City of Rohnert Park

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This page is dedicated to all things related to Station Avenue. You can find meetings, news & updates, plan details, and more! We hope you find this page to be useful and if you have any questions feel free to reach out!
Contact Information:
Planning Department: [email protected]
Jeffrey Beiswenger - Planning Manager: [email protected]
Call for more information: (707) 588-2236

News feed​ - Updated For April 2019

Design Review Board Approval!

The Rohnert Park General Plan designates the Station Avenue site for Mixed-Use. The site is located within the Station Center Planned Development (P-D) Zoning district and the Downtown District Amenity Zone Form-Based Code Overlay (DDAZ FBC Overlay). Because the project is located within the Station Center P-D and proposes new development in excess of 2,000 square feet, the DDAZ FBC Overlay provisions, contained in Chapter 17.06, Article XIII of the Rohnert Park Municipal Code, apply to the project. This includes the requirement that the project receive Design Review approval from the Downtown Design Review Board.
 As of April 16th, 2019 plans for Station Avenue were approved by the Design Review Board! Highlights of the approved plans include:

• Approximately 140,000 square feet of retail and 130,000 square feet of office distributed within fifteen buildings ranging from one to three stories.

• An Urban-Style street grid. To achieve a transit-oriented and mobility-supporting development pattern, the project introduces a compact, orthogonal grid of streets that extend across the site.

• The project incorporates open space through the inclusion of five different civic spaces. The main space being Station Square, a community plaza meant to support events and community gatherings throughout the year. 

• The use of high quality materials to elevate the projects design and create a visually appealing facade. 

• Station Avenue will feature numerous facilities to encourage walking and biking. A few of which include mid building passageways for pedestrians, bike racks and bike sharing stations, and pedestrian only areas. 

• A whole host of trees, shrubs, and groundcover to provide shade and soften the site's and building's hard surfaces and edges. Drought tolerant native California species will be used to do this.

• Sustainable development features such as the use of recycled water, compliance with CalGreen for waste reduction/water and energy efficiency, EV Charging stations, ride-share service opportunities, and solar ready rooftops. 

The plans are consistent with General Plan goals and community driven ideas for the City. A few images of the facade for reference include:

Demolition Kick Off

Demolition has begun on the State Farm Site! It is expected to continue till the end of February where grading and building can begin. You will see trees being taken down and the building itself removed. The developer has ambitious goals so this process should occur quickly and development will begin shortly after plan approval by the Design Review Board . Demolition from early February can be seen in the image below. 

Phase I of Station Avenue Begins! 

With City Council's approval of the Final Development Plan, and approval of Demolition Permits, Laulima Development will begin to remove the old State Farm site. Starting with tree removal, you can expect to see trees being removed from mid-December to the end of February. All trees removed are going to be re-purposed and replaced on site. 
The project will occur in three phases over the next few years, but Phase I is expected to be completed by Fall of 2020. The image below shows the three Phases occurring over then next few years. Phase I is all unlabeled areas. Phase 2 is outlined in orange and Phase 3 is outlined in red. 

Station Avenue Project Details

The Station Avenue project is located within the Central Rohnert Park Priority Development Area. The 32 acre site includes the former State Farm Campus and the City's existing Corporation Yard, and the Rohnert Park SMART station is adjacent to the project on the east side. A Preliminary Development Plan for the project was approved by the City in 2016. After a change in ownership and project name, an application by Laulima Development for a Final Development Plan was submitted in January 2017.

The project is anticipated to have 460 apartments, row houses, and townhomes, 130,000 square feet of retail, 120,000 square feet of office, and a 156 room hotel. A brewery is planned as part of the retail component. The ground-level retail will be concentrated on a new east-west street running from State Farm Drive and terminating a large 'station' building. There will also be retail facing a newly improved State Farm Drive and Rohnert Park Expressway. An active plaza and event lawn are planned in front of the station building, while the mixed use buildings surrounding this plaza will generally have retail on the ground floor, office on the second level, and ample on-street parking is scattered throughout the development. The row houses and townhouses are concentrated on the southern half of the project site, with a 1.1 acre neighborhood park also planned adjacent to Enterprise Drive.

An Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was prepared for the Central Rohnert Park Priority Development Area Plan in 2016. Environmental studies are underway to ascertain this project's consistency with the existing EIR.

Additional information and updates pertaining to the project can be found on the applicant's project website at www.stationaverp.com

Past Meetings and Documents on Station Avenue

City Council Architecture Study Session (6/26/2018) - Staff Report, Handout and Video
Planning Commission Study Session (7/12/2018) - Staff Report and Video
Parks & Recreation Commission Study Session (7/19/2018)- Staff Report and Video
Planning Commission Study Session (7/26/2018) - Staff Report and Video
Parks & Recreation Commission (8/6/2018) - Staff Report and Video
Planning Commission Study Session (8/8/2018) - Staff Report and Video
Planning Commission Study Session (8/15/18) - Staff Report and Video
Planning Commission Study Session (8/22/2018) - Staff Report and Video
Planning Commission Study Session (9/27/2018) - Staff Report and Video
City Council Project Update (10/9/2018) - Staff Report and Video
Planning Commission Study Session (10/15/2018) - Staff Report and Video
Planning Commission Meeting (10/25/2018)- Staff Report and Video
City Council Meeting (11/13/18) - Staff Report and Video
Design Review Board Meeting (4/16/18) - Staff Report and Video 

Future Meetings​​ (click here)
 Others: TBD

Relevent Pages and Documents:
Central Rohnert Park PDA
Central Rohnert Park Draft EIR
Central Rohnert Park Draft EIR -Appendix A-H
Central Rohnert Park Final EIR

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