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FROM: HARVEY E. BRAGDONCo IIra
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ••� Costa
DATE: June 9, 1995 Coun�y
SUBJECT: RECONSOLIDATION OF THE COUNTY GENERAL PLAN
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATIONS) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Concur in the need for the County's General Plan to be
reconsolidated and that the scope of this effort will be
limited to corrections of errors, updating of facts, and
bringing prior Board General Plan Decisions into the document.
2 . Direct the County Planning Commission to be the hearing body
to consider the revised plan prior to Board of Supervisors
consideration.
FISCAL IMPACT
This limited program can be financed out of the existing
Departmental budget.
BACKGROUND/REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS
As staff mentioned at the GMEDA Board Workshop last spring, we
would be undertaking a program to reconsolidate the County General
Plan this year. It has been nearly 5 years since the County
General Plan was adopted and there have been substantial amendments
to the plan which are not physically integrated into the plan body.
The Housing Element, adopted in 1992 , has been changed
substantially. Legal challenges have been placed against other
jurisdictions if their general plans become to fragmented. While
we are not in that situation, this program of reconsolidating the
General Plan is a preventative measure to insure w d It get into
that circumstance.
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SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
Contact: Jim Cutler(510/646-2034) ATTESTED L-L, II. 1995
cc: Community Development Department (CDD) PHITL�TCAELOR, CLERK OF
Public Works THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
CAO AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
County Counsel
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Reconsolidation of General Plan
June 9, 1995
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This program is limited in scope to four types of changes. It
will:
• bring prior Board adopted amendments into the plan
document
• correct errors of fact
• update demographic background information found in the
introductory chapters
• correct the land use plan to reflect public ownership
No new policy decisions or policy changes are to be made as part of
this consolidation effort. To do that could open up the effort to
CEQA challenges and would extend beyond the limited budget staff
has to undertake this reconsolidation. Any efforts to include new
policy directives need to be handled by the standard plan amendment
process.
Since this is a reconsolidation effort and no new policy
initiatives are to be included, the public hearing process should
be through the County Planning Commission and then on to the Board
of Supervisors for final determination.
It needs to be recognized that this project is of limited scope and
to be done within the very limited Departmental resources currently
available. New policy considerations need to be handled as through
the normal plan revision effort.