TCC Agenda for July 18, 2007

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Item 114 - Resolution on the General Plan

Item 114: TCC Position on the Draft General Plan. TCC to consider the following resolution which is similar to one being offered to CPC for consideration on July 26:

“SENSE OF THE TCC” RESOLUTION ON THE DRAFT GENERAL PLAN OF OCTOBER 2006

WHEREAS, the City of San Diego is in the process of revising its General Plan as required by state law; and

WHEREAS, draft General Plan dated October 2006 is the latest revision made available to the TCC members for review; and

WHEREAS, the TCC has reviewed the current draft in detail over several months, and passed several motions the TCC feels are important changes that are needed to make the General Plan more acceptable to the communities (including the “Bill of Rights” language approved by CPC in May and June 2007 and the street maintenance language approved by CPC in June 2007), but the TCC has not been advised which of these have been or will be included in the Planning Commission draft; and

WHEREAS, it has become clear that the next draft of the General Plan—the version that will be submitted to the Planning Commission—is significantly changed from the October 2006 draft, such that many changes unknown to the TCC have been made to the draft (including very recent changes related to global warming); and

WHEREAS, the draft General Plan is to be reviewed and voted on by the Planning Commission on August 2nd, such that that the TCC’s last opportunity to provide meaningful input to the Planning Commission is the TCC meeting of July 18th; NOW THEREFORE

BE IT RESOLVED, that the TCC cannot be expected to endorse a document that has changed so significantly without first fully understanding the changes that have been introduced; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the TCC remains opposed to a General Plan that compels each neighborhood, and each individual Community Plan, to only permit development that maintains or increases levels of housing; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the TCC requires policy revisions in various elements to make clear that public facilities and infrastructure always must come in advance of, or along with, new infill development or densification; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the TCC recommends the Draft General Plan be eliminated as a paper document and instead issued only in electronic form: as a web-based document, with full hyperlink referencing to any and all requirement source documents (such as references to city council ordinances and public law and state or federal mandates that form the basis of individual policies); and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the TCC requests City staff take the following specific actions:

1. TCC must be given a look at, and sufficient time to review, the General Plan revised draft that will be presented to the Planning Commission, and

2. TCC must be given a “scorecard” update from City staff on the CPC’s change recommendations and their disposition by City staff (whether the changes were agreed to and included, and if agreed to then where the changes actually were made, or whether they were not agreed to and discarded), and

3. TCC requires elimination of the requirement that each neighborhood and each community plan always must maintain or increase housing, and

4. TCC requires policy changes that mandate the provision of public facilities and infrastructure in advance of, or along with, new infill development or densification; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that absent any of the above, the TCC finds itself unable to endorse the October 2006 draft of the General Plan; but when the four numbered actions, above, are taken then TCC will gladly give consideration to offering its endorsement of a Summer 2007 updated General Plan; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the absent completion of the four numbered actions, above, the TCC’s recommendation to the Planning Commission shall be to withhold its recommendation to approve the document as its input to the San Diego City Council.