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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRCC AGENDA PK 2002/07/10 COUNCIL INFORMATION MEMORANDUM DATE: July 10, 2002 TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council VIA: David D, Rowlands JL, City Manager FROM: Robert A Leiter, Director of Planning and Building SUBJECT: Proposal for Historic Preservation Strategic Plan Interest in the City's historic preservation program has increased with Council adoption of the Mills Act Program, At the City Council meeting of December 4, 2001 the Council considered the historic designation of the Fischer House. In conjunction with Council discussion on this request, Council members asked staff to review the current status of the City's historic preservation program and to propose amendments if needed. As a result, over the past few months staff has been reviewing the City's current policies and procedures for historic preservation, The Resource Conservation Commission is the City entity charged with considering historic preservation, Therefore, as part of the review of the existing program, our staff met with Charles Bull, RCC chairman, and Pamela Bensoussan, an RCC member with specific knowledge and interest in historic preservation activities. As a follow up to this meeting, our staff met with the RCC to discuss a comprehensive approach to reviewing the City's historic preservation policies, programs, and activities, which would be coordinated with the City's General Plan Update, Under this proposal, which was endorsed by the RCC, an ad hoc committee, made up of representatives of the Resource Conservation Commission, Planning Commission, Design Review Committee, Town Centre Project Area Committee, and Heritage Museum Board, would be formed for the purpose of developing an overall strategic plan for historic preservation, The City has been able to obtain the services of Wayne Donaldson, a consultant with extensive experience in historic preservation programs, to assist in the development of this plan. The costs of consultant services would be covered by the adopted Planning and Building Department budget The ad hoc committee would: conduct an overall evaluation of the existing historic preservation program, determine an appropriate program for the future, and identify key tasks to be performed now and tasks to be incorporated into the General Plan Update. Staff would attend all meetings and would provide administrative and informational support to Task Force and consultant This committee would commence its efforts within the next month, and would conclude its work three to four months later. The goal of the committee would be to develop recommendations of what the City of Chula Vista Historic Preservation Program should be and an action plan for how we can get there. Staff would then prepare a report to City Council setting forth the recommendations of the committee and how they can be accomplished, Historic Preservation Strategic Plan Page 2 Please let me know if you have any questions on this matter, or would like to have this matter discussed at a future City Council meeting. Otherwise, it is our intent to proceed in setting up this ad hoc committee and developing a strategic plan in accordance with the approach outlined above. J:\Planning\Lynncttc\council\ad hoc committee COUNCIL INFORMATION MEMO 3.doc Conservation Banking California, with the support of the US Department of Interior, has developed a new initiative for protecting endangered species and enabling development As a comprehensive "ecosystem" approach, entire natural systems will be protected. This will simultaneously ensure survival of not only threatened and endangered species, but all other interdependent species in the area, This Natural Communities Conservation Planning (NCCP) process requires developers, environmentalists, state and local governmental agencies to voluntarily agree on which specific areas will be preserved and which will be developed, Such certainty is very valuable to both development and environmental interests because it provides predictability on sensitive species issues. Once habitat areas are designated and mapped, developers know they can build outside the preserve even if their land has at risk species on it Environmentalists know biological assessments have taken place and that sufficient land will be set aside in pennanently protected habitats to ensure the viability of all the species inhabiting those areas. BankAmcrica became interested in NCCP because some repossessed properties had important ecological value, We believed that conservation was their highest and best use, However, no easy mechanism existed to achieve that value. BankAmerica, together with several major Southern California landowners and conservation groups, submitted a proposal to the California Resources Agency recommending that a framework be established for Conservation Banking, With required approvals, this concept would allow landowners of all sizes who own ecologically valuable land to place their property in a conservation bank and receive value for doing so. When other parties wish to develop their property but regulatory agencies have imposed conditions requiring them to provide comparable habitat areas as a condition of approval, they may buy "credits" ITom the conservation bank. Conservation banking provides remuneration for landowners who might otherwise have difficulty developing ecologically valuable land, Also, it allows a quicker and easier method of mitigation for developers. And conservation banking enables financing of preservation areas in cases where often the only other alternative is acquisition by a public agency at taxpayer expense, Such purchases are increasingly difficult in this era of fiscal constraints, Conservation groups support it because its use is envisioned mainly where regional biological planning, such as NCCP, has already taken place, Therefore, a conservation bank acquisition fits into a larger species protection plan to which all parties have agreed. For more infonnation on how to create a Conservation Bank, a catalog of active Conservation Banks in California is available online through the California Resources Agency CERES and write to Andy McLeod, Office of the Secretary, The Resources Building, Sacramento, CA 95814, Bank of America, N.A. Member FDIC Equal Housing Lender © 2002 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved. CONSERV ATION AND MITIGATION BANKING Conservation Banking A conservation bank generally provides threatened and endangered species habitat that is permanently protected and managed for its natural resource values. In order to satisfy the legal requirement for mitigation of environmental impacts from a development, a developer can buy habitat credits from a conservation bank, or in the case of wetlands, a mitigation bank, Conservation banks must be approved by the resource agencies, such as the Department ofFish and Game and the U.S, Fish and Wildlife Service. Mitigation Banking Mitigation banking is the same concept as conservation banking, but is specifically for wetland restoration, creation, and enhancement undertaken to compensate for unavoidable wetland losses, Use of mitigation bank credits must occur in advance of development, when the compensation cannot be achieved at the development site or would not be as environmentally beneficial. Mitigation banking helps to consolidate small, fragmented wetland mitigation projects into one large contiguous site which will have a mueh higher wildlife habitat value. Conservation and Mitigation Banking Policies State's Official Policy for Establishing a Conservation Bank Lands Not Acceptable for Conservation and Mitigation Banking Federal Guidance for the Establishment, Use and Operation of Mitigation Bank Conservation and Mitigation Banking Procedures Process for Developing a Conservation Bank Conservation Bank Implementing Agreement Checklist Conservation and Mitigation Banking Agreement Review Process Department ofFish and Game Contacts for ConservationlMitigation Banking Brief Report on Conservation Banking A Catalogue of Conservation Banks in California: Innovative Tools for Natural Resource Management Federal Conservation Banks Page California Environmental Resouces Evaluation System Page Revised: Tuesday, l6-0ct-01 13:50:09 http;l)www,d fg,ca. gov/hcpb/conplanlmi tbank/mitbankshtmJ ~ ,~ ¡g gj E .2 1:'J E ~ .~ ~ :::> '- _ ..c::: ::::. 0 ~ E ~ 0--' D)V) Q) ~ <;\J '- (IJ . :::J U; C'J I1J C\J Q ~ ~ .~ ~ ~ ~ r.:: ¡g ~ '- -§. ii3 !S (/) ~ 'S I1J ~ r.:: C\j .3 ~ :;; ~ C\j lE '::::: c:: ·S QJ :s (i:J QJ r.:: .Q E c:: l) ::J'~ C'J V) (s c: C\j .~ e-~ 11J..c:: '- Ctj ~ Q 5 a 2: ~~ ~ ¡g E æ 5- ~ :~ <;\J C\j:::: . 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