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FROM: Supervisor Tom Torlakson Contra
Costa
DATE'. August 12, 1986 COurty
SUBJECT: USE OF DAPC PLANS IN UPDATING THE COUNTY GENERAL PLAN
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Refer to the County-wide General Plan
Review Committee the issue of incorporating the Delta Action Plan and
the Delta Waterways Use Program policies into the General Plan
currently being reviewed.
Refer to the Community Development Department to identify
any additional policies in this regard for consideration by the Board
of Supervisors. Both referrals should be accomplished by the summer
of 1987.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: I have served as the Board' s
representative to the Delta Advisory Planning Council (DAPC) since
taking office in 1981. DAPC has spent a considerable amount of time
reviewing the Delta Action Plan and Delta. Waterways Use Program. I
participated in committees which worked on these policy areas.
The goal of these policies is to have coordinated planning
between the five Delta counties of DAPC. To accomplish this goal, it
.is necessary to incorporate as many of these policies as possible into
our general plan and to adopt other elements as special Board of
Supervisor policies for Contra Costa County. Please refer to the
attached report from Chuck Zahn, Community Development Department, on
this subject.
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County Administrator PHIL BA CHELOR. CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
M382/7-83 BY ,DEPUTY
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
TO: SUPERVISOR TOM TORLAKSON
FROM: CHARLES ZAHN, PLANNING COORDINATOR
DATE: JULY 28, 1986
SUBJECT: USE OF DAPC PLANS IN UPDATING THE COUNTY GENERAL PLAN
This is in reply to your memorandum of July 1, 1986 on the use of Delta
Advisory Planning Council plans and policies in the County s General Plan
updating process. The General Plan update program provides an opportunity to
integrate appropriate components of the Delta Action Plan into the County
General Plan.
The Delta Action Plan was developed by DAPC using a .combination of local
monies (county dues) and a federal planning grant. It was substantially based
on Delta City and County General Plans. The Action Plan is used by all five
counties which comprise the DAPC joint powers agency. Some have integrated
the Action Plan with their General Plans while others use the document as a
policy reference. Up to now, Contra Costa County has used the Delta Action
Plan as a reference document forevaluating projects in the Delta Area.
The Delta Action Plan contains several components which are relevant to our
General Plan; these are:
Major findings, such as those identifying the Delta as a unique
region and an integral component of the Bay-Delta Estuarine System.
Delta Policies for Conservation and Development, including those
for protecting agriculture, enhancing recreation, and reducing
hazards.
"Subject" Goals, Objectives, and Recommendations, providing
specific recommendations on agriculture, historic and natural
resources, natural hazards, recreation, commerce and transporta-
tion, and Delta management.
Lists of significant natural and historic areas in the Delta.
Because the Delta Action Plan is now a decade old (it was distributed July 30,
1976), its contents should not be simply carried over into our General Plan
but reviewed 'on an item-by-item basis before being included. Furthermore,
specific items originating in the Delta Action Plan would be included in
different parts of the General Plan (e.g. , Land Use Element, Safety Element,
Conservation Element, Recreation Element) and would have to be modified to fit
their contexts.
'Use of DAPC Plans in Updating Page 2
the County General Plan
It is possible that our review will reveal changes that we would want to have
made to the Delta Action Plan when it is revised.
Ehe;Deltaincluded as an appendix the Delta Waterways Use Program
athe use of waterways, and the ins a i oc n
other facilities in the waterways, to adjoining land use areas. The. Delta
Waterways Use Program was developed by the state with the participation of
DAPC and Delta user groups. DAPC recently updated the Waterways Use Program
with the participation of the State Department of Fish and Game, and
recommended the revised program to its member counties and the state.
Although the program goes beyond the scope of a General Plan to include detail
appropriate to implementation ordinances, its basic policies for waterways use
and categorization of adjoining land uses ought to be valuable contributions
to. a Contra Costa County General Plan program.
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