City Wide Design Guidelines

“One of the most pressing community design issues is the need to develop design policies and standards for use by the development community and City Officials.  There is general agreement that site planning, architecture and landscape architecture should be of high quality for both future development and modifications to existing development.  The Community Design Goals and Policies provide a framework to achieve quality and compatibility in the physical design of the City.  The design policies encourage a public/private dialogue whereby creative and innovative design solutions may be realized.  Detailed design guidelines for both residential and non-residential uses will also need to be formulated.”

These guidelines have been drafted in the hope they will be useful to those people engaged in the design, construction, review and approval of commercial, industrial and residential development in Temecula. They are intended as a reference point from which all persons involved in the development process can gain a common understanding of the minimum qualitative design expectations in Temecula.

The Temecula City-Wide Design Guidelines workbook is available for review at the Community Development Counter at City Hall, 43200 Business Park Drive, Temecula, CA, 951-694-6400, or you may view or print any or all of the sections from this page.

The Design Guidelines are in Adobe PDF  format. Please be sure you have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer before you try to access these files.

The sections have been broken into easily-downloadable files for your convenience. You may want to rotate the document in your Acrobat Reader in order to read it. You do not have to rotate the document if you are printing it out.

You can download the entire pdf document or you can download the chapters separately.

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