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' • ~ Item 10
Meeting Date 10/27/81
ITEM TIT E: Resolution ~~ 6 ~ Adopting Growth Management Policy as an amendment to
the Chula Vista General Plan
SUBMITTEb BY: Director of Planning ~ (4/5ths Vote: Yes No X )
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BACKGROUND
1. The City Planning Commission, on April 22, 1980, by Resolution GPA-80-2, recommended
that t e proposed Growth Management Policies amendment to the Chula Vista General Plan be
adopte by the City Council.
2. The City Council, after several workshops and conferences on the proposed Growth
Manage ent Policy, and growth management in general, endorsed the revised draft Growth
Manage ent Policy on September 1, 1981, and ordered such to be referred to the City
Planni g Commission for public hearing and recommendatory action. The Planning Commission
recons dered the subject matter on September 16, 1981.
3. On September 3, 1981 the Environmental Review Committee recommended that the City
Counci certify EIR-80-1. An executive summary of EIR-80-1 is attached hereto as Exhibit C.
RECOMMENDATION:
Ad~pt a resolution amending the Chula Vista General Plan by the inclusion of a
Growth Management Policy therein.
PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION:
Ad pt the revised draft Growth Management Policy as an amendment to the Land Use Element
of the Chula Vista General Plan. (Exhibit "A" attached to the Planning Commission's
resolu ion contains the text of the Growth Management Policy as recommended by the
Planni g Commission.)
DISCUSSION
1. While the originally proposed Growth Management Policy submitted to the Planning
Commis ion and City Council was primarily a growth phasing plan, the revised draft policy
is sub tantially a goals and policy proposal. The revised draft's emphasis upon generic
substa ce and its avoidance of fine detail give broad discretion to the City Council to
evalua a changing circumstances in reaching decisions on growth management questions.
The dr ft which was approved by the Planning Commission in April, 1980 emphasized the
geogra hically defined development phases and did not provide for the exercise of
broad ouncil discretion.
2. The revised draft policy provides general direction for the orderly growth,
develo ment, and conservation of the Eastern Territories of the Planning Area, and
restat s the City's acceptance of the principles of urban, regional and townscape
planni g as the fundamental guidelines and criteria for the expansion of this municipality's
urban attern.
3. The revised draft policy perpetuates the original plan/s provision that growth
and de elopment shall be paced to the availability of public resources, financing facilities
and se vices.
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P~leeting Date 10/27/81
4 The draft policy is not a rigidly geographical plan, but its text does embody
a cle r and concise test for the developmental suitability of land, which reads:
"It is the intent of this policy that lands develop in a general pattern from
west to east and that undeveloped lands be considered ready for development
only if they are both substantially contiguous with the city limits and with
lands ~rhich already are developed."
5 The text also provides that the Chula Vista Growth Management Policy shall be
revie ed annually in September and October by the Planning Commission and City Council,
respe tively.
6 The Planning Commission made several language changes and additions to the
polic which was before the City Council on September 1, 1981. The changes are not
parti ularly significant and can be readily discerned by a review of Exhibit "B".
Addit ons and deletions from the draft as reviewed by the Council on September 1 are
Indic ted by underlining and lining out, respectively.
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