Civic Center Master Design Guidelines

In August 2004, the County of Marin retained the services of Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey (RHAA), landscape architects and environmental planners, to lead the process of creating Master Design Guidelines for the entire 138-acre Civic Center campus, including the Frank Lloyd Wright Civic Center building, the Marin Center, and other County facilities. RHAA’s project team included architects Mark Cavagnero Associates; traffic and parking engineers Whitlock & Weinberger Transportation Inc.; lighting designers Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design; and signage designer Kate Keating Associates.

These guidelines are intended to provide a standard for future development and the criteria necessary to protect the architectural character of the site, preserve historic structures and reduce adverse visual effects while relating any new development to the historic context.

The guidelines ensure that future projects in the historic part of the campus will meet the Secretary of the Interior Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties and build on the design principles set out by Frank Lloyd Wright. These guidelines also suggest that all future development be designed sustainably in accordance with green building practices.

This is an index to the Marin County Civic Center Master Design Guidelines created as a result of that project: