Land Park is intended to be a full-service community in a manner consistent with goals and policies of the City and compatible with site characteristics. The primary goals of Land Park are designed to achieve the following:


  1. Update the City's long term vision for Land Park as the mixed use community, as set forth in the City's 1991 General Plan, by incorporating refinements designed to reflect evolving innovation in land use planning concepts.
  2. Provide a balanced mix of land uses, including residential neighborhoods; retail, office, service-related commercial and other non-residential employment generating land uses; and public/semi-public uses such as schools, parks and other civic oriented facilities.
  3. Anchor Land Park with a pedestrian-oriented centrally located City center that will include neighborhood serving retail, civic and cultural uses, a town common, a high school and a large community park all designed to create a distinctive focal point for Land Park and a social centerpiece for the surrounding neighborhoods.
  4. Establish a regional commercial corridor (including both retail and office uses) adjacent to the I-5 freeway that makes use of the visibility and prime freeway access provided by the Louise Avenue and Lathrop Road Interchanges while buffering the neighboring residential neighborhoods to the west from freeway-related impacts.
  5. Incorporate a mix of neighborhoods, organized around interior neighborhood parks and neighborhood K-8 schools.
  6. Create opportunities for a variety of marketable housing types available to households of differing incomes, including single family residential densities that are higher than those typically found elsewhere in Lathrop and that are designed to provide more efficient land use, more affordable housing without reducing quality of amenities, more efficient use of public infrastructure, and more environmentally sensitive development patterns.
  7. Link the Land Park neighborhoods to the City center, parks and schools as well as to each other through an interconnected system of pedestrian and bicycle pathways which encourage non-vehicular travel.
  8. Maximize both active and passive recreational opportunities through the creation of a comprehensive public park program that will include a linear park and open space system located adjacent to and providing access to the San Joaquin River, a large community park located adjacent to the high school site which will afford an opportunity for joint use, and neighborhood parks which are centrally located within each residential village in order to assure ease of access by residents.
  9. Provide shopping, services, entertainment and recreation such that those who live and work within Land Park will not have to travel outside the area for most routine or daily needs and City of Lathrop residents who live outside Land Park will be able to address more of their needs without traveling outside the Lathrop community.
  10. Generate positive fiscal benefits for the City resulting primarily from the regional commercial development adjacent to the I-5 corridor.
  11. Increase employment and retail shopping opportunities for City residents.
  12. Provide residential and job-generating non-residential land uses in close proximity to each other in order to minimize home-to-work vehicular trip lengths, automobile usage and related air quality impacts.
  13. Provide an integrated, efficient, and safe circulation system for pedestrians, bicyclists, transit and vehicles.

  1. Provide roadway improvements and land use planning that will tie together existing City of Lathrop development east of I-5 and new development west of the freeway.
  2. Establish a logical phasing plan that is designed to assure that each phase of development will include all necessary public improvements required to meet City standards.
  3. Create an opportunity to locate the City of Lathrop civic center and other public and semi-public uses within the central core of the Land Park.
  4. Add value to the existing and future City of Lathrop community and contribute to the establishment of a strong local economic base through (a) job creation; (b) the economic stimulus that comes from the multi-million dollar investment required to develop Land Park and the disposable income of the people who live and work in the plan area; and (c) the local general fund revenues generated by increased property taxes, retail sales taxes, and transient occupancy taxes.
  5. Implement the development program envisioned for Land Park on property that has already been designate for mixed-use urban development by the City of Lathrop General Plan.
  6. To the extent feasible, provide a self-mitigating project, where mitigation measures are incorporated in the project design so as to minimize the project's environmental impacts.
  7. Provide a logical and orderly extension of the City of Lathrop that is compatible with and complements existing and planned land uses within other portions of the City.
  8. Satisfy the City policies, regulations and expectations as defined in the Lathrop General Plan and Municipal Code.
  9. Provide services and infrastructure that meet or exceed City standards and that do not diminish services to existing residents of the City
  10. Enrich the relationship between the City and the San Joaquin River by incorporating the river's edge as a critical component of Land Park parks program.
  11. Contribute to the efforts to make provision for the growing housing needs of the City and the region by encouraging the production of a broad mix of housing types and densities.