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WRT's Central City Urban Design Guidelines for Sacramento, California received a first place award in the Best Practices category by the Sacramento Valley Section of the APA.

The WRT team authored an update to the architectural and urban design guidelines for Sacramento's central city area. The city is expected to grow steadily over the next 25 years. Like many mature cities, there has been an upsurge in interest in the residential development potential of the downtown. The guidelines regulate the most important features of urban design—building configuration, height limits, parking arrangements, and other considerations—without restricting the expressive potential of each building.

A key feature of the project is the development of residential building prototypes, which are used to test the residential capacity of the central city, as well as illustrate that density is achievable without relying solely on tower development. The potential range of building types varies from 2-story townhouses to 55-story high-rise towers.