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El Dorado Hills Community Design Standards Open House Wed Sep 30 2026

Special Community Meeting Wed May 6th 6:00PM to 7:30PM

El Dorado Hills Fire Station 85
1050 Wilson Blvd. EDH, CA 95762

All El Dorado Hills residents are invited to participate!

The El Dorado Hills Area Planning Advisory Committee is hosting the El Dorado County Planning Department Long Range Planning open house for the El Dorado Hills Community Design Standards.

This is an opportunity for El Dorado Hills residents to participate and provide feedback for the EDH Community Design Standards project that will help define design standards for commercial, multi-family, and mixed-use projects in El Dorado Hills.

Please stop by and help EDH APAC and other El Dorado Hills residents provide input on what future El Dorado Hills Commercial, Multi-Family, and Mixed-Use Developments will look like.

Exhibits and comment forms will be available for El Dorado Hills residents to provide input in the second draft of the County’s proposed El Dorado Hills Community Design Standards. It only takes a few minutes to provide your feedback.

This process will develop OBJECTIVE design standards and guidelines for multifamily, commercial, and mixed use development in El Dorado Hills (NOT single family home development). With OBJECTIVE design standards and guidelines allows the County to have some allowance of project approval for State Mandated Ministerial housing projects. Mixed use/multifamily development is currently allowed by State law on commercial zoned property, regardless of what a county, or city, allows.

Objective design standards and guidelines will allow for project streamlining as long as a project complies with the design standards. If a proposed State of California Ministerial project does not meet the established Objective Design Standards, then the project has to follow a normal project review process through the County Planning Department.

There are over 50,000 residents in El Dorado Hills, larger than the City of South Lake Tahoe and the community of Cameron Park combined. We are the largest population center in El Dorado County.

Our community needs more than a few dozen members to provide input into our Community Design Standards and Guidelines. This is small opportunity, but an opportunity none the less, for El Dorado Hills to control some small aspect of future development.

Event Details

El Dorado Hills Community Design Standards Open House May 6 2026

Special Community Meeting Wed May 6th 6:00PM to 7:30PM

El Dorado Hills CSD Norm Rowett Pavilion
1021 Harvard Way, EDH, CA 95762

The El Dorado Hills Area Planning Advisory Committee is hosting the El Dorado County Planning Department Long Range Planning open house for the El Dorado Hills Community Design Standards.

This is an opportunity for El Dorado Hills residents to participate and provide feedback for the EDH Community Design Standards project that will help define design standards for commercial, multi-family, and mixed-use projects in El Dorado Hills. 

El Dorado County Long Range Planning Staff Message:

Hold the Date!  On Wednesday, May 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM, County staff, design consultants and members of the El Dorado Hills Area Planning Advisory Committee (APAC) will hold an open house to receive community feedback on the first (Administrative) Draft El Dorado Hills Design Standards and Guidelines (EDH DSG). For details and how to participate, please see the May 6, 2026, open house meeting flyer(PDF, 437KB).

Click here (PDF, 4MB) to view and download a copy of the proposed standards.

For more information, please visit the project webpage.  

DRAFT Copy of Proposed EDH Community Design Standards

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Event Details

Last Call for Community Volunteers to Participate in EDH Design Standards Stakeholder Advisory Team

El Dorado County Long Range Planning Department Is looking for El Dorado Hills residents to volunteer

From the County Long Range Planning Department Announcement

Help Shape the Future of El Dorado Hills!

El Dorado County’s Planning and Building Department is creating new community design standards for the El Dorado Hills Community Region, and we want your input! 

If you live, work, own property, or do building or design work in El Dorado Hills, you’re invited to join our Stakeholder Advisory Team (SAT) — a group of community members working with County staff and consultants to help create these new standards. Click here for information about the El Dorado Hills SAT and how to apply!   

As a reminder, to make sure you are considered, please submit your SAT application as soon as possible as the application period will be closing soon.

For more information and how to get involved, please visit the El Dorado Hills design standards project webpage.

EDH Community Design Standards