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Opticos Completes Successful 23rd Street Corridor Charrette

On Friday June 19th the City of Richmond completed a 5-day public visioning process, lead by Opticos Design, Inc., to establish the bold vision for the future of the 23rd Street and Macdonald Avenue corridors. This area, particularly south of Macdonald Avenue, provides one of the prime opportunities in the entire Bay Area for the long-term creation of a new, complete, high-intensity, urban neighborhood within walking distance to BART, not to mention Amtrak. The bold new vision will utilize the latest zoning reform tool, Form-Based Codes, to incentivize its implementation. Several primary goals of this vision are to reinforce the local, cultural identity along 23rd Street (over 30,000 people showed up this year for their annual Cinco de Mayo celebration) and to show the larger development community what opportunities exist within Richmond near the BART station and Macdonald Avenue as a result of this bold vision.

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