Suite of Resources for Objective Design Standards

ABAG’s Regional Housing Technical Assistance Program has developed the following resources to help planning staff develop or refine objective design standards for multi-family residential and mixed-use projects:

• An Objective Design Standards Handbook - including the full Handbook in PDF format, and the InDesign files, Word files and image files for each section of the Handbook as separate downloads.
• A template PowerPoint presentation.
• A staff report template.
• Webinar video and slide deck to learn more about the materials and how to create or update objective standards.

This is an integrated catalog of Senate Bill 9 (SB 9) standards which are intended to be customized for local jurisdiction use. For ease of understanding, the standards are presented as a comprehensive model ordinance. However, it is anticipated that jurisdictions will use and adjust parts of these standards, rather than adopt the “model ordinance” wholesale.