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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Statement 1988/01/12 Item 16COUNCIL AGENDA STATEMENT • Item 16 Meeting Date 1/12/88 ITEM TITLE: Public Hearing: PCM-88-10 - Consideration of adopting Parts One and Two of the Montgomery Specific Plan Resolution ~.3 ~/ ~ Approving Parts One and Two of the Montgomery Specific Plan SUBMITTED BY: Director of Planning ~`v REVIEWED BY: City Manage (4/5ths Vote: Yes No X ) This item involves consideration of Parts One and Two of the Draft Montgomery Specific Plan, and the Negative Declaration issued on the project. Pursuant to the charge of the City Council, the Planning Department, in conjunction with the Montgomery Planning Committee, has undertaken the preparation of a specific plan for the Montgomery Community. Parts One and Two of the three part Draft Montgomery Specific Plan have now been completed, and are before the City Council for its review and action. Part One provides the foundation or basis for the plan proper. It contains the City planning • survey, evaluation, trends analysis and forecasts. Part Two, the "Plan Proper," sets forth the plan's goals, general objectives, policies, principles, and planning and design proposals. Part Three, which will embody the implementation proposals and the conclusion of the Montgomery Specific Plan, will be prepared subsequent to the adoption of Parts One and Two. An Initial Study IS-88-04M of possible adverse environmental impacts of the project was conducted by the Environmental Review Coordinator, who, on August 21, 1987, issued a Negative Declaration. RECOMMENDATION: That Council: 1. Find that adoption of Parts One and Two of the Draft Montgomery Specific Plan will have no significant environmental impact and adopt the Negative Declaration issued under IS-88-04M. 2. Adopt Parts One and Two of the Draft Montgomery Specific Plan. BOARDS/COMMISSIONS RECOMMENDATION: 1. The Montgomery Planning Committee considered Parts One and Two at its public hearing of September 2, 1987. The Committee approved Parts One and Two unanimously, and recommended that they be adopted by the City Planning Commission and City Council (vote 5-0, one absent, one seat vacant). • Page 2, Item 16 Meeting Date-TJT~7$$ 2. The City Planning Commission, at its meeting of November 4, 1987, unanimously recommended that City Council approve Parts One and Two of the Draft Montgomery Specific Plan. DISCUSSION: 1. Part One of the Draft Montgomery Specific Plan consists of three sections. Section I, the Introduction and City Planning Survey, narrates the planning history of the Montgomery Community and presents an overview of the specific plan. Details of the planning and development of Montgomery's five sub-communities of Castle Park, Otay, Harborside, West Fairfield, Woodlawn Park-East Woodlawn Park, and Broderick Acres are discussed. Section II, the Evaluation, presents the findings of an intensive parcel-by-parcel land use field survey, and the statistics relating to present land use and general economic conditions. Furthermore, visual and functional development patterns and the basic needs of the community are analyzed for both Montgomery at-large, and on a sub-community basis. • Section III, the Trends, Analysis and Forecasts, identifies trends as well as forecasting residential, commercial, and industrial development. Furthermore, it contains forecasts of growth, development, and conservation. 2. Part Two of the Montgomery Specific Plan is fully consistent with the spirit, purpose, and primary goals and objectives of the Chula Vista General Plan, and its text and diagram are designed to methodically express and depict the General Plan at a larger scale, and a finer detail. The goals, objectives, statements proposals of Part Two constitute the short, Part Two--called the Summary- It constitutes the "Plan Proper," or projection of the urban pattern of Mc the City Counci 1 , wi 11 become a cons General Plan. of policy, principles, and design "concept" of the Specific Plan. In -is the heart of the Specific Plan. she blueprint for the improvement and ~tgomery. Part Two, upon adoption by ~ituent component of the Chula Vista 3. The aforementioned text of Part Two of the Montgomery Specific Plan -- "The Plan Proper" -- concludes with the Planning and Design Proposals, which may also be appropriately called "suggestions." The Proposals which are based upon the Plan's goals, objectives, statements of policy, and axioms or city-planning principles, are the "pure planning" features of the Montgomery Specific Plan. They are mental formulations for the orderly growth, developmental, and conservation of the settlement pattern of Montgomery, and are "down-to-earth" recommendations for the pattern's improvement and revitalization. The Proposals are so vital to the Specific Plan that their expression is not confined to textual statements, but are also graphically depicted upon its "Plan Diagram." Page 3, Item 16 Meeting Date~T7~7813 Some of the Plan's more key proposals include the strengthening of Montgomery's single-family dwelling fabric by the lowering of residential densities, and the stressing of residential ownership; the retention and improvement of the Broadway and Third Avenue commercial strips; and the creation of a community core, identified as the third Avenue/Oxford Street Civic-Mercantile Focus; the gradual phase out of heavy industrial uses; the delineation of the Main Street area on the plan diagram as a corridor reserved for research and limited industrial uses; the identification of potential redevelopment areas, library sites, parks, and recreational facilities; and the identification of areas with unique planning problems, which require special study and analysis beyond the scope of the specific plan. 4. During the course of the public hearings held by the Montgomery Planning Committee and the Planning Commission, certain issues arose in reference to the proposed residential densities of East Fairfield and Broderick's Acres, and the gradual phasing out of heavy industrial uses, which are located primarily along Main Street. After receiving public testimony on these issues, and after reviewing and discussing them, both the Montgomery Planning Committee and the Planning Commission agreed that the single-family dwelling fabric of Broderick's Acres and East Fairfield should be conserved and strengthened, and that the heavy industrial uses should be gradually phased out of Montgomery. These decisions are reflected in the goals, objectives, statements of policy, city planning principles, and planning and design proposals of the Draft Pontgomery Specific Plan, as recommended for adoption by both the Committee and the Commission. The Montgomery Planning Committee and the Planning Commission's unanimous support of the plan is based upon their recognition that a strong city planning blueprint, and program of land management, are essential to the progress of Montgomery. CONCLUSION: Although it is fashionable to categorize present-day general plans or specific plans as "goals plans," "policy plans," or even "strategic plans," the Montgomery Specific Plan cannot be readily categorized as either. It is actually a combination of a goals, policy, and regulatory plan, characterized by a cardinal emphasis upon pragmatic, organic proposals which address the changing, built-up environment. These proposals are the essence of the plan, and provide a bridge between the goals, objectives, et cetera and the regulatory framework and provisions of Part Three, which will be submitted for public scrutiny, and hearing, subsequent to the adoption of Parts One and Two. FISCAL IMPACT: The adoption of the Montgomery Specific Plan would not have a substantial fiscal impact, but the implementation of the plan would improve the economy, as well as the physical order of Montgomery and, therefore, should be fiscally beneficial to the City of Chula Vista. • WPC 4466P ~ = .. ~. _. ,