public gathering places and a strong sense of place.
• Develop distinctive design standards and invest in design excellence to: create inspiring and memorable places; emphasize the appearance and qualities of the public realm; create streetscapes, pathways and public spaces of beauty, interest and functional benefit to pedestrians.
• Protect and enhance the natural environment and increase the quality of life. The neighborhood design should have compact and multi-dimensional land use patterns that ensure a mix of uses, minimize the impact of cars, promote walking, bicycling and provide access to employment, education, recreation, entertainment, shopping and services.
• Create an appropriately scaled and economically healthy neighborhood center. Include a wide range of commercial, residential, cultural, civic and recreational uses. Neighborhood centers should contain businesses that serve the daily needs of nearby residents.
• Encourage community development in mixed use and compact pedestrian oriented forms to accommodate all income levels and lifestyles.
• Promote jobs that match the skills of existing and future residents through provision of housing opportunities and choices. Improve the skills of all individuals through the Health and Wellness Center. Insure the availability of affordable transportation through transit ready design and housing commensurate with income level.
• Foster a compact form facilitated by "form-based planning" resulting in efficiencies in major infrastructure investment and advances the opportunities to provide socially diverse housing. Increase intensification, supply and range of housing to accommodate a skilled labor force.
• Retain and recruit a skilled and motivated workforce to ensure economic stability into the future by providing attainable housing opportunities. To advance this mission River Oaks, in conjunction with local non-profit housing entities, will develop revenue streams for financial assistance and/or dedicated shelter opportunities focused on assisting low, moderate, and workforce home rentals and purchases.
• Encourage diverse informal centers of creativity, learning and interaction.
• Focus Community design on a manner of life and civic culture that embraces and fosters life long learning. This shall take place in traditional educational institutions as well as diverse venues such as restaurants, arts and cultural locations. This includes public and private places of exceptional design and open spaces that inspire and connect with the natural environment through features that spark creativity.
• Establish strategic alliances with higher learning institutions (Cuesta College) and business and community associations (Paso Robles Chamber of Commerce, Twin Cities Hospital, Mee Memorial Hospital, Paso Robles Youth Sports Foundation, Main Street, Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance, San Luis Obispo County Visitors & Conference Bureau).
• Promote the community as a center of high value agriculture and agritourism: showcase the Paso Robles wine appellation and industry; promote viticulture investment, tasting, marketing & sales and end-destination attractions; develop and promote year-round special events highlighting viticulture and olive oil.
• Introduce to the community, an ideal setting for emergence and convergence of value added health, wellness and fitness services: encourage public/private partnerships to develop integrated Health & Wellness and Fitness Centers as end-destination and visitor attractions; showcase natural hot springs as a unique community asset and a cornerstone to health and wellness destination.
• Identify business clusters that complement spa facilities which attract major events. Expand and diversify lodging accommodations to support tourism and corporate retreats.
• Integrate River Oaks: The Next Chapter (TNC) with the existing River Oaks development with seamless transitions and continuity of character.