About - Oxnard Placemaking, Civic Beauty & Urban Design, Welcome to OxnardRenaissance.org OxnardRenaissance.org focuses on Oxnard placemaking, urban design & civic beauty, planning, and economic development issues. We support infill, incremental, small-scale, walkable, affordable, and market-rate housing, and mixed-use development in downtown Oxnard, neighborhoods surrounding the downtown, and along Oxnard’s main street corridors and civic nodes. Oxnard is not the sleepy farm.