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EPS led a multidisciplinary team in preparing a comprehensive housing strategy to address current and future housing needs in the City of Vacaville. EPS assessed the City’s socioeconomic context and residential market dynamics, and engaged the City and community for input. The City Council unanimously approved the housing strategy in June 2022.Housing demand in the city has continued to outpace supply over the last several decades and is expected to remain strong. The EPS team prepared a proposed housing strategy to meet three overarching goals: encourage a diversity of housing choices; address regulatory and financial barriers to needed housing production; and implement new initiatives and programs to achieve housing needs. The goals and associated strategies and implementation actions guide the City in proactively and effectively addressing identified housing needs over the next decade.

Since 2019 EPS has provided a variety of consulting services to the City of Westminster to support the redevelopment of a 1.2 million square feet enclosed and struggling shopping mall into a high-density, mixed-use neighborhood. Approved in November 2022, the Westminster Mall Specific Plan provides a blueprint for converting this strategic 98-acre site adjacent to the San Diego Freeway (405) in a manner that supports the City’s housing, civic, and economic development goals. The Plan was awarded the 2023 “Economic Planning & Development Award of Excellence” from the American Planning Association Orange Section.