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The West Village - a dynamic mixed-use community providing opportunities for students, faculty and staff to live locally and participate fully in the life of the campus.
Update March 2008: West Village Retail Survey
In an effort to better understand the retail needs of the prospective residents, we invite you to participate in a survey regarding retail needs in West Village.
The survey should take less than 3-minutes to complete. Faculty and Staff respondents qualify to win one of two $50 gift certificates to the UC Davis Bookstore--just fill-in your name and contact information at the bottom of the survey to qualify for the drawing. Please respond before Sunday, April 20th, 2008.
The survey has been developed by a group of Davis Honors Challenge students, working in collaboration with the university project managers and the developers for the West Village project. Your feedback will be vital in creating a successful and vibrant retail square in West Village.
The West Village Master Plan Document
In November of 2003, the UC Regents approved the master plan for an on-campus residential community for UC Davis faculty, staff and students.
The West Village Implementation Plan
In November of 2006, the UC Regents approved the West Village Implementation Plan as the detailed design framework for the development of West Village. The Implementation Plan builds upon the village character described in the Neighborhood Master Plan.
The West Village Implementation Plan
• Part I (Adobe PDF - file size: 16MB)
• Part II (Adobe PDF - file size: 12MB)
• Part III (Adobe PDF - file size: 10MB)
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Three main principles - Housing Affordability, Environmental Responsiveness and Quality of Place - are rigorously applied at the regional, site, and building scale:
Housing Affordability - by building affordable housing on University land, West Village provides a unique opportunity to attract and retain the highest quality faculty and staff to UC Davis. Located within easy biking distance to the core campus and downtown Davis, West Village is designed to contribute to the vitality of the University and the Davis community, reduce regional traffic on roads and highways, and offer high quality design.
Environmental Responsiveness - promote site and building designs that are adapted specifically to the local climate. This design strategy inherently supports energy and water conservation at every scale. Specific features include:
- Landscape drainage swales, basins, innovative street sections and building configurations that are designed to detain storm water runoff on site
- An open space buffer that promotes new habitat opportunities
- Multiple bicycle and pedestrian paths to the village square, as well as convenient transit connections to campus and the Davis community that minimize auto use by all residents
- Open space corridors, courtyards, and gardens between buildings to help channel cooling breezes
- Buildings positioned to optimize cooling through cross ventilation and shading devices designed to limit solar gain
- Building designs maximize natural light; and, therefore, require less energy to operate
- A neighborhood village center that supports its residents without relying on daily car use.
Quality of Place - create a network of connected open areas that foster outdoor interaction and recreation. Each of these parks, fields, courtyards, gardens and agricultural buffers relates to particular building patterns that define four distinct precincts. Specific features include:
- The Village Square centered at the heart of the community – reinforced by key intersections of streets and pathways - will foster interaction among all residents of West Village
- A combination of services and amenities in the Square will encourage resident faculty, students and staff to live, work and play in the neighborhood
- Building courtyards and gardens to encourage socializing, passive recreation and informal learning spaces
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